McCain to hold townhall Thursday night in St. Paul

Posted at 4:35 PM on June 18, 2008 by Tom Scheck (1 Comments)

The event will be at the Landmark center:

John McCain Participates in 2008 Presidential Town Hall Meeting

ARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator John McCain's presidential campaign today announced that John McCain will participate in the second 2008 Presidential Town Hall Meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota on Thursday, June 19th. Thursday, June 19, 2008 ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA

WHO: John McCain

WHAT: 2008 Presidential Town Hall Meeting *Please Note -- This is a pre-ticketed event with undecided voters.

WHEN: Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. CDT

WHERE: Landmark Center Musser Cortile 75 West Fifth Street St. Paul, Minnesota 55102

**The previously scheduled morning town hall meeting for Thursday, June 19th in Eagan, Minnesota has been cancelled.

This is in addition to his previously scheduled Minneapolis fundraiser.

Update: McCain's campaign tells us the event is NOT open to the public. The audience will be made up of people the campaign says are undecided voters who were selected by a polling firm. And they will have special tickets to get in.

Don't worry if you can't get in to the town hall. MPR News will broadcast it live on MPR News stations. It will also be streamed online.

Comments (1)

John McCain's speech (hardly appropriate to call this a Town Hall Meeting with the restrictions that were placed on its structure and who could actually attend), makes him appear to be quite unimpressive and ill informed. The comment that he made regarding the perfect safety of nuclear energy alone suggests that his understanding of clean and renewal energy that is environmentally friendly speaks to that lack of information he seems to have availed himself of. Are catastrophic situations such as Chernobyl no longer considered to provide important evidence to the contrary? Has there actually been technology developed to eradicate the tremendous amount of danger that exists to the half life of radioactive material that makes the disposal of radioactive waste from power plants so difficult a proposition that no-one wants them buried in their backyard? Is the danger posed from groups who appear to be so bent on the destruction of humanity so unthreatening that the creation of even more access points to nuclear energy is no longer of any importance? It is amazing to me that such statements are allowed to go unchallenged in the guise of an open forum which this certainly is not.

Posted by Kevan Nitzberg | June 19, 2008 7:31 PM

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