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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (39212)	7/31/2004 3:06:18 PM
From: Doug R	Respond to of 81568

In the meantime shrub goes for another highly contrived and highly controlled "appearance": shrub, "made an unannounced visit to the Cleveland Browns training camp in Berea, Ohio earlier today. Browns owner Randy Lerner also owns MBNA, the nation’s largest credit card bank and largest corporate contributor to the Bush 2000 campaign. Security for the visit… no problemo. Browns security honcho Lew Merletti is a former head of the U.S. Secret Service. America's top jock sniffer was in high cotton with fellow autocrat Browns head coach Butch Davis, who trades veterans who promote the NFL players union agenda or otherwise speak their own minds. bestoftheblogs.com

To: stockman_scott who wrote (39212)	7/31/2004 3:56:29 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Also... President Bush's re-election campaign insisted on knowing the race of an Arizona Daily Star journalist assigned to photograph Vice President Dick Cheney. The Star refused to provide the information. Cheney is scheduled to appear at a rally this afternoon at the Pima County Fairgrounds. A rally organizer for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign asked Teri Hayt, the Star's managing editor, to disclose the journalist's race on Friday. After Hayt refused, the organizer called back and said the journalist probably would be allowed to photograph the vice president. Journalists covering the president or vice president must undergo a background check and are required to provide their name, date of birth and Social Security number. The Star provided that information Thursday for Popat and this reporter. "That's all anybody has been asked to provide," said Hayt, adding that this is the first time in her 26-year career that a journalist's race was made an issue. "It was such an outrageous request, I was personally insulted," Hayt said later. Danny Diaz, a spokesman for the president's re-election campaign, said the information was needed for security purposes. "All the information requested of staff, volunteers and participants for the event has been done so to ensure the safety of all those involved, including the vice president of the United States," he said. Diaz repeated that answer when asked if it is the practice of the White House to ask for racial information or if the photographer, Mamta Popat, was singled out because of her name. He referred those questions to the U.S. Secret Service, which did not respond to a call from the Star Friday afternoon. Hayt declined to speculate on whether Popat was racially profiled, but said she is deeply concerned. "One has to wonder what they were going to do with that information,... were they going to deny her access? I don't know." azstarnet.com