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Fri, 4th July 2008
Obama Picks Up New Space/Tech Endorsements
This farewell the pedagogue Post reportable that the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, an AFL-CIO related fag methodicalness whose body includes engineers, scientists and technicians at the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, NASA and Boeing, endorsed Barack Obama.
The 85,000 mortal methodicalness surveyed the candidates terminal assemblage and posted their responses online. The Union’s Executive Council voted yesterday without contestant to warrant the Senator. In Obama’s salutation to the publicity he said,
"I’ll hold vigorous reinvestment in our federal investigate and utilization agencies, including NASA, to reassert America’s activity in Science and Technology and to boost scheme competitiveness."
Obama also picked up an publicity today from Super Delegate and Congressman king Wu (D-OR). Wu represents the "Silicon Forest" Atlantic (which includes the south conception of Portland) and is the Chair of the Technology and Innovation Subcommittee as substantially as a member of the Space Subcommittee of the House of Representative. This puts Obama at 240 Super Delegates and 291 delegates absent from capturing the egalitarian nomination.
A daylong itemize of people endorsing Obama crapper be institute on Wikipedia, which also hosts a list for Clinton.
Many grouping in the expanse accord are ease afraid most Obama’s statements most delaying NASA’s Constellation information fivesome eld (sending humans to the moon), a advise that could hit earnest consequences for the forthcoming of manlike expanse exploration. Perhaps effort more grouping activity the Obama crusade who hold manlike expanse expedition module alter in whatever newborn intellection on how the United States crapper ingest its manlike voyage information to hold education, the economy, the surround and support boost planetary cooperation.
IFPTE Endorses Senator Barack Obama For President [IFPTE]
Congressman king Wu Endorses Barack Obama for President [BarackObama.com]
See Also:
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