John Kerry holding event at Faneiul Hall 7/31 about health care

[beachmom]

http://blog.hcfama.org/?p=477

Text of the invitation:

On July 31, I hope you’ll join me to wade into a debate that underscores everything that’s at stake here at home — the struggle for health care that works for everybody. Few problems in our country have remained more intransigent, or have found less political leadership willing to tackle them, than health care. While Washington remains cautious, the problem gets worse. Over the last six years, six million more Americans have joined the ranks of the uninsured. Right now there are more than 46 million people uninsured in this country, including 11 million children. In the last five years health insurance premiums have gone up 73 percent. Health care costs for a family of four now cost more than a minimum wage worker earns in a year.

Health care related costs are the number one cause of personal bankruptcy, and for millions of Americans with care, the costs are going through the roof while the benefits keep getting squeezed. We’ve gone from an economy where our parents could count on a job coming with health care to an economy where many companies that do provide health care struggle to remain competitive while other big companies are deciding not to provide health care at all. We can’t afford to tinker around the edges. We need to take the health care issue head-on.

Join me at noon on July 31 at Faneuil Hall so we can jumpstart the dialogue we need to have about health care in America. Please arrive by 11:30 a.m. Tickets are free. Join the discussion: RSVP to attend on July 31.

Faneuil Hall is the birthplace of American democracy — the place where the big issues have been confronted, not avoided. That’s why I’m returning to Faneuil Hall to talk about health care. Your support and encouragement for our shared vision of a stronger America is critical. We need to make it clear that we won’t allow Washington or Wall Street to ignore the health care crisis any longer. Thank you, and I look forward to seeing you on Monday, July 31.

Sincerely,
John Kerry

The RSVP link doesn't work. Anyone have it? It is supposedly on jk.com. Which by the way doesn't have any events listed. Ahem.

[TayTay]

1. What?

Ah, that might be from 2006.

[WildEyedLiberal]

3. Heh, I remember working that event

I also remember some other people liveblogging it ;)

[TayTay]

2. Ah, this is not happening.

That event occurred on 7/31/06. (Sometimes old stuff gets posted when databases are being updated. Used to happen occasionally when I worked for a news company.)

HOWEVER, Senator Kerry is giving a major address on Foreign Policy tomorrow at The Center for American Progress Action Fund
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/events/2008/07/senkerry.html

Senator Kerry: A New Approach to Fighting Terrorism

July 31, 2008, 9:00am – 10:00am

Introduction by:

John Podesta, President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for American Progress Action Fund

Distinguished Speaker:

Senator John Kerry (D-MA)

Five years after Donald Rumsfeld asked whether we are capturing and killing more terrorists than we are creating, the answer remains deeply uncertain and troubling. Global terrorist attacks are near historic highs, and this month Secretary Gates acknowledged that we cannot capture and kill our way to victory over the terrorists. We need a new approach to this fight, one that emphasizes stopping the breeding of future terrorists as much as eliminating the current ones.

Drawing on insights from his recent trips to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Middle East, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) will discuss a different framework for the "war on terror", a global counterinsurgency campaign that uses all elements of U.S. national power to address this threat more effectively. Please join the Center for American Progress Action Fund for this scintillating discussion. for American Progress

Video will be available later at that website. Hey, who knows, C-Span might even tape it.

[wisteria]

4. Ah, the good old days before ...well you know. I remember how well attended it was.

Now he has a joker named O'Reilly running against him who isn't qualified to even lick clean Kerry's shoes. I wouldn't be surprised if this turd isn't working on behalf of Repubs who are desperate to get rid of Kerry. Anyone supporting O'Reilly can't give a damn about Massachusetts.