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Title: Pro-Bush Bus canceled; local residents will drive to Crawford for rally
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.brownwoodbulletin.com
URL Source: http://www.brownwoodbulletin.com/articles/2005/08/26/news/news05.txt
Published: Aug 27, 2005
Author: staff and AP reports
Post Date: 2005-08-27 08:33:00 by Grumble Jones
Keywords: canceled;, residents, Pro-Bush
Views: 114
Comments: 16
A caravan of a few vehicles, rather than a chartered bus, will take Brown County residents to a pro-Bush rally in Crawford on Saturday, Brown County Veterans Services Officer Billy Murphey said. Murphey said Thursday that he had decided to cancel the bus because there weren't enough riders to help defray the $1,300 charter fee. Riders would have been asked to donate $25 each toward the cost. Murphey, who is helping organize the trip, had made tentative plans to charter the 55-seat bus, but said Wednesday that only seven riders had signed up. He said he anticipates about a dozen residents will make the trip Saturday in four or five vehicles. Travelers will meet the Brownwood Coliseum at 9 a.m. and leave from there, Murphey said.
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#5. To: Grumble Jones (#0)
Gee wizz, where are the armies of "patriotic Amurikans"? Based on their rhetoric you would expect the bus to be overflowing; indeed, they would need lotsa buses. Are the Bush supporters too cheap? Maybe they got lost? Or maybe they are just figments of a FReeper's imagination.
I spoke with John Stadtmiller earlier today as he was leaving Crawford. He said there were about 7,000 people there with the pro-war/pro-bush side outnumbering the antis. John reported that all was peaceful. He did some interviews and took some video and said the level of ignorance among the bushies he spoke to was just astounding. Most believe, still, that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 911. He's going to do a show on it on Monday. 4-6 CT. http://www.rbnlive.com
Let's hope some more see the light.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestMurphey said Thursday that he had decided to cancel the bus because there weren't enough riders to help defray the $1,300 charter fee. Riders would have been asked to donate $25 each toward the cost.
#7. To: alpowolf, crack monkey, lodwick (#5)
#8. To: christine (#7)
the level of ignorance among the bushies he spoke to was just astounding.
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