CEOs Tell Americans To Vote
Thursday, October 30th, 2008‘The Vote Hour’ - a group started by Google - has released a video on YouTube featuring CEOs ranging from Google’s Eric Schmidt to Donald Trump - urging Americans to take an hour off from work on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 in order to vote at the United States’ presidential election.
The fact that the U.S. presidential election is scheduled during a week day is probably news to a lot of us Australians. Our elections are held on Saturdays, when most people (with the notable exception of the retail sector) don’t work.
Then again, next Tuesday is a public holiday where I live - Melbourne. Want to know why? Because it’s the Melbourne Cup - yep, we have a public holiday to celebrate gambling a horse race…
Here’s the video:
