NEWS RELEASE
Contact:
Kelly Leon
VP for Communications & Community Relations
513-621-4400 ext 113
513-235-3836 (cell)
kleon@3cdc.org
Date: 10 July 2008
FOUNTAIN SQUARE VIEWING PARTIES FOR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATATES OBAMA AND MCCAIN
NAACP Convention Speeches will be carried live on Giant LED Board
Cincinnati’s Duke Energy Convention Center will be packed next week when presumed Democratic and Republican presidential candidates Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain address members of the 99th Annual NAACP Convention.
Most of us will not have access to the convention center, but all of us can be part of this historic moment in Cincinnati and presidential history. Speeches by the candidates will be broadcast live on Fountain Square. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend.
Obama is scheduled to speak Monday, July 14, at 8 p.m. McCain is scheduled to speak on Wednesday, July 16, sometime between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.
Local Republican and Democratic party officials as well as local Obama and McCain campaign leaders are expected to be on the Square as part of a “viewing party” to watch the speeches. Local NBC affiliate, WLWT-TV, Channel 5, has indicated it will pre-empt regular programming at the time of the speeches and carry them live, allowing them to be broadcast on Fountain Square.
Parking is available in the Fountain Square Garage for $4 after 4 p.m.
The NAACP’s 99th Annual Convention begins Saturday, July 12, and runs through Thursday, July 17. About 8,000 NAACP members, delegates and visitors are expected to attend the conference, themed “Power, Justice, Freedom, Vote.”
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