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During McCain's Townhall, Obama's Field Team Will Launch Bus Tour Down The Street
PHOENIX, AZ -- At the same time and less than a mile away from former presidential candidate John McCain's upcoming health care town hall meeting, Organizing for America (President Barack Obama's field team) will be launching its "Let's Get It Done" National Reform Health Care Bus Tour.
The McCain town hall begins at 5:30 PM, and the OFA bus tour kickoff rally begins at 6:30 PM.
The bus tour is slated to travel across the country over the next couple of weeks combating the myths surrounding the current health care reform package. It is the latest in a series of hard-hitting public relations campaigns from Organizing for America (OFA), the president's former campaign arm.
The stated mission of the National Reform Health Care Bus Tour is to support the President's three goals for health care reform:
- Reducing rising health care costs
- Guaranteeing patients the right to choose their health care plan and their doctors
- Ensuring quality, affordable health care is available for all Americans
The McCain town hall begins at 5:30 PM, and the OFA(Obama For America) bus tour kickoff rally begins at 6:30 PM.
Both events are within 0.8 miles of each other in downtown Phoenix (see the map below). Both events are free and open to the public, and tickets are not required. Admission will be on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Point A is the location of McCain's town hall and point B is the location of OFA's launch for its National Reform Health Care Bus Tour.
and if you can help, or know anything about OFA staffing in Arizona:
Both the White House and Organizing for America seem to be heavily focusing on Arizona. President Obama has visited Arizona three times this year -- in the spring to talk about the foreclosure crisis, in May to deliver the Arizona State University commencement rally and last week to address the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW). Organizing for America has been working to heavily staff Arizona with a State Director, Field Director, Deputy Field Director and Regional Field Directors.
Events that have been posted by various OFA local staffers are:
Wed, Aug 26 - Phoenix (IBEW Hall) 5808 N. 7th St.
Phoenix, AZ 85014, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Thurs, Aug 27 - Albuquerque (National Hispanic Cultural Center) (cant find address or times, yet)
Fri, Aug 28 - Denver (Tivoli Commons, Auraria Campus) (can't fifnd address or times, yet)
Appreciation to Dawn Teo, Arizona political blogger who has been posting this. And she has updates at her huffington post page, and her twitter @dawnteo
In other Arizona news, at a health care town hall this weekend, Rep. Trent Franks (R-Arizona) said he might file a lawsuit to have the president release his birth certificate.
Mohave Daily News reports:
[N]umerous speakers question[ed] Obama's birth certificate and why there wasn't an investigation into whether he is a naturalized citizen. One woman said a newspaper announcement of his birth in Hawaii was not sufficient. Another asked how he could have a passport without a birth certificate.
Franks said there was not enough evidence that Obama is not an American citizen. He did say there was a lot of conflicting evidence of Obama's citizenship and that he was considering filing a lawsuit, the only congressman to do so. Franks asked why the president did not simply produce a birth certificate.
The Washington Independent's Dave Weigel points out that Franks' bold move is particularly surprising given that Franks has previously made a clear statement to guerilla video-blogger Mike Stark that the president was born in the United States and had a valid birth certificate.
Rep. Franks was a sponsor of the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act in 2004.