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ALBANY (January 17, 2008) -- Over 100 community, religious, education, labor and human services organizations from throughout New York State have issued a joint statement today calling upon elected officials to make “better” choices in the upcoming budget debates. The joint statement of support was issued today at a press conference at the Legislative Office Building in Albany. The

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Send a short comment to the Congressional Black Caucus Institute, (which enters you for a chance to win a hotel room and VIP tickets): http://vovici.com/wsb.dll/s/5e83g2a5dc **NEW** comment to Wolf Blitzer: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/11/blitzer-what-should-i-ask-the-democrats-in-south-carolina/ The debates on January 21, 24, 30 and 31 are open for anyone to submit questions.

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Gay voters in Iowa and New Hampshire want their next president to bring change, but cannot agree who’s best for the job. Beth Barnhill, a 52-year-old lesbian living in Des Moines, said Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is best positioned to transform the nation. “I think we’re desperately in need of change,” she said. “Dramatic change.” But Mark Anthony Dingbaum, a 22-year-old gay man living in Iowa

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Inside Video Coverage More…. McCain Sunday January 6th. Who: 2 dozen activists from ACT UP Philly, ACT UP/NY, Housing Works, NYCAHN, SGAC, Health GAP, Private Health Insurance Must Go! Coalition, FXB, PIH, and probably others that I'm forgetting. What: McCain town hall with about 1,000 people in Salem, NH high school gym What we did: Many of us in NH were incredibly frustrated that

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A van load of bird-doggers attended Rudy Giuliani’s post-debate party in hopes of giving a ‘toast’ to his absent efforts to support Americans living with HIV/AIDS. Not a single crowd member was able to get a word across to Rudy or his supporters. While half of the crowd impatiently awaited inside a chance to ‘salute’ Rudy, he spoke for five minutes and made a dash for the door. Kaytee

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Mike Huckabee: Manchester, NH Post-Debate Party ACT UP Founding Member Eric Sawyer confronted former Governor Mike Huckabee at a supporter’s reception after the Sunday night Debate in New Hampshire. As Huckabee took the podium to speak to supporters: a dozen AIDS Activists started clanking their glasses calling “Toast, ­ Toast!” Sawyer called out Governor Huckabee: May I offer a Toast?

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Video Here John McCain: Peterborough, NH Town Hall 12:00 PM Teams from Act Up New York/Housing Works arrived in Peterborough, NH this morning to a packed town awaiting the McCain Campaign. Before: Two bird-doggers were able to be present during the town, the remainder of the team covered the “outside”: candidate entrance/exit and media relations. Congressman Todd Platts (R-PA) was

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Pre-Debate House Party in Bedford, NH. Hayley Hathaway and Amy McPheeters (Student Global AIDS Campaign) attended a Romney house party on Saturday morning in Bedford, NH. The event was packed and although we arrived early, Hayley and I weren't in the best location to get a question in. He and his wife spoke briefly, but of nothing of real importance... rather about how we should all like

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First-hand account of what went down in Nashua at the Clinton event: She gave a quick stump speech and then went straight into a Q/A session in a gym of about 2,000 people. I got the first question, and by enormous luck, CNN cut in live just as I started the question, and our colleague T. Richard happened to be watching at that moment to catch it. I asked the question partially noted below

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Next up for the Dems: Jan 15 - Michigan (on 12/01/07 the DNC took away their delegates) Jan 19 - Nevada caucus (approved by DNC) Jan 26 - South Carolina Primary (approved by DNC) Jan 29 - Florida Primary (penalized by DNC for breaking party rules, resulted in losing their delegates) Here's an embiggenable map to the primary season: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/

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"On World AIDS Day, we are reminded of the importance of America's commitment to fighting one of mankind's most deadly infectious diseases. Around the world, over 33 million people are living with HIV/AIDS. In 2007 alone, 2.5 million people became infected with HIV and another 2.1 million died from AIDS. To strengthen our fight against HIV/AIDS and bring hope to those afflicted with this disease

