UA Young Democrat Banned from [Bush SS] Forum

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Why are we, as taxpayers, allowing this to continue? Please forward this to your local newspapers.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0322-09.htm
Published on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 by the Arizona Daily Wildcat
UA Young Democrat Banned from Forum
by Cassie Tomlin

A UA student was banned from attending President Bush's Social Security forum at the Tucson Convention Center yesterday.

UA Young Democrat Steven Gerner, a political science and pre-pharmacy sophomore, said he and three other Young Democrats had been waiting in line with their tickets for about 40 minutes when a staff member approached him and asked to read his T-shirt.

A 13-year-old girl was arrested yesterday at the Tucson Convention Center after she threw an egg at President Bush's motorcade. The girl and her aunt were protesting the president's speech on Social Security reform. The aunt was cited with disorderly conduct and released.
(Photo/CASSIE TOMLIN/Arizona Daily Wildcat)

Gerner was the only one of the four wearing a UAYD T-shirt, which read, "Don't be a smart (image of a donkey, the Democratic Party symbol). UA Young Democrats."

Gerner said the staffer, who refused to provide his name, asked for Gerner's ticket and crumpled it up.


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