Moving three movie clips together to a y co-ordinate of an event click

I have 9 buttons (with instance names mov_1 - mov_9) verticle along a page. I want movie clips a, b and c. with instance names (ltop, graphic and lbottom). to move in parrallel down the page to the y co-ordinates of each of the 9 button movie clips when clicked on. My code so far for each of the cases is:
public function onClicked( e:MouseEvent ):void
   var circle:MovieClip = e.currentTarget as MovieClip;
   HtmlTextFieldFactory.formatTextFields( [panel.title, panel.content], this.context );
   switch( circle )
    case mov_1:
     panel.title.htmlText = _modelDataHelper.getTextAssets( "ct1" );
     panel.content.htmlText = _modelDataHelper.getTextAssets( "c1" );
     panel.x = 30;
     panel.y = 438;
     circle.alpha = 1;
     circle.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, onMouseOut );
     circle.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, onMouseOver );
     var mov_1_y:Number = mov_1.y;
     var myTween1a:Tween = new Tween(graphic, "scaleY", Strong.easeOut, graphic.scaleY, 1, 2, true);
     var myTween1b:Tween = new Tween(graphic, "y", Strong.easeOut, graphic.y, mov_1_y, 2, true);
     var myTween1c:Tween = new Tween(ltop, "y", Strong.easeOut, ltop.y, graphic.y, 2, true);
     var myTween1d:Tween = new Tween(lbottom, "y", Strong.easeOut, lbottom.y, graphic.y + 135, 2, true);
     break;
Currently on one click of mov_1, graphic moves to the correct place. But it takes a second click before ltop and lbottom move to the correct place. I am needing them to move at the same time, together.
Any suggestions?
Thanks

This is happening because of what the value of graphic.y is at the time of instantiating myTween1c and myTween1d. Perhaps they should be this:
var myTween1c:Tween = new Tween(ltop, "y", Strong.easeOut, ltop.y, mov_1_y, 2, true);
var myTween1d:Tween = new Tween(lbottom, "y", Strong.easeOut, lbottom.y, mov_1_y + 135, 2, true);
HTH

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