Pitt Students at PA Senate Debate - Bird-dogging Extraordinare!

Hi everyone, > > Three of us from Pitt's Student Global AIDS Project (SGAP) were at the > Casey Santorum debate today. We watched the debate through the > newsroom window and got to talk to several campaign staff members from both sides. > We met Paul Begala (of CNN's Crossfire and Casey's campaign) and got > to talk about the debate and the issues we wanted to bring up. > > We grabbed Santorum as he left and used a tag team approach to telling > him about the 8 billion and adding in great facts from Kaytee's fact > sheet (thank you for that!) > > Bonnie jumped in front of a cameraman filming Santorum supporters and > said that both candidates need to support the 8 billion over 5 years. > Not sure if they could use it though, because the Santorum people kind > of drowned her out. > She also came up with the creative chant "Grow a pair, support health > care!" However, use at your own risk due to its PG-13 nature. > > Casey was harder to find and after waiting outside in the cold for a > long time we wrote a letter and stuck it on his car. Hopefully, we can > catch him a few more times as he makes his rounds in PA. > > We plan to do a reteach-in at our meeting this week to help spread the > political action spirit and information about the Health care workers > initiative. Thanks to Paul, Kaytee, Hanni, Lauren, and Sara for their > help last weekend! > > Keep at em, guys, > > Mary Carroll > SGAP