McCain Passes the Mic to ONE’s Bartlett…Again.
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Last night I went to Rindge, NH, with some ONE members wearing ONE shirts and ONE bands to help represent the world’s poorest people during a town hall meeting with Sen. McCain.
I raised my hand to ask a question about malaria but when Sen. McCain saw my shirt, he asked me to talk about the ONE Campaign!
After talking about the 2.4 million member movement that ONE is, I thanked Sen. McCain for his support of the FRESH Act that would help reform the wasteful government payments in the Farm Bill that end up devastating small local farms and African farmers. I then spoke about US efforts to fight malaria, something that Bill Gates himself urged all the candidates to support and expand. Sen. McCain said he would support those efforts, and then went on to ask me to talk about the importance of clean water in the developing world.
Check it out in the video above.
-Matthew Bartlett, ONE Regional Organizer
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