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DNC: McCain's Closed Town Hall Meeting With Latinos Raises Questions
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Targeted News Service
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June 20, 2008
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The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release:
John McCain held a town hall meeting with Latinos in Chicago, Illinois last night, but unlike all of his other town hall meetings, this one took place behind closed doors. One hundred pre-screened Latinos were bused in to Chicago for the meeting, but community leaders like Eluid Medina, who heads a neighborhood networking group, were kept out according to a news report. Medina told Diario Hoy that a conversation on the challenges Latinos face, "can't be partisan, the problems affect us all as a community and the meeting should have been open." [Diario Hoy, 6/19/08]
McCain's closed-door town hall meeting with a pre-screened ...