Update: More Celebrities To Visit East Carolina University
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Updated: 9:32 PM Sep 28, 2008
Update: More Celebrities To Visit East Carolina University
Televison stars of Grey's Anatomy and "Shark" arrived at ECU with a message to vote.
Posted: 9:19 PM Sep 27, 2008
Reporter: Lynnette Taylor
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Actors for Senator Barack Obama have put their support behind the Senator by traveling to colleges across the state to get students registered to vote.

Ellen Pompeo who currently plays "Meredith Grey" in the show "Grey's Anatomy", and Danielle Panabaker, star of "Shark", spoke to a modest crowd of students this afternoon at East Carolina University.

The women are traveling from campus to campus to encourage college students to vote early.

Since North Carolina is considered a battle ground state in the election, the Obama campaign pays from them to travel to stump for him.

This can also become a scarifice for the actresses who became vocal about their politically views while working on popular T.V. shows.

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Ellen Pompeo who currently plays “Meredith Grey” in the show Grey’s Anatomy, and Danielle Panabaker, star of Shark, will be at East Carolina University Sunday, to speak in support of Barack Obama.

Pompeo and Panabaker will address students in the Mendenhall Great Room at the Mendenhall Student Center at 11:30 AM Sunday about the importance of registering to vote and getting involved in this year’s election. The voter registration deadline is October 10, but early voting starts on October 16.

Pompeo and Panabaker will also make stops at UNC Wilmington, Campbell University, Meredith College, UNC Pembroke and NC State University.

Details for the East Carolina event follows:

Sunday, September, 28

11:30 AM

Mendenhall Great Room

Mendenhall Student Center

East Carolina University

701 E. 5th Street

Greenville, NC 27858


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Posted by: WITN? Location: NC on Sep 30, 2008 at 06:19 PM

Thank you for answering my question. The reason that I asked is that normally ECU pays people to speak or lecture there.
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Posted by: ??? Location: NC on Sep 30, 2008 at 03:54 PM

KP, when your husband signed on that dotted line and took that oath, he was agreeing to go to war if the need arose. Whats up with all these people saying that someone joined the military but not to go and fight a war?These people need to take some notes from the WW II generation. How about if they had felt the way folks do now? And hey, they were drafted into the military. If they had been like many of todays generation,we would be speaking German or Japanese, if we were even here.Also, we need more Generals like George S. Patton instead of all these wannabe politicians that they call Generals today.Especially Wes Clark.
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Posted by: KAT Location: Washington on Sep 30, 2008 at 03:31 PM

I would put about as much faith in what an actor says as I would the little lying red-headed kid two doors down. They act, allowing them to play at something their not. They are paid exorbitant money. It doesn't take a college degree to be an actor. What vast storehouse of knowledge are they basing their opinions on? Who cares what these people say? Certainly not me.
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