From: "Mark Hessey" 

Oh, despite past performance , I didn't think you were really
aiming it at Bush. I was more saying that it's just not something that I
see as something, budgets or not, that most towns have in the forefront of
their minds when they hear the president is coming. My hometown had about
19 cops, if he had come they'd probably have paid each of the surrounding
towns some bucks for a few hours overtime for (x) number of their officers.
Not really budget busting stuff I don't think, since it's only going to
happen very, very rarely if at all.

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> 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.  nebulous statement and there are probably too many variables for it to be
> viable>
>
> 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
> news:40356518$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >
> > "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> > news:4035626f$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > 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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