Want to see former President Bill Clinton campaign for Michelle Nunn, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, in Atlanta on Friday? Then be at Paschal's Fine Southern Cuisine, 180 Northside Drive S.W., at 12:30 p.m.
This is a ticketed, but public event, the Nunn campaign tells us. To get a ticket, call 404-445-6709.
Paschal's is famous as the restaurant at which Atlanta's civil rights leadership, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., plotted their strategy -- though it was at a different location at the time. But the new site has some resonance for the Clintons. Seven years ago, Paschal's was the site of a Hillary Clinton presidential rally, which featured an endorsement by U.S. Rep. John Lewis. The congressman was eventually pressured to switch his support to another candidate -- Barack Obama.
A reader supporting the other side points out that Clinton and Michelle Nunn's father did not always see eye to eye. Here's an op-ed by Sam Nunn in 1998 -- after he left the Senate -- as the Monica Lewinsky scandal took off, suggesting Clinton should step down:
"This will require personal sacrifice and may even require his resignation, but it would fulfill the president's most important oath -- to preserve and protect our nation."
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