| GOP Convention Plans Change, Party on Hold |
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| Written by Melanie Morgan | |
| Sunday, 31 August 2008 | |
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Time for Republicans to get crackin' ...the Democrats are activating email lists. I am ready to jump a jet to Minneapolis and start broadcasting live relief fund-raising efforts on the web, if they need me.
ST. PAUL — Plans for the Republican National Convention were in jeopardy on Sunday as the presumptive Republican nominee, Senator John McCain, announced that the thrust of the convention would change “from a party event to a call to the nation for action” to help residents of the Gulf Coast affected by the approaching Hurricane Gustav. Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, said in Ohio on Sunday that he had no plans to travel to the Gulf Coast because he did not want to get in the way of emergency efforts there. Mr. Obama, speaking to reporters after leaving services at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Lima, Ohio, said his campaign would mobilize its giant e-mail list of supporters to encourage them to volunteer or send contributions as soon as the impact of Hurricane Gustav becomes known.
“We can activate an e-mail list of a couple million people who want to give back,” Mr. Obama told reporters. “I think we can get tons of volunteers to travel down there if it becomes necessary.” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/us/politics/01repubsday.html?ref=us |
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