The Epitome of Young America
May 28th, 2008 at 4:25 pm | posted by Josh Chernila, ONE Online Communities Coordinator
Yesterday, I attended John McCain’s speech at the University of Denver. I was accompanied by two other ONE members, Matthew McAllister and Lydia Van Vleet. Before the speech, we spread the word about ONE with those sitting around us. It was great to share information about an organization that we are so passionate about and it was awesome to see the people we talked to show their support and thank us for what we were doing.
An hour and half later, after speaking with several campaign organizers and state senators about ONE, it was time for the speech. Senator McCain walked out and immediately recognized us in our ONE shirts. He stopped to thank us for coming as he shook our hands. Before he started his speech, he took a moment to recognize us as he said: “As I always do, I’d like to recognize our young people from the organization called ONE […] the epitome of what young America is all about.” (Link to clip on CNN.) On his way out, McCain stopped to thank us for coming. Overall, it was a great experience and I was proud to represent the ONE Campaign.
-Allie Mills, ONE CU-Boulder and Denver ONE
P.S.: This morning we were pleasantly surprised to see the picture above on the front page of the Denver Post. Apparently the Associated Press passed the picture around and a number of papers including the Denver Post and the Washington Post picked it up.
May 28th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Is Sen. McCain going to follow up his enthusiastic response to ONE members in his audience with a co-sponsorship of PEPFAR’s re-authorization and, in the spirt of “going on the record” in his support of ONE, will McCain be so gracious as to sign on to the Lugar-Sununu letter?
That is all that is really important in the long run because those actions are what will keep African people on their ARV’s and out of their graves.
My friends, the fight for PEPFAR boils down to that ONE thought.
I hope that we don’t lose sight of our goal in the Presidential limelight.
I REMAIN….ALWAYS FOREVER, ONE - debbie
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