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Attn Clinton, Obama: Fighting Foreclosure and Abandonment Forum” as important if not more important than debate


I absolutely mean that.  Because if you want to see where the rubber meets the road, in a city that’s labeled and lambasted as being so wretched by so many different measures (none which I really like or believe in anyway), and if you want to win the support and votes and hopes of these people we call Ohioans, you get yourself here:

The morning after next week’s Democratic Presidential debate at CSU, Cleveland City Council is asking the Presidential candidates to send senior policy staffers to City Hall for a “Fighting Foreclosure and Abandonment Forum”.

The event, set for 10 am to 1 am next Thursday in City Council Chambers, offers the candidates’ program-writers (and media in town for the debate) an unprecedented first-hand picture of the Foreclosure Crisis in Cuyahoga County, the many ways in which the local community is fighting back, and a comprehensive set of proposals for Federal action to make that fight easier.

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The Forum is being pitched to national as well as local media, and a live end-to-end webcast is planned. Of course bloggers are very welcome. Wifi access is available in the Council Chambers.

I’m working with Council and the Foreclosure Strategy Group to help organize community testimony and promote Web coverage. Feel free to contact me with any ideas or questions.

Many thanks to Bill Callahan.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:27 pm February 20th, 2008 in 'Roots News, Announcements, Barack Obama, Campaigning, Cleveland+, Economy, Government, Hillary Clinton, Media, Ohio, Politics, Primary, WH2008 

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