Kirsten sent this my way earlier today, and then I ran across it again on Len’s site, and both times it just made my skin crawl: Obtaining Cheney Rally Ticket Requires Signing Bush Endorsement.
Some would-be spectators hoping to attend Vice President Dick Cheney’s rally in Rio Rancho this weekend walked out of a Republican campaign office miffed and ticketless Thursday after getting this news:
Unless you sign an endorsement for President George W. Bush, you’re not getting any passes.
The Albuquerque Bush-Cheney Victory office in charge of doling out the tickets to Saturday’s event was requiring the endorsement forms from people it could not verify as supporters.
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An endorsement form provided to the Journal by Random says: “I, (full name) … do herby (sic) endorse George W. Bush for reelection of the United States.” It later adds that, “In signing the above endorsement you are consenting to use and release of your name by Bush-Cheney as an endorser of President Bush.”
So much for open government, of the people, for the people, and by the people.
iTunes: “Injected With a Poison (Sinsational)” by Khan, Praga from the album Injected With a Poison (1998, 6:12).