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THK 8/24  Martinsburg.
JE 8/30  Beckley.  8/31  Beckley.
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JE 9/8  Clarksburg.
EE 9/10  Princeton, Fairmont, Charleston.
JE (Overnights Sept. 14 in Parkersburg)  WV and OH bus tour... 9/15 Parkersburg.  9/16 Huntington.
EE 9/27  Huntington.  9/28 Westover, Lewisburg.
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Kerry/Edwards in West Virginia

JK
JE
THKsolo
EEsolo

Visits Days Visits Days Visits Days
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Days
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Final month (Oct. 2-Nov. 2, 2004): - - 1
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Eight months (March 2-Nov. 2, 2004): 6 6 8 10 2
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Prior to March 2, 2004:







N O V E M B E R
O C T O B E R
October 29, 2004
-JE and EE rally at Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport in Williamstown, WV.  (this rally started a couple of hours late, actually after midnight; Edwards' plane took off from Raleigh-Durham International Airport for West Virginia but then had to return due to a small fire on board).

Note: On October 12 the Kerry campaign announced that Sen. Kerry and Sen. Robert Byrd would visit Apostolic Life Cathedral in Huntington, WV on October 17, 2004.  However this visit was subsequently cancelled and Kerry did not return to the state.

S E P T E M B E R
September 29, 2004
-JE holds a town meeting "Stronger At Home More Respected In The World" at Weirton Conference Center in Weirton, WV.

September 27-28, 2004
Sept. 27
-EE holds a town hall meeting at Marshall University, Memorial Student Center in Huntington, WV.
Sept. 28
-EE and "Moms on a Mission" hold a town hall discussion at VFW Post 9916 in Westover, WV.
-EE holds roundtable discussion with community members at Food and Friends Diner in Lewisburg, WV.

September 15-16, 2004
Overnights September 14 in Parkersburg, WV.
Sen. Edwards does a two-day West Virginia, Ohio Bus Tour ("Stronger America Begins at Home")
Sept. 15
-JE jobs discussion in the Activities Center at West Virginia University-Parkersburg in Parkersburg, WV.
...Ohio stops
Sept. 16
...Ohio stops.
Arriving from Portsmouth, OH, JE concludes bus tour with a rally at Tri-State Airport in Huntington, WV.
(from this event came the photo of crying 3-year-old Sophia Parlock on top of shoulders of father Phil Parlock after the Bush-Cheney sign she was holding was ripped up)

September 10, 2004
-EE holds a discussion at Princeton Public Library in Princeton, WV.
-EE holds a job discussion at the Volunteer Fire House in Fairmont, WV.
-EE holds a town hall meeting at Charleston Civic Center in Charleston, WV.

September 8, 2004
-JE attends a town hall meeting at Fairmont State University in Clarksburg, WV.

September 6, 2004
-JK attends a Boone County Labor Day celebration with mineworkers at John Slack Memorial Park in Racine, WV.

A U G U S T
August 30-31, 2004
Aug. 30
-JE makes an unscheduled stop at Tamarack, an arts and crafts center in Beckley, WV.
Aug. 31
-JE makes a front-porch visit at the home of retired miner Dickie Todd (Flannery Rd. and Highway 41-Piney View) in Beckley, WV.
-JE holds Stronger America Begins at Home rally at Shoemaker Square in Beckley, WV.

August 24, 2004
-THK holds a discussion on rising health care costs and economic pressures facing women at the Dorothy McCormack Center at City Hospital in Martinsburg, WV.

August 21, 2004
-JE holds a town hall at Nitro Community Center-Kathy Mattea Auditorium in Nitro, WV.

J U L Y
July 31, 2004
-On two-week post-Convention "Believe in America" tour JK and JE rally at Heritage Port in Wheeling, WV.

July 15, 2004
-JK attends Kerry-Edwards Victory 2004 reception at Charleston Civic Center in Charleston, WV. ($)
-JK attends a Kerry-Edwards 2004 rally at the University of Charleston's Riggleman Hall Lawn in Charleston, WV.

July 9, 2004
-JK and JE attend a "New Team for a New America" rally at Beckley/Raleigh County Memorial Airport, Beaver, WV.

J U N E
June 2, 2004
-THK guest of honor at a private luncheon with members of the West Virginia Democratic Federation of Women and DREMA Dems at Marriott Town Center in Charleston, WV.
-THK meets with families of military service personnel at Humphreys' Pine Room restaurant in Charleston, WV.
M A Y
A P R I L
April 26, 2004
Sen. Kerry on "Jobs First Express - On the Road to a Stronger Economy" Tour (April 26-28) WV, PA, OH and MI
-Tours the McElroy Mine, speaks with mine workers, accepts the endorsement of United Mine Workers of America in Moundsville (outside Wheeling), WV.
-Trade policy speech at the White Palace in Wheeling Park in Wheeling, WV.
-To Canonsburg, PA.
M A R C H
March 16, 2004
Flight to Huntington, WV.
-JK town hall meeting with veterans at Marshall University in Huntington, WV.
-JK local stop.  Eats at Jim's Steak and Spaghetti House, in the same booth where John F. Kennedy did in 1960, in Huntington, WV.
-JK Change for America rally at Charleston Civic Center in Charleston, WV.
Overnight in Charleston, WV.


 

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