Our effort was featured in the Washington Post today!!!!
Published August 29, 2007 @ 10:07AM PT
Debating in New OrleansA fitting backdrop for the candidates to discuss America's future
A great article explaining why it's a good idea to bring one of the presidential debates to New Orleans was featured in today's Washington Post editorials, page A16.
The Post reads, "New Orleans meets the minimum yet substantial standards for host cities -- adequate facilities, public support and the like. The Republican National Convention was held there in 1988. The Super Bowl has been played there nine times, most recently in 2002. Traditionally, the commission has chosen college campuses for the debates as a way of getting students intimately involved in the political process. Because Dillard, Loyola, Tulane and Xavier universities are still coping with Katrina-related damage, they have banded together on this bid with the nonprofit group Women of the Storm and would host the presidential debate at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on the banks of the Mississippi. Foundation support to fund the event has been secured. Hosting one of the debates would be an enormous psychological boost for New Orleans."
Read the full article at washingtonpost.com
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