inauguration: A 5 year old's request for a T-Shirt results in 4 Busloads and Over 200 people heading off to Washington DC!
- 01/18/09 08:04 AM
How can the simple request of a 5 year old cause so much action you might ask?Last summer Javion McClain was attending a Braves game in Atlanta with his family and he asked to purchase a souvenir. A ballcap maybe? A play tomahawk? No. He wanted an Obama T-Shirt that read "Tell your Mama to vote for Obama!" Unfortunately they didn't have one in his size, but his interest in the Obama campain only increased after that. Dad, Troy, promised his sons that if Obama won he would take them to Washington DC for the Inauguration. Well November 4, 2008 is history. Troy told … (7 comments)
inauguration: Dream of Attending the Historic Inauguration of Barak Obama comes TRUE for lucky High School Senior!
- 01/14/09 02:45 AM
US Representative Jim Cooper, from Nashville TN, like all US Congressmen received tickets to the Barak Obama Inauguration to hand out as he so chose. He had over 6000 requests for tickets but decided to give 198 to leaders in the African-American community, College Students, and to volunteers of the Obama campaign. Others were won in a lottery. Ted Helm, a Rotary Club member with Jim Cooper, also donated round-trip airfare and hotel accommodations to one lucky winner. Quincy Robinson, a senior at Martin Luther King High School learned Monday evening, at a gathering to announce the winners of the tickets, that he … (6 comments)
How can the simple request of a 5 year old cause so much action you might ask?Last summer Javion McClain was attending a Braves game in Atlanta with his family and he asked to purchase a souvenir. A ballcap maybe? A play tomahawk? No. He wanted an Obama T-Shirt that read "Tell your Mama to vote for Obama!" Unfortunately they didn't have one in his size, but his interest in the Obama campain only increased after that.
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