Chillicothe Gazette: Protesters try to draw attention to scandal

[PhilipShore]

Chillicothe Gazette
Protesters try to draw attention to scandal
By JANELLE RUCKER
January 28, 2006

http://www.chillicothegazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060128/NEWS01/601280301/1002

The scene outside Renick's Family Restaurant Friday was in sharp contrast to the gathering in the banquet hall.

While supporters of U.S. Rep. Bob Ney, R-Heath, cheered and spoke about his campaign for re-election inside, a group of residents protested outside.

Dressed in shirts that read, "Just say Ney to Bribes and Scottish Junkets," local representatives from a group known as Campaign for a Cleaner Congress handed out fliers while one member played the bagpipes.

[saigon68]

1. PLAYED THE BAG PIPES !!!!!

LOL That will arouse the dead in the cemetery.

[rodeodance]

2. good for them. Hope they continue-bagpipes and all.

[Maeve]

3. Bagpipes for Ney's political funeral? Sounds reasonable

Go Chillicothe!
:bounce: :woohoo: :bounce:

[tanyev]

4. LOL! Just Say Ney!

Go Chillicothians!

[cmd]

5. Thank you, Chilliclothe

You are a role model for the rest of us.

[librechik]

6. I absolutely love it--Thank you Ohio protestors!

Everybody in OH, join up! and bring your bagpipe!

[seafan]

7. Calling all bagpipers! Great symbolism for Abramoff's buddies.

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Kevin Riddell/Gazette

Jarod Hill, of Oak Hill, left, and Joshua Stevens, of Chillicothe, were among several protesters who were out Friday afternoon to have their voices heard during Congressman Bob Ney's appearance in Chillicothe.

[Earl from Ohio]

8. Why are pipers always marching?

They're trying to get away from the noise!

And a belated Burns Night to you all (Robert Burns' birthday was Jan 25.)

Is there for Honest Poverty? (A man's a man)
I
Is there, for honest poverty,
That hangs his head, and a' that?
The coward-slave, we pass him by,
We dare be poor for a' that!
For a' that, and a' that,
Our toils obscure, and a' that;
The rank is but the guinea-stamp,
The man's the gowd for a' that!

II
What tho' on hamely fare we dine,
Wear hoddin grey, and a' that;
Gi'e fools their silks, and knaves their wine
A man's a man for a' that!
For a' that, and a' that,
Their tinsel show, and a' that;
The honest man, though e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men for a' that!

III
Ye see yon birkie, ca'd a lord,
Wha struts, and stares, and a' that;
Though hundreds worship at his word,
He's but a coof for a' that;
For a' that, and a' that,
His riband, star, and a' that,
The man of independent mind
He looks and laughs at a' that!

IV
A prince can mak' a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, and a' that,
But an honest man's aboon his might,
Guid faith he mauna fa' that!
For a' that, and a' that,
Their dignities, and a' that,
The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth,
Are higher ranks than a' that.

V
Then let us pray that come it may---
As come it will for a' that---
That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth,
May bear the gree, and a' that;
For a' that, and a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man to man, the world o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that!