As Facing South readers know, the Gulf Coast recovery is still a live and burning issue for thousands of people. But it has yet to come up in any of the 2008 presidential debates.

On January 30th and 31st, CNN, the L.A. Times and Politico.com are hosting Democratic and Republican presidential debates. At Politico.com you can vote for questions to be asked of the candidates. ColorOfChange.org and other advocates are mounting an online campaign to get a question asked about the Gulf Coast Civic Works Act (H.R. 4048), the plan we've written about before that would create 100,000 good-paying jobs in the Gulf Coast and help people rebuild their communities.

Go here to vote to get this question in the debates. For more about the Gulf Coast Civic Works Project, go here.