Ex-Toledo councilman faces charges after protest disrupts Congress

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http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060309/NEWS03/603090431/-1/NEWS

WASHINGTON - Former Toledo councilman and 1993 mayoral candidate Michael Ferner was arrested last night on charges of disrupting a congressional hearing in the U.S. Capitol Building for vocally protesting additional funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mr. Ferner, 54,...was arrested by U.S. Capitol Police about 8 p.m. and charged with disruption of Congress, a misdemeanor. Authorities said several people were involved, and Mr. Ferner was one of two men arrested. He was to be processed and released because he had local identification, authorities said.

Mr. Ferner was seated in a public gallery during a hearing by the full House Appropriations Committee, where members debated a $91 billion measure funding hurricane relief and the war against terrorists...

Last month, Mr. Ferner and his brother were sentenced to three years' probation, 180-day suspended jail terms, and $638 in fines and court costs for criminal damaging convictions relating to their spray-painting of anti-war slogans on two bridges over I-475/U.S. 23 in Maumee on New Year's Day...

[Demit]

1. How bizarre that they published his address in that item!

That's a pretty irresponsible thing for a newspaper to do. Is this Toledo Blade policy, or do they only slip and do it for people they disapprove of, I wonder?

[Algorem]

2. I guess they do it in the "Police" section if it's a person charged with

something and they live Toledo.Which does seems strange.I see in a story about a 17-year old they even give his address.