Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Bush's visit to Jersey will be in the afternoon Friday

White House Press Secretary Dana Perino says President Bush will be in Freehold Wednesday afternoon, but she's not particularly sure what time. She also says there will be press pool coverage of the event that will not be open to the general public.

Here's a transcript of Perino's press briefing.

"And then on Friday afternoon, the president will travel Freehold, New Jersey, where he will visit a company called Novadebt. During his visit he will tour the facility and make a statement on housing. Novadebt is approved by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as a housing counseling agency providing pre-purchase default foreclosure and home equity conversion mortgage counseling. For example, when a person calls the HOPE NOW Alliance -- the homeowner's HOPE hotline, Novadebt is one of the companies that they would be referred to, so that they could get the help that they are seeking.

Q What's the coverage on that?

MS. PERINO: Pool coverage.

Q Is there a reason he's going out of town and it's only pool coverage?

MS. PERINO: You know what, let me get answers to you on that. I'll have Carlton do it. I'm hereby asking Carlton to do that.

Q Spelling of the town and the name of the company?

MS. PERINO: Freehold, and the company is Novadebt."

Now, here's some background on the Freehold-based Novadebt.

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