"Over 500 people have 'SIGNED UP' to hear Laura Bush campaign"

[Bluebear]

At least 500 people have signed up to attend a campaign event featuring First Lady Laura Bush on Wednesday in Radcliff, a spokesman for U.S. Rep. Ron Lewis said.

The public event is part of a multi-state campaign swing that Bush is making on behalf of Republican candidates in the final week before next Tuesday’s midterm elections. She’s also visiting Ohio and Tennessee this week.

Lewis, R-2nd District, is being challenged by Democrat Mike Weaver. The district includes a small portion of Jefferson County.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061031/NEWS01/61031046

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QUESTION: How did these 500 people 'sign up'? Is this event open to the public? And who is footing the bill for this multi-state campaign romp?

[bryant69]

1. Does she ever take a good picture?

I mean I know that we love putting up the pictures of those we hate looking stupid - fair enough, since they do it to us - but I've never seen a picture of her where she didn't look kind of scary. I've seen pictures of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld looking normal, but not her.

Bryant
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[SammyWinstonJack]

2. Scary!

:scared: We are footing the bill for this. :grr:

[Bluerthanblue]

3. thats kind of funny, she was campaigning here in

N.H., and they were saying on NPR that you could get a ticket (there were lots of free seats) in exchange for working the republican phone banks for awhile-

I almost considered doing it, and then asking people if they really understood what they were voting for-...... I'm sure I'd have gotten escorted out pretty quickly- plus, I don't think I could have sat through a talk by "dicktor Laura."

[karlrschneider]

4. Uh, the article you linked says "free and open to the public"...

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[Bluebear]

5. Would that I lived there to see how "free and open" it is.

As the NH poster above pointed out, up here you had to work the GOP phone banks to get a seat to see her spout off.

[karlrschneider]

6. I guess I didn't say that very well. Probably needed a sarcasm thingy

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[Bluebear]

8. Nah..

I know you! :)

[sakabatou]

7. Means screened and made to sign a pledge

[Roland99]

9. Pretty conservative area of Ky

E-town just only recently went "moist" (allowing alcohol - beer - in chain-type restaurants)