From: "Mark Hessey" 


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> What I'm saying is that the Secret Service does not reimburse the local
> communities for the cost of security of a presidential visit.

Since when would any American town begrudge a visit by the president? No
doubt there are similar costs of security when the Kucinich's and
Sharpton's of the race visit a town - should the local cops just walk away
because neither of them have a chance of winning?

Last year a school girl took a day out of class to go see Bush at a state
fair, or so I thought on my initial read of her principal giving her zeros
in every class that day, as it turned out she didn't just go to see her
president, she played an instrument in a band on stage at the event.
Presumably her principal is some left-wing nut to be punishing a girl for
participating in a band at a major event with the president present, so I
wrote the state education commissioner on the girls behalf - hundreds of
others wrote the paper (IndyStar I think it was) and the following week she
had her zeros reversed.

This happened right around the time those high school girls from another
state were beating the shit out their classmates after chug-a-lugging from
a keg all afternoon - what kind of values was the stupid principal trying
to invoke in his responsible student via misguided punishment in
comparison?

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