MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Will Moderate AFSCME Presidential Forum

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.afscme.org/press/14750.cfm

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Thursday, May 24, 2007
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Will Moderate AFSCME Presidential Forum

Democratic Presidential Candidates to Meet with 2,000 AFSCME Activists in Washington, D.C., on June 19

AFSCME will host a Democratic Presidential Forum as part of its 2007 National Leadership Conference on Tuesday morning, June 19, 2007, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, from 8:00 until 10:45 a.m. The event will be moderated by Chris Matthews, MSNBC Election Anchor and host of MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews.”

More than 2,000 AFSCME members and retirees from around the United States will attend this Democratic Presidential Forum, the second AFSCME has sponsored in 2007. In February, the 1.4- million-member union held the nation’s first presidential forum of the 2008 election cycle in Carson City, Nevada.

Confirmed candidates for the June 19 event include U.S. Senator Joseph R. Biden, U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, former U.S. Senator John Edwards, U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich, U.S. Senator Barack Obama and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.

The AFSCME Democratic Presidential Forum is open to the press, and members of the media may pre-register for credentials online at www.afscme.org/credentials.
WHO: American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
WHAT: AFSCME Democratic Presidential Forum
Moderated by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews
WHEN: Tuesday morning, June 19, 2007
8:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
WHERE: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
2660 Woodley Road, N.W.
Washington, DC 20008

[Connie_Corleone]

1. Chris Matthews. Feh.

It'll probably be as bad as the first debate.

[Rydz777]

2. Tweety is on a roll. n/t/

[Egnever]

3. Lovely

Guess I'll have to grind my teeth through that one too.