A student group advocating for global AIDS funding interrupted President Barack Obama’s speech at a rally for Gov. Deval Patrick on Saturday.
The Global Health and AIDS Coalition, made up of Harvard University and Dartmouth College students, attended the Hynes Convention Center rally to “get Obama’s attention.”
The group chanted at the rally while holding a sign that read, “keep the promise.”
Audience members drowned out the group by yelling “four more years” and pro-Patrick chants.
But get his attention they did.
Obama fired a response back to the group mid-speech by urging them to compare how Republicans and Democrats were handling the issue.
“If [the Republicans] win in Congress they will cut AIDS funding right here in the United States,” he said forcefully and to a huge ovation from the audience.
Read the full story at the BU Daily Free Press.
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