On Thursday, Mayor Giuliani came through a country store in Nashua, New Hampshire. I caught up with him with a few ONE members to talk about US efforts to fight global poverty and disease.

After giving a quick speech, Rudy made his way through the crowd to our group of ONE members. I told him that President Bush has been a leader in the fight against global AIDS in Africa and I asked him, if elected President, if he would help poor African farmers the chance to trade their way out of poverty. He said that he stands behind that effort 100%. He said that he recognized ONE and told everyone how much respect and admiration that he has for the organization.

Even though it was a busy event, Mayor Giuliani took a moment to pose with 2 ONE members before he got on his campaign bus. He reiterated to the group and the small press corp how much he admired the ONE Campaign and the work we are doing.

Later in the week, Mayor Giuliani ran into more ONE members in Manchester and spoke with them about the importance of our issues and how much he enjoys seeing ONE members on the campaign trail. ONE member Neil thanked the Mayor and told him that he would see more of us along the way.

Fighting global poverty and disease is not an issue that one party owns – for our nation to truly live up to our values and make poverty history, it will take an American effort. From the activist on Main Street, to the halls of DC and on to the White House – ONE Vote ‘08 is the grassroots movement of people that will save lives and help make a better and safer world for everyone.

-Matthew Bartlett, ONE Regional Organizer