From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Good grief - I'm not asking the President to not visit and this isn't aimed
at Bush. Many communities are still hurting financially and overtime costs
compound that hurt. I would say that there should be a mechanism for a
sharing of that cost when circumstances dictate. 

I agree with your actions regarding the young girl < there are far too
many boneheads in charge of a child's education >




"Mark Hessey"  wrote in message
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> "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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