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MoveOn.org Meet the Candidates virtual TownHall in Pittsboro

By clock on April 8, 2007.

I am thinking about going - this is only about 2 miles from me:

Tuesday, April 10th is our first ever MoveOn Virtual Town Hall meeting with the '08 presidential candidates. (The full list of candidates invited to attend is below.) The topic is Iraq, and we want you to have a front row seat.

You can join other members of your community and tune in via the Internet to hear the top candidates answer questions chosen by MoveOn members. Afterward, you'll have a chance to discuss what you heard, and then vote by email on who will do the best job of bringing our troops home.

Can you attend a town hall meeting in Pittsboro on Tuesday, April 10th?

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The Town Hall will be fun--it'll be totally new, and you'll meet interesting folks from your neighborhood. And hearing the candidates answer questions straight from MoveOn members' mouths will be fascinating. Usually at this stage of the game, pundits and big donors are deciding the race. But this event puts MoveOn members right in the driver's seat.

MoveOn's Virtual Town Hall allows us to hear directly from candidates. But more important, it lets them know what's important to us, and this means progressive perspectives get injected into the debate early. If we want to help shape what issues count in '08, we have to let them know where we stand now.

And the Iraq Town Hall is just the beginning. We'll hold meetings over the next few months on other priority issues: global warming and health care. These are the issues that you all decided are important through our "positive agenda" process, and we want to make certain they are central to the debate over the next two years.

But with the situation in Iraq changing daily and the campaigns gearing up full force, we need to be pressing the candidates about where they stand on Iraq. Can you attend a MoveOn Town Hall meeting next Tuesday in Pittsboro?

MoveOn members voted last week to invite the following candidates to participate in the Iraq Virtual Town Hall Meetings. We'll keep you posted on who accepts our invitation:

* Sen. Joe Biden
* Sen. Hillary Clinton
* Sen. Chris Dodd
* Sen. John Edwards
* Mayor Rudy Giuliani
* Gov. Mike Huckabee
* Rep. Dennis Kucinich
* Sen. John McCain
* Sen. Barack Obama
* Gov. Bill Richardson
* Gov. Mitt Romney
* Gov. Tommy Thompson

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