Nevada and National Leaders Challenge Presidential Candidates to Strengthen America’s…
Nevada and National Leaders Challenge Presidential Candidates to Strengthen
America’s Global Leadership
Local Leaders Join Former Homeland Security Secretary and Governor Tom Ridge,
Andrea Koppel, Former Senator Richard Bryan and Starbucks Senior Vice
President Sandra Taylor
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Center for U.S. Global
Engagement and its state partners, the Nevada Committee on Foreign Relations
and World Market Center, joined more than 400 Nevada business, civic,
political, academic and faith leaders today in the countdown to the Nevada
caucuses to launch Impact ’08 in Nevada: Building a Better, Safer World, a
campaign urging the Presidential candidates to elevate and strengthen
America’s non-military tools for global engagement.
This bipartisan group of Nevada leaders joins a growing campaign of leaders in
other early voting states and nationally who are calling on the Presidential
candidates to chart a new path for America’s role in the world, with greater
investments in global development, health and diplomacy to promote America’s
national security, economic prosperity, and moral leadership.
The impressive and unusually diverse group of Nevada leaders launching the
Impact ’08 in Nevada campaign include: Governor Jim Gibbons; Lt. Governor
Brian K. Krolicki; U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid; U.S. Rep. Shelley
Berkley; Dina Titus, Minority Leader of the Nevada State Senate; former
Governor and U.S. Senator Richard Bryan; William P. Weidner, President and COO
of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation; Milton D. Glick, President of the
University of Nevada, Reno; Dr. Carol Harter, President Emerita of the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Dr. Yvonne Stedman, President of the Nevada
World Trade Council; Hon. Ruben Kihuen, Nevada State Assembly Member; and
Rabbi Jeremy Wiederhorn.
“With our nation’s security and our economy at stake, the next President must
not only strengthen our military capabilities, but also our non-military
capacity to address global political, economic, and humanitarian challenges,”
said Governor Ridge.
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