Bush staffers ejected 3 at speech (truth different from official story)

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

So what else is new?

A mystery "overzealous volunteer" was the original scapegoat. However, it appears it was a WH staff member, our tax dollars at work, again.

BTW, when a president appears at a "townhall" it's apparently a "private event."

Secret Service not responsible. A federal report shows a White House employee ousted the trio from the president's talk in Denver.
By Howard Pankratz
Denver Post Staff Writer

A White House staff member was responsible for asking three people to leave President Bush's town-hall meeting in Denver a year ago, a U.S. Secret Service agent said during an internal investigation of the event.

The Secret Service was investigating the complaints of the three people, who said they were ousted from the Bush event last March because their car's bumper sticker criticized his foreign policy.

According to a Secret Service report obtained by the Denver Post under a Freedom of Information Act request, the agents present said it was "staff" who asked the individuals to leave, not them. When the trio - Les lie Weise, Alex Young and Karen Bauer - asked the agents why they had to leave, the agents said they had no control over the situation.

A Secret Service agent told them "there was nothing they could do because the event was hosted by the staff and was a private event."

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_3619779

Here's an article I posted last April with the "volunteer" story.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1377511

MKJ

[jojo54]

1. ALL of W.'s events are private!

That's why he never has to answer any hardball questions. I know you realize this, but a lot of people don't. All ya have to do is look at the crowds (mostly military).

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

6. Yep, false advertising. The WH promoted this event as open to the public

which, of course, it never was. MKJ

[tanyev]

2. Is this the same staff that pretends to be with Fox News when doing

advance work?

Advance Workers for Bush Impersonated (Fox)Reporters (& Secret Service)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2174902


Is it fascism yet?

[wakeme2008]

9. that was my first thought went I saw that about the "fox News"

reporters :grr:

[goddess40]

3. I'm tired of my tax dollars paying for this crap

anything bush does should come out of the republican campaign fund - including his trip back to Texas to vote because he forgot to get an absentee ballot.

[maddezmom]

4. and of course the taxpayers foot the bill for these so called "townhalls"

:puke:

[shoelace414]

5. Private? Bush must have paid for his flight himself (or his campaign)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Hello? There are no "private events" if you're on the government payroll.

Those "staff" people, whoever the hell they were, were government employees and violated those people's Constitutional rights just as much as if they were Secret Service agents.

[DeepModem Mom]

8. This was not the Founders' intent. nt

[DeepModem Mom]

10. Thanks for this post! I added it to my Journal list of DU post recs! nt

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

14. YW and thanks for rec! :)

MKJ
:hi:

[wordpix2]

11. the jackboots in WH march on

[katinmn]

12. All costs for private events need to be funded by the RNC

[boobooday]

13. So that means he flew there in the Enron jet . . .

And The Carlyle Group rented the venue and Halliburton provided security?

A private event?

After I :puke: I K&R'd.

[wordpix2]

15. the 3 were "potential" protesters--hope they sue * personally---now US

citizens will have to pay for lawsuits b/c BushCo is denying people their constitutional rights.

Hey, :think: that's a great idea! Sue Bush personally for denying our rights, spying, and so on---let's sue the person responsible instead of all the people, half of whom didn't vote for * and most of whom are against his disastrous policies on the economy, war and spying.

snip: A second agent posted in the parking lot said he saw the three "being asked to leave by the staff. The staff had identified the three individuals as potential protesters and asked them to leave."

Weise and Young have filed a lawsuit alleging that their First Amendment rights were violated. They said they were removed from the town-hall discussion last March 21 because of a "No more blood for oil" bumper sticker on their car.