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CreekDog

(46,192 posts)
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 07:39 PM Apr 2012

Michelle Obama, told Co-Pink co-founders: "Keep up the great work"

Interesting:

CodePink on Michelle Obama’s message to them in SF: “Keep up the great work”
by Carla Marinucci

First Lady Michelle Obama, accepting an anti-war petition at a fundraiser in San Francisco last week, told the CodePink member who presented her with 20,000 signatures, ”Keep up the great work,” the organization’s co-founders say.

CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin wrote a blogpost today about the First Lady’s visit. In it, she related what she said happened behind the scenes when Kristin Hull, a CodePink supporter – one who paid to get into the $500 a head fundraiser – personally met up with Michelle Obama at the California Academy of Sciences last Friday.

After Hull handed Mrs. Obama a petition urging peacekeeping not war with Iraq — a document signed by luminaries like Gloria Steinham, Alice Walker and Eve Ensler...

http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2012/04/04/codepink-says-michelle-obama-had-message-in-sf-keep-up-the-great-work/?tsp=1

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