ABC News’ Jennifer Parker reports: A 9/11 victims’ advocacy group is urging 2008 presidential candidates Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to observe a “campaign moratorium” on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
MyGoodDeed.org, a nonprofit group trying to establish Sept. 11 as a national day of voluntary service, wrote to both campaigns Tuesday asking them to halt partisan campaign activities, including negative ads.
The Obama campaign told ABCNews.com they will not be running any negative ads attacking McCain on Sept. 11. The McCain campaign said they will pull all of their campaign ads altogether.
“We won’t be running ads on 9/11,” McCain spokesman Brian Rogers told ABCNews.com. “It’s a day for remembrance and unity, not political campaigning.”
Both candidates have been invited to speak at Service Nation Summit in New York on Sept. 11, where political and business leaders will meet to discuss how to boost volunteerism in the US.