On Sunday, Gov. Tim Pawlenty came to New Hampshire for a BBQ in Dover. Gov. Pawlenty has seen ONE many times on the campaign trail when he was in NH for Sen. McCain and even made MN a State of ONE back in August of 2008.

I was able to speak with Gov. Pawlenty in Dover, and he immediatly recognized me in my ONE shirt, and posed for a quick picture. We talked about ONE, our efforts in NH and the over 2 million proud Americans across the country who have signed onto being a ONE member.

As candidates, politicans, and other elected leaders come to New Hampshire, they will continue to see and hear from ONE members all across the state, just like Newt did the other day. We will continue to celebrate our nation’s efforts to fight global disease and extreme abject poverty in the poorest places on Earth, and encourage our leaders, and future leaders, to do even more and stand with those that are taking a stand in their own future and economic development. We help represent a fresh parternship between America and new, young, responsible, but deeply impoverished democracies in Africa. Our efforts to save lives in Africa keep America strong, both morally and in a strategic national security imperative. And with greater economic development, we look to the economic opportunities of greater trade and and business with the world’s poorest countries and tapping into what Bill Gates called the “untapped purchasing power” of the developing world.

-Matt Flanders, ONE New Hampshire