Kerry gets Secret Service protection

[maddezmom]

(02-20) 06:39 PST WASHINGTON (AP) --

The Secret Service began protecting Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Friday and may soon offer its services to Kerry rival John Edwards.

"It's a decision the candidate has to request," said Secret Service spokesman Tom Mazur.

Federal law allows candidates to seek protection if they meet a series of standards, including public prominence as measured by polls and fund raising.

"A threat could be part of that equation," Mazur said, declining to reveal whether Kerry was the subject of specific threats.
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more:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/02/20/politics0939EST0523.DTL

[liberalnurse]

1. It has subtle motivational advantages.

It mkaes him at least feel Presidