Reply #9: Kerry to visit crime scene

[Algorem]

http://www.cleveland.com/weblogs/openers/index.ssf?/mtlogs/cleve_openers/archives/2006_03.html#124334


It’s that time of year when colleges jockey to line up big-names to give their commencement addresses. On the political front, Kenyon College has landed the most prominent so far: former Democratic presidential candidate and Massachusetts Senator John Kerry. He speaks May 20.

The senior class invited Kerry to speak as a way of highlighting problems students faced on Election Day in the village of Gambier. Their experience made national news because some students had to wait nine hours to cast their ballots. The polls in Gambier didn't close until nearly 4:00 a.m., making the village community center the last voting precinct in the Eastern time zone to shut its doors.

--Mark Naymik






http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1966

http://www.kenyon.edu/x30859.xml

http://kenyondemocrats.blogspot.com/

http://www.kenyoncollegian.com/media/paper821/news/2006/03/02/News/Serendipity.Brings.Kerry.To.Kenyon-1652855.shtml?norewrite200603241219&sourcedomain=www.kenyoncollegian.com

http://kerry.senate.gov/v3/cfm/record.cfm?id=251697






Sen. Kerry comes calling

By Tony Cook
Post staff reporter

http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060314/NEWS01/603140353


U.S. Sen. John Kerry stopped in Cincinnati Monday for the first time since southwest Ohio helped swing the election for President Bush in 2004.

Kerry denied that his first trip to the battleground state might be related to another run for president in 2008, but refused to rule out the possibility.

"It's way too early" to decide, the Massachusetts Democrat said.

He initiated the trip to meet with supporters and his Cincinnati steering committee from the 2004 election, said spokeswoman April Boyd...