Fifty protest Bush’s plan (Pemberton

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By MIKE MATHIS
Bucks County Courier Times

PEMBERTON TOWNSHIP — Hours before Vice President Dick Cheney spoke to supporters about the Bush administration plan to overhaul Social Security, a number of people who oppose the plan conveyed their message to passers-by.

A group of about 50 protesters organized by the watchdog group New Jersey Citizen Action stood along Pemberton-Browns Mills Road near the entrance to Burlington County College, holding signs demanding President Bush drop his plan to allow workers to set aside part of their Social Security payments to invest in private accounts.

They were joined by U.S. Reps. Rob Andrews, D-1st of Haddon Heights, and Frank Pallone Jr., D-6th of Long Branch, as well as state Assemblymen Herb Conaway, D-7th of Delanco, and Jack Conners, D-7th of Pennsauken.

“For nearly two months, President Bush and Vice President Cheney have traveled all around the nation on the taxpayers’ dime trying to convince Americans to support their risky Social Security privatization plan,” Pallone said. “In fact, the more Bush and Cheney travel, the less popular their plan becomes.” <snip>

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/112-04162005-477023.html

[WildClarySage]

1. "A group of about fifty" probably means

there were 200 or more.

[struggle4progress]

2. Yes.

[DawnneOBTS]

3. Question

Why were the protesters made to leave before Cheney got there? Isn't that against our constitutional right to protest? They sure as hell would have been allowed to do it if it was Bill Clinton.