Eeeek! The Evil One Comes to Alabama!

[bamademo]

Cheney here for Rogers fund-raiser

Vice president to be keynote speaker for congressman Sept. 5

08/28/03

By JOHN ANDERSON
Times Staff Writer [e-mail]


Vice President Dick Cheney will come to Huntsville early next month to raise money for the Republican who won Gov. Bob Riley's east Alabama congressional seat last year.

Cheney, making his first Huntsville appearance as vice president, will be the keynote speaker Sept. 5, at a $500-per-person/$4,000-per-table breakfast fund-raiser for U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Anniston, at the Von Braun Center.


Voters in Alabama's 3rd congressional district elected Rogers, then a member of the state House, by a small margin over Democratic opponent Joe Turnham last November.

Rogers' district, which the Legislature made more Democratic leaning when it redrew the state's congressional district lines in early 2002, is considered a prime target for Democrats hoping to take back control of the U.S. House next year for the first time since 1994.

Hosting the Rogers fund-raiser are U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa, and a "host committee'' of mostly local contributors.

They are: Peter Apple, an executive with Computer Sciences Corp.; Wayne Bonner, a local developer; Larry Capps, CEO of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center; Frank Collazo, president of FJC Growth Capital Corp.; Danny Cooper, a sales and marketing executive; Joe Fitzgerald, a defense industry consultant; state Rep. Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn; Brad Jones, CEO of Crestwood Hospital; Linda Maynor, Republican fund-raiser; William Salter, president of Intergraph Government Solutions; Britt Sexton, a Decatur developer; Remigius Shatas, a local entrepreneur and investor; William Stender Jr., CEO of CAS Inc.; Howard Thrailkill, president of Adtran Inc.; Drew Tutt, president of Regions Bank in Huntsville; Daniel Wilson, a local attorney; and Tom Young, a vice president at Intergraph and Shelby's former chief of staff.

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Of course just about everyone in Huntsville (including me) works for a defense contractor and some the contributers are from companies I've worked for such as Intergraph and Computer Sciences. I feel so dirty. :-)

[asjr]

1. Cheney

I love Huntsville! Huntsville doesn't deserve to have to put up with that slimeball.

[cosmicdot]

2. welllll ... the "host committee''

certainly looks like a nice cross-section of *-Dick korporate amerikkka

[cosmicdot]

4. sorry for the dupe

mod feel free to delete one or the other -- even though it was posted just moments ago, I wasn't able to edit either

[cosmicdot]

3. the "host committee"

certainly looks like a nice cross-section of *-Dick's korporate amerikkka

[Dob Bole]

5. EEEEK!!!

How dare Cheney corrupt such sacred soil with his presence!