Wednesday, Sen. McCain returned to NH to hold a town hall meeting and thank the people of New Hampshire. ONE Vote ‘08 members made it out on the trail one more time for help raise our voices for the poorest people on Earth. We had ONE members in the front rows, in the balcony, and a few even on stage.

As soon as Sen. McCain came on stage he noticed us in our ONE shirts and thanked us for being there and he even had ONE’s Marine Michael Castaldo stand and recognized him in front of everyone.

After a few questions, Sen. McCain spoke about ONE and had the microphone passed to Michael. Michael spoke about ONE and mentioned NH’s Senator Sununu’s efforts to restore and secure billions to the International Affairs Budget. Check it out:

As the town hall ended, I was able to speak directly with Sen. Joe Lieberman and told him about the Biden-Lugar Amendment to restore 4.1 billion dollars of critical life saving funds to the Budget. He told me that he would support it and to count him in. (The amendment passed, with his vote, at 1 a.m. today.)

And as Sen. McCain made his way to his campaign bus, ONE member Emerson Lennon was able to make it through the crowd to reach him right before he took off.

-Matthew Bartlett