Subject: [big campaign] Release: "McCain Is a Raiders Fan" Banner Flying over Mile High Stadium
From: "Alan Franklin" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 14:58:27 -0700
List-Id: <bigcampaign.googlegroups.com>

here's the full release, the AP wire story is being picked up around the
country. it's all in good fun --

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/nov/02/anti-mccain-banner-flown-over-invesco-field/

*"McCain Is a Raiders Fan" Banner Flying over Mile High Stadium*
*McCain's support of Denver Broncos rival "kiss of death"*
*
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Contact:  Michael Huttner
(303) 931-4547 cell

Denver -- *A plane towing the banner "McCain is a Raiders Fan" is flying
over tens of thousands of people tailgating prior to the Denver Broncos game
at Mile High Stadium today from 12-1PM.  The group who launched the plane
wants to raise awareness of McCain's membership in the Raider Nation, a name
given to die-hard fans of the Oakland Raiders football team, the
arch-division rivals of the Denver Broncos. The banner is also flying over a
McCain campaign tailgate party outside of the stadium.

"That McCain is a Raiders Fan is the kiss of death in Colorado," stated
Michael Huttner, a 2nd Generation Denver native and Executive Director of
ProgressNowAction, whose online organization provided the plane.  "We flew
the plane to ensure that Bronco fans know how out of touch McCain is with
Colorado by supporting our arch-rivals the Oakland Raiders."

The plane, flying over the stadium prior to the game, will also fly over the
McCain campaign's "Hibachi Tailgate" that the campaign claimed in a press
advisory yesterday "connects and evokes positive feelings with the senses of
potential voters." (McCain Media Advisory, 11/1/2008)

"There is nothing positive about McCain being a Raiders' fan," stated
Huttner. "How McCain's campaign can host a tailgate at a Bronco game, when
McCain supports our division rivals is beyond us."

ProgressNowAction launched the banner after learning of McCain's support of
the Raiders on a popular local political blog. ("Prez Race Shifts to
Gridiron", ColoradoPols.com, 11/1/2008)

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