ONE Launches ONE Vote ‘08

Initiative to Engage Presidential Candidates On Global Health and Extreme Poverty

Washington, DC, June 5, 2007 – ONE is launching ONE Vote ’08, an unprecedented non-partisan high-tech, high energy campaign to mobilize voters and engage U.S. presidential candidates to make the fight against global poverty and disease a key foreign policy and security issue at the 2008 ballot box.

Two former Senate Majority Leaders – Senators Bill Frist and Tom Daschle – are co-chairing ONE Vote ’08 and will travel the country talking with candidates and voters about America’s role in the world and what the next president can do to save lives and secure our future.

ONE Vote ’08: Saving Lives, Securing our Future brings together a powerful alliance, including: bi-partisan leaders, top military commanders, political strategists, the nation’s most influential faith leaders and ONE’s powerful coalition of millions of informed, active and engaged grassroots supporters and over 100 of the nation’s leading relief, humanitarian, religious and advocacy organizations.

WHO:	Bill Frist, former Senate Republican Majority Leader Tom Daschle, former Senate Democratic Majority Leader General James L. Jones, (ret.) USMC, former Supreme Allied Commander Europe; Current President & CEO, Institute for 21st Century Energy, US Chamber of Commerce [invited] Susan McCue, President & CEO of ONE Jack Oliver, GOP Strategist and co-chair of ONE, Ashley Judd, actress and humanitarian Brian McLaren, Pastor, named by TIME magazine one of the 25 most influential evangelicals in America Karen Sichinga, nurse, Churches Health Association of Zambia (CHAZ), Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
WHEN:	Monday, June 11, 2007 Event begins at 11:15 a.m., doors open at 10:45 a.m.
WHERE:	St. Mark's Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill 118 Third Street, SE, Washington DC 20003 (Behind the Library of Congress)
ETC:	The African Children’s Choir, as seen recently on American Idol’s “Idol Gives Back” ONE Vote ’08 Video, featuring Bono, Matt Damon, Tom Brady and others ONE Vote ’08 State Supporters, from Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada will also be participating via satellite
RSVP:	To Sarah CrouthersSarah@one.org or (202) 552-4986

ONE Vote ’08: Saving Lives, Securing our Future is an unprecedented non-partisan campaign to engage and energize U.S. presidential candidates on issues of extreme poverty and global health, bringing high visibility for these issues into the U.S. political arena.