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McCain challenges Obama on town hall meetings

(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-06-05 09:22

BATON ROUGE, La. -- John McCain asked Barack Obama to join him in 10 town hall meetings with voters in the coming months, and their campaigns began negotiations to make it happen.

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., points during a media availability after a campaign event in Baton Rouge, La., Wednesday, June 4, 2008. McCain asked Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., to join him in 10 town hall meetings with voters in the coming months, and their campaigns began negotiations to make it happen. [Agencies]

McCain, the Republican nominee-in-waiting, made the request Wednesday, the day after Obama clinched the Democratic nomination.

"We need to now sit down and work out a way that we can have these town hall meetings and have a great debate," McCain told reporters in Baton Rouge.

Campaign managers for the two sides later spoke by phone and agreed in spirit to participate in joint town hall appearances, McCain's campaign said.

"They both expressed a commitment to raising the level of dialogue, and they will be in close contact as we work together to make this idea a reality," McCain spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker said.

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