Former Senator Bill Frist (R- Tenn.) Former Republican Senate Majority Leader and ONE Vote '08 co- chair Bill Frist of Tenn. met with S.C. ambassadors of ONE Vote '08 for lunch at the Capitol City Club, Thursday, August 30.

Frist, also known as the heart/lung transplant surgeon Dr. Frist, outlined the four main targets of his humanitarian insertion into the presidential campaign: (1) ending global disease; (2) promoting child and maternal health; (3) providing education; (4) improving clean water.

As former Secretary of State Colin Powell put it earlier: "The United States cannot win the war on terrorism unless we confront the social and political roots of poverty. We want to bring people to justice if they commit acts of terrorism, but we also want to bring justice to people."

Further explaining why ONE Vote '08 was important, Rick Warren,

author of The Purpose

Driven Life, was cited in Frist's handout: "The ONE Campaign can unite people together from different backgrounds, different beliefs, different views on life, because these are not only religious issues - they're human issues.

Bob Royal, Former ambassador to Tanzania As Americans, we have to care about the 3 billion people who live on $2 a day and the 1 billion people who live on less than a dollar a day. AIDS and poverty will never be solved by one group alone, it takes government, it takes churches, and it takes business, and each of them has a role."

Overall, the leading effort behind making global poverty a 2008 presidential campaign theme was Irish rocker Bono and his $30 million.

Quoted in Frist's handout, Bono worried most about Africa: "Our global challenge is figuring out what to do about the extreme, stupid poverty, which see millions die each year because they are too poor to live. Nowhere more than in Africa."

Joining Bono and Frist, a Republican, was Frist's Democrat counterpart, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle of S.D.

In S.C., former Governor Jim Hodges and 2nd District Congressman Joe Wilson agreed to be the S.C. co- chairs of the initiative.

S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster and Richland County Council Member Bernice Scott. In an op- ed piece published August 24, Hodges and Wilson said, "While we are on opposite sides of the political aisle, we share a common belief that the problems of global poverty and disease are a humanitarian and strategic priority for the U.S."

David Campbell and Rick Nobel