Presidential motorcade pulls in at school for 75-minute town hall on credit card reform.

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live blogging at link.


http://www.abqjournal.com/abqnews/abqnewseeker-mainmenu-39/12482-920am-presidents-motorcade-route-a-mystery.html


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Updated at 10:07am -- Obama Arrives at Rio Rancho High Permalink comment E-mail
By Bruce Daniels - ABQnewsSeeker
Thursday, 14 May 2009 10:07

Presidential motorcade pulls in at school for 75-minute town hall on credit card reform.

The gymnasium at Rio Rancho High School had filled up early and protesters lined the mostly blocked-off streets around the high school, as the motorcade carrying President Barack Obama and his entourage pulled into the school parking lot, KRQE News 13 is reporting.
9:20am -- President's Motorcade Route Still a Secret: Secret Service says this morning's route can't be disclosed, but you'll know it when it happens.

Today's Albuquerque Journal promised you we'd post any traffic tie-ups or road closures for President Barack Obama's trip from an undisclosed location in Albuquerque (rumors have it it's the Albuquerque Marriott on Louisiana NE) to Rio Rancho High School at 301 Loma Colorado where he will conduct a 75-minute town hall on credit card reform beginning at 10 a.m.

The U.S. Secret Service in Albuquerque cannot disclose the route in advance for security reasons, but an agent at the Albuquerque office said it should become obvious as soon as it's under way.

For drivers trying to get to the state high school baseball tournament game in Rio Rancho, the New Mexico Activities Association has posted suggestions for how to avoid the presidential appearance and get to the game this morning.

The president's town hall will be broadcast live on television stations KOAT-TV, KOB-TV and KRQE News 13 and will be live-streamed on their Web sites. (You can watch the high school auditorium filling up right now on News 13.)

The New Mexico Independent also will be live-blogging the event with its own panel of experts, including Linda Sherry, director of national priorities at the Washington, D.C., office of San Francisco-based Consumer Action; Dianna Dorn Jones of the United South Broadway Corporation in Albuquerque; and a representative of the New Mexico Attorney General's Office Consumer Protection Division.

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2. hope someone asks why the new credit card bill doesn't cap interest rates at 15%

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3. Link to live blogging here....

http://newmexicoindependent.com/27419/coming-soon-live-blog-from-obamas-town-hall-on-credit-card-reform

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4. What credit card reform?

We can't even get Democrats to agree to a bloody 15% cap on rates. You know the same cap on rates that credit unions have to abide by?

Regards

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5. I know. The senate took a huge punch of it.