Seeing Cheney requires signing ‘loyalty oath’
Current Affairs, Politics 08/02/2004 |Kirsten sent this my way earlier today, and then I ran across it again on Len’s site, and both times it just made my skin crawl: Obtaining Cheney Rally Ticket Requires Signing Bush Endorsement.
Some would-be spectators hoping to attend Vice President Dick Cheney’s rally in Rio Rancho this weekend walked out of a Republican campaign office miffed and ticketless Thursday after getting this news:
Unless you sign an endorsement for President George W. Bush, you’re not getting any passes. The Albuquerque Bush-Cheney Victory office in charge of doling out the tickets to Saturday’s event was requiring the endorsement forms from people it could not verify as supporters. […] An endorsement form provided to the Journal by Random says: “I, (full name) … do herby (sic) endorse George W. Bush for reelection of the United States.” It later adds that, “In signing the above endorsement you are consenting to use and release of your name by Bush-Cheney as an endorser of President Bush.”
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p>So much for open government, of the people, for the people, and by the people.
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3 Responses to “Seeing Cheney requires signing ‘loyalty oath’”
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Bryan
Michael Hanscom
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Ryan Waddell
August 3rd, 2004 at 5:39 am
From what I understand, protesting at a Bush speech means you will be placed in a “free speech zone” which is 2-5 miles away from the place GW will be. Supporters are allowed up close, of course. I still am trying to confirm this, but it sounds like something the administration would set up. Shades of England with its Speaker’s Corner, the only safe place to speak out against the King.
When did the country stop being a free speech zone itself? i know, I know…ugh.
August 3rd, 2004 at 6:01 am
Michael,
On the subject of Bush Campaign idiocy, check out this little story about an indian journalist who the Bushies would not let photograph Cheney for an Arizona paper…
Feh!
August 9th, 2004 at 5:21 pm
i found your blog via google search “loyalty oath bush”. this is absolutely insane. insane! anyways, thanks for posting the article link. make sure you get all your friends to vote this m-f’er out of office!