ONLY DEMOCRATS PARTICIPATING
MARCH
-Mar. 24, 2007 - SEIU/Center
for American Progress Action Fund "New Leadership on Health Care: A Presidential
Forum" at UNLV in Las Vegas, NV.
-Mar.
28, 2007 - Building
and Construction Trades Legislative Conference Presidential Forum at the
Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC.
APRIL
-Apr.
10, 2007 - MoveOn.org "Virtual Town Hall" on Iraq. >
-Apr.
18-21, 2007 - National Action Network's 9th annual convention at the Sheraton
Hotel and Towers in New York, NY.
-Apr.
28-29, 2007 - California Democratic Party Convention at the San Diego Convention
Center in San Diego, CA.
MAY
JUNE
-June
19, 2007 - AFSCME Democratic Presidential Forum moderated by MSNBC's
Chris Matthews, part of AFSCME's 2007 National Leadership Conference, at
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC.
JULY
-July 7, 2007 - MoveOn.org
"Virtual Town Hall" on Global Warming. >
AUGUST
-Aug. 4, 2007 - YearlyKos
Presidential Leadership Forum in Chicago, IL. >
-Aug. 7, 2007 - AFL-CIO
Presidential Candidates Forum at Soldier Field in Chicago, IL. >
-Aug. 9, 2007 - Human Rights
Campaign Foundation and Logo forum on gay issues in Los Angeles, CA. >
-Aug.
2007 - National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation (501c3) and
the National Community Pharmacists Association Foundation (501c3) 2007
Presidential Candidate Forum on Health Care (Democrats) at Des Moines Area
Community College in Ankeny. >
SEPTEMBER
-Sept. 12, 2007 - Yahoo!,
The Huffington Post and Slate online-only Democratic presidential mash-up.
>
-Sept.
20, 2007 - Iowa AARP and Iowa Public Television Democratic Candidate Forum
in Davenport, IA.
>
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
-Dec.
1, 2007 - Iowa Brown & Black Democratic Presidential Candidate Forum
in Des Moines, IA.
JANUARY
-Jan. 15, 2008 - Caucus
of African American Nevadans/Impacto issues forum in Las Vegas, NV.
ONLY REPUBLICANS PARTICIPATING
APRIL
-Apr. 14, 2007 - Republican
Party of Iowa's Lincoln Day Unity Dinner at the Polk County Convention
Complex in Des Moines, IA.
MAY
JUNE
-June 30, 2007 - Presidential
Candidates Forum hosted by Iowans for Tax Relief (ITR) and the Iowa Christian
Alliance (ICA) at the Iowa Events Center at Hy-Vee Hall in Des Moines,
IA. >
JULY
AUGUST
-Aug. 11, 2007 - Iowa
Republican Straw Poll on the Iowa State University campus in Ames.
SEPTEMBER
-Sept. 17, 2007 - Values
Voter Debate at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale,
FL. >
-Sept. 21-23, 2007 - Mackinac
Republican Leadership Conference at the Grand Hotel in Mackinac Island,
MI. >
OCTOBER
-Oct.
4-5, 2007 - Americans for Prosperity's 'Defending the American Dream Summit'
at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC.
-Oct.
19, 2007 - FRC Action's Washington Briefing 2007: Values Voter Summit at
the Hilton Washington in Washington, DC. >
-Oct.
25, 2007 - Iowa AARP and Iowa Public Television Republican Candidate Forum
in Sioux City, IA.
>
BIPARTISAN
PARTICIPATION
(although
sometimes it's just one Republican and many Democrats)
-June 30, 2007 - National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO)'s 2008 Presidential Candidates Forum at its 24th Annual Conference at the Contemporary Resort at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, FL. Format: Minimum of 4 questions – Iraq, education, health care & immigration. The moderator may ask follow up questions. After 13 minutes of Q&A’s, 2-minute closing statement.
-July 12, 2007 - NAACP at the 98th NAACP National Convention at Cobo Hall in Detroit, MI.
-Sept. 21, 2007 - NRA Celebration of American Values conference at the Capitol Hilton in Washington, DC. >
-Dec. 1, 2007 - "The Heartland Candidate Forum – A Conversation with Real People on Real Issues," cosponsored by coalition of over two dozen community organizations including Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, at Hy-Vee Hall in Des Moines, IA.
DID THIS HAPPEN?
-June 7, 2007 - 100 Black
Men Inc. Presidential Candidates' Town Hall Meeting at the Paris Las Vegas
Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. >
Quotable: "I urge...that
the parties in the key primary states early on will come together to have
bipartisan events. Nothing will take more poison out of the system
than requiring the candidates to be in the same room with partisans from
both sides because you cannot biologically be as vicious and as nasty as
the current system if you're face to face..." - Newt Gingrich during "Lincoln
at Cooper Union" dialogue, Feb. 28, 2007.
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