Last week ONE volunteer Rafael Batista bumped into Florida’s Governor, Charlie Crist while on a college tour in Tallahassee. Rafael, who is also the President of the Pembroke Pines Charter High School ONE Club, took the opportunity to stop Governor Crist for a quick chat about ONE and a photo!

-Sara Paterni

South Florida ONE volunteers were hot on the campaign trail yesterday, representing ONE at back-to-back rallies for Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama.

In the morning we went to the Everglades Lumberyard in Miami to hear Senator McCain speak. He was accompanied by fellow Republicans Governor Charlie Crist, Representatives Mario Diaz-Balart and Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Florida’s former Governor and current ONE Vote ’08 Co-Chair, Jeb Bush.

Just a few hours later Senators Obama and Biden held a campaign rally at the Bank Atlantic Center in Fort Lauderdale. Just when we thought we were not going to be able to get in, the security guards let us through and we found great seats just behind the stage.

With the election right around the corner, ONE volunteers are working harder than ever to maintain their strong presence on the campaign trail in Florida and to show the candidates that regardless of party affiliation, fighting global disease and extreme poverty must be a priority in the next administration.

-Sara Paterni

As Super Tuesday has now passed, ONE Vote ‘08 will still be on the campaign trail to make sure that the next president of the United States knows that more than 2 million ONE members – Republicans and Democrats – want our country to end deaths from malaria, reverse the deadly HIV/AIDS emergency crisis, fight hunger and make extreme, stupid poverty…history.

There have been so many, many, great ONE moments where ONE members have taken to the trail to use their voice for the poorest people in the world…and we are not done yet.

Check out a few more photos from FL where ONE Vote ‘08 sprang into action and hit the trail in the days leading up to the primary.

-Matthew Bartlett