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Bono and Friends Open Bid to Make World Poverty a Focus of '08 Race

Washington Post, Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Irish rocker Bono launched a $30 million bid yesterday to turn global poverty into a 2008 campaign theme, enlisting help from the rich and famous and a small army of Washington insiders.

Dubbed One Vote '08, the group held its kickoff event at a Capitol Hill church with a crowded agenda. Co-chairmen Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) and Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), both former Senate majority leaders, delivered speeches. Other headliners included ministers, a Zambian nurse and the African children's choir that appeared on "American Idol" in April.(“…”)

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