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December 21, 2007 Arkansan activist calls attention to Huckabee's AIDS atrocities during his tenure as Governor Camp (in blue tie), when Huckabee signed law allowing Arkansas to fund AIDS meds for the poor—but this symbolic effort wasn't enough AIDS activist Eric Camp, 44, believes that he and his former Gov. Mike Huckabee have some similarities. They both hail from conservative Southern

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Start planning now to get some AIDS visiblity at these 2008 presidential candidate debates! September 26, 2008: Presidential debate with domestic policy focus, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS October 2, 2008: Vice Presidential debate, Washington University, St. Louis, MO October 7, 2008: Presidential debate in a town hall format, Belmont University, Nashville, TN

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Washington Post Editorials HIV Clueless: What Mike Huckabee hasn't learned IN 1992, Mike Huckabee, then a candidate for U.S. Senate from Arkansas, urged the "isolation" of "carriers" of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. His exact words were: "If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague

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By LIZ SIDOTI Associated Press Writer DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The mother of Ryan White, an Indiana teenager whose life-ending battle with AIDS in the 1980s engrossed the nation, wants to meet with Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to discuss his comments 15 years ago that AIDS patients should have been isolated. The former Arkansas governor and GOP front-runner in the important

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Raising deep objections to Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's un-recanted support for such stigmatizing and ill-informed policies as "quarantine" for persons living with HIV/AIDS, the National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA) urged all presidential candidates today to denounce AIDS-related stigma and discrimination, which only helps to fuel the HIV/AIDS

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PRESS STATEMENT Monday, December 10, 2007 Contacts: Tami Haught, Nashua: (c) 641-220-2579 Scott Clair, Ames: (w) 515-2940682 or (h) 515-453-2999 Iowans for AIDS Action Members Condemn Huckabee’s ’92 AIDS Comments, Call for All Candidates to Support Smart Public Health Approaches to HIV Prevention and Treatment Des Moines, IA- Members of Iowans for AIDS Action today released the following

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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, on Sunday said that he will not "recant" statements made in 1992 in which he called for people living with HIV/AIDS to be isolated from the general population, the AP/International Herald Tribune reports. Huckabee -- who made the statements in an Associated Press survey while running for Senate

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by Christi Parsons, Chicago Tribune Mike Huckabee says he stands by his statements fifteen years ago about AIDS patients, though he concedes he might phrase them differently today. In some old candidate questionnaires the Associated Press has dug up, Huckabee suggested back then that AIDS patients should essentially be quarantined. "Fifteen years ago, the AIDS crisis was just that. It was a

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Group assails Giuliani comments on AIDS as 'hypocrisy' Had battled with him on contracts By Brian C. Mooney, Boston Globe Staff | December 7, 2007 On World AIDS Day last weekend, Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani vowed that if he were elected president he would "continue America's life-saving role as a leader in the global fight against HIV/AIDS until the day humanity can

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By ANDREW DeMILLO, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 25 minutes ago Mike Huckabee once advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public, opposed increased federal funding in the search for a cure and said homosexuality could "pose a dangerous public health risk." As a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in 1992, Huckabee answered 229 questions submitted to him by The Associated Press.

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Richardson Unveils HIV/AIDS Policy on World AIDS Day DES MOINES, IA-- New Mexico Governor and Democratic Presidential candidate Bill Richardson today unveiled his policy on HIV/AIDS. As President, Richardson is committed to tackling this epidemic, both in the United States and around the world. He will do so by focusing on evidence-based prevention, providing quality and affordable treatment,

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The suffering and loss of life caused by HIV/AIDS is a national and international tragedy. Here at home, more than a million of us have HIV or AIDS, with 40,000 new cases last year. The incidence of new infections has not declined in fifteen years. This disease is especially devastating to our minority communities, which account for two of every three new cases. While African-Americans are only

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http://www.joinrudy2008.com/article/pr/1039 Mayor Rudy Giuliani released the following statement on World AIDS Day: “Over 33 million people are infected with HIV around the world. More than 2 million people have died of AIDS in 2007 alone. Thanks to the dedicated health professionals, researchers, and innovators in the United States, many HIV-positive people are able to live longer and more

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