ONE Campaign pressuring candidates on poverty

from WCAX

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rock star Bono's anti-poverty campaign is turning to New Hampshire and other early voting states to pressure presidential candidates to focus on poverty.

Leaders of the program, called ONE Vote '08, argue that helping the poor is a national security issue.

The aim is to push the new president to commit to taking concrete steps in the first 100 days of the new term to fight hunger and disease while improving access to education and water around the world.

Co-chairman Bill Frist, the former senator from Tennessee, says people do not go to war with people who have saved their children's lives.

The group says it will hold town-hall-style events, send out mailings, and run a celebrity bus tour and TV advertisements.