Rove speech greeted with protests, bomb threat, claims of pepper spray

[Irishonly]

Source: Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

CLAREMONT - Karl Rove, the former Deputy Chief of Staff and senior advisor to President George W. Bush, discussed presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama and gave his take on the legacy of the current president.
But hundreds of protesters greeted Rove before, during and after his speech.

When Rove tried to leave the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, at least two people and possibly a third claimed they were pepper sprayed while campus officials said they were not.

A bomb threat was also determined to be unfounded, campus officials added.



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[Bette Noir]

1. Shucks, if I'd known this was going on,

I'd have been there myself.

[Buenaventura]

2. what??? rove threatened to bomb something *again*???

[Epiphany4z]

3. ha good.... he will be at Miami here in ohio

some time in October, It is a right leaning campus so it will be interesting to see how it goes.

[diane in sf]

4. I went to school at MU--there used to be plenty of liberals in the early 70s

they must have made sure to get rid of them after all the Vietnam protests. The students had a flush-in in spring of 69 that wrecked all the plumbing in town.

[Epiphany4z]

5. I have 2 of my kids going there now

they say it is about 70% repub 30% dem now.

[crickets]

6. Claremont is a fairly liberal burg even outside the 5 colleges themselves

- or at least it was when I lived there in the mid to late 90s. For instance, I used to live down the street from David Lindley (frequent member of Jackson Browne's band), there are village fairs and community park events that consistently draw the Birkenstock crowd for concerts, etc. Jackboot security action, even if confined to one of the college campuses rather than in the city itself, will not go over well with a sizeable slice of the population. Not at all.

I wish I still lived there and could have attended the event. As it is, I still know some people in the area and will try to call around and see if they know anything beyond the official line.

[Irishonly]

7. I usually am informed

and had no idea the criminal was going to be there or I would have been there, wearing my Bush Lied, They Died t-shirt. I didn't hear about it until today.

Claremont, at least old Claremont, is still liberal. I don't know about the colleges as there is an anti war protest every Friday and very seldom are there any college students there. Residents from Pilgrim Place are there almost every Friday.
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[crickets]

11. Thanks, Irishonly!

I'm glad to hear Claremont hasn't changed in that respect. I loved living there and really miss it, really miss all of the cool people who lived in the area. Good on you folks for putting on protests. It's surprising the student participation is so low; damn, that's really disappointing. Even the Pitzer crowd is staying home? Wow. The student body was varied during my school years (early 80s) but there were plenty of liberal students then who would have jumped to get involved.

I'm still going to try to ask around and see if any of the old crowd (at least one being a former admin as well as a former student) might have more info.

Keep up the protests! :thumbsup:

[HopeHoops]

8. Dibs on mooning him from an overpass

[eowyn_of_rohan]

9. That would only pleasure him

[Tangerine LaBamba]

10. I wonder what his going rate is.

I doubt the fucker comes cheap.

What a drag, an institution of higher learning actually paying that thug to tell them anything.