With Five Days To Go, Clinton Urges Minnesotans To Get Out The Vote For Obama, Franken
Posted in From the Trail, Press Releases on October 30th, 2008
PRESIDENT CLINTON VISITS MINNESOTA TO RALLY FOR CHANGE
With Five Days To Go, Clinton Urges Minnesotans To Get Out The Vote For Obama, Franken
SAINT PAUL [10/30/08] - At a packed rally at the Minneapolis Convention Center tonight, President Bill Clinton urged an enthusiastic crowd to work hard over the remaining five days in the campaign to elect Barack Obama and Al Franken.
Organizers estimated that 4000 people attended the event.
Clinton’s appearance is just the latest in a series of high-profile events to build excitement and momentum for the Obama-Franken coordinated Get-Out-The-Vote effort, the largest such grassroots campaign in Minnesota history.
President Bill Clinton:
“The change we need starts with electing Barack Obama president of the United States. But it’s not complete unless Barack has a Senate he can rely on to work with him, instead of just blocking his agenda — and that means we need to pull together and elect Al Franken. Al understands that you grow the economy by investing in the middle class and putting working people first. And he’ll work with President Obama to make that happen.”
Al Franken:
“It is an honor to have President Clinton joining us today. Under his administration, we created jobs because our government understood that the middle class is the engine of our economy. With Barack Obama in the White House, I’ll work with Amy Klobuchar in the Senate to make sure that we get back to focusing on the middle class again.”
Obama’s Minnesota state director, Jeff Blodgett:
“Under President Clinton, our nation lived through a time of great economic prosperity. But the last eight years has seen failed economic policies and the onset of an economic crisis. With a President Barack Obama and a Senator Al Franken, we’ll finally have the steady leadership we need to get a handle on this crisis, strengthen the middle class and cut taxes for 95 percent of working families and 98 percent of small businesses.”
