July 7, 2008 - 15:38
News: Kentucky

MoveOn.org targets McCain with Wednesday rallies

MoveOn.org's latest nationwide campaign effort will incorporate two rallies in Kentucky this week, with Wednesday events planned at a gas station in Louisville and a Lexington park. 

The rallies are part of MoveOn.org's "Day of Action for an Oil-Free President" push, which seeks to connect presumptive Republican presidential nominee and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) with oil company interests.

"Big Oil has a new candidate for president: their friend John McCain," reads an annoucement of the campaign on MoveOn.org's political action website. "With 21 oil lobbyists running his campaign, John McCain won't solve our energy crisis."

Supporters of MoveOn.org's cause will gather near a Chevron gas station at 1244 E. Broadway in Louisville at 5:30 pm on Wednesday and Triangle Park in Lexington at 5pm on the same day.

MoveOn.org - a prominent liberal political action group - has thrown its significant resources behind the campaign of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), whom was endorsed by the group in February of this year - while Obama was still enmeshed in a competitive Democratic primary.

The efforts of MoveOn.org and the Obama campaign, however, are forbidden by law to be coordinated.

Events such as those on Wednesday are scheduled throughout the country.

The two in Kentucky are planned in the communities where Obama performed best in the May 20 primary against U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.). The rallies in Jefferson and Fayette County mean MoveOn.org is hitting the only two counties Obama carried in the state.

Trey Pollard is a PolitickerKY.com Reporter and can be reached via email at noreply@politicker.com.

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