FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
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CONTACT:
Jenni Engebretsen - DNCC
Jenny Backus - OFA
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THE
2008 CONVENTION:
TUESDAY, AUGUST 26th – RENEWING AMERICA'S PROMISE
Key Speakers on the Economy to Include Governors Napolitano, Patrick,
Rendell, Schweitzer, Sebelius & Strickland;
Senator Bob Casey, Jr. & Federico Peña
DENVER – With millions of Americans
struggling to get by, the Democratic National Convention Committee
(DNCC) and the Obama for America Campaign announced today that some of
America’s strongest leaders on the economy and energy will speak about
how to renew America’s promise on Tuesday night of the
Convention. America’s top Governors, Senators and a former
Secretary of Energy and Transportation will echo Barack Obama’s call
for a new economy with new energy.
Tuesday night’s featured speakers
include Convention Co-Chair Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius and
Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, both early supporters of
Barack Obama, who will outline his detailed economic plan to grow the
economy, create jobs, restore fairness and expand opportunity.
Governors Ted Strickland of Ohio and
Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania will discuss how the failed
policies of the last eight years have betrayed our values and left an
economy out of balance.
Barack Obama believes you can’t have a strong
economy when you have a weak middle class, and speakers like Senator
Bob Casey, Jr. of Pennsylvania and Governor Deval Patrick of
Massachusetts will share how Obama’s policies have been
directly shaped by the people he has met as he traveled the country.
Building on Obama’s New Economy with New
Energy message, Governor Brian Schweitzer of Montana and
Federico Peña, former Mayor of Denver
and Secretary of both Energy and Transportation, will speak
about the nexus between energy and the economy and highlight new and
innovative policies to help working families in rural, urban and
suburban communities.
As announced earlier this week, Mark
Warner, former Governor of Virginia, will deliver the
Convention’s keynote address, and Senator Hillary Clinton,
who is a champion for working families and one of the most effective
and empathetic voices in the country today, will be the headline
prime-time speaker on Tuesday night.
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