Liberal Pelosi speaks at conservative Texas A&M
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi steps into potentially hostile territory with an appearance at Texas A&M University.
The California liberal speaks at the George H.W. Bush School of Government, based at a university known for its conservatism.
Her appearance Monday evening is billed as a conversation moderated by the school's dean, Andrew Card. Card was deputy chief of staff during Republican Bush's White House years and was chief of staff when Bush's son was president.
Pelosi's first full House term coincided with the elder Bush's election in 1988. She was in the Democratic leadership during much of his son's presidency, becoming speaker in 2007, and once described the younger Bush as a total failure.
http://www.statesman.com/news/texas/liberal-pelosi-speaks-at-conservative-texas-a-m-2187148.html?cxtype=rss_ece_frontpage (Austin American-Statesman)
Edited to include the following coverage from the Dallas Morning News:
A group called Texas Aggie Conservatives has announced plans for a protest outside, beginning at 4:30 p.m. It will include someone in a grim reaper costume -- emblematic, the student group says, of Pelosi's role as a "job killer."
One of the protesters, Cary Chesire, was quoted in a news release as saying: "Her economic agenda is largely responsible for the continued high youth unemployment rate. Obamacare, out-of-control deficit spending, increased federal regulations, and heavy taxes are destroying the jobs that students like me will need when we graduate."
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2012/02/nancy-pelosis-speech-today-at.html
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