http://www.thetandd.com/articles/2006/10/15/news/doc4531b0515f181034426832.txtJohn Kerry to speak at SCSUBy T&D Staff
Sunday, October 15, 2006
U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) is scheduled to visit and speak to the South Carolina State University Young Democrats Club Friday, October 20, as part of a “Get out the Vote” rally.
The 2004 and potential 2008 presidential candidate will speak and bring his message of “Keeping America’s Promise” at 10:45 a.m. in the Dr. Barbara A. Vaughan Recital Hall at the Fine Arts Building.
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Orangeburg County Democratic Party chairwoman Betty Henderson said the arrival of someone of the caliber of Kerry to Orangeburg reveals the importance of this election year.
“The stakes are very high and when the stakes are high you call in the top gun,” Henderson said. “It is going to do a lot of good and it is a great event to have someone that powerful keeping the American promise coming to Orangeburg to speak to us and to help us to rally to get the vote out on November 7.”
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Henderson said she foresees the event as giving encouragement to Orangeburg Democrats. Kerry received about 66 percent of the vote in Orangeburg County in 2004 though he lost South Carolina to George W. Bush.
This is excellent. SC State is an historically African American university, and as you'll note, Orangeburg Co. (in which SCSU is located) went heavily for Kerry in '04. Orangeburg is also close to Columbia, so hopefully this will get some play in The State newspaper and on teevee stations out of Columbia.
On edit: I love how the Orangeburg Co. Democratic Party Chairwoman called Kerry the party's "top gun". I agree with you on that one Betty! ;)
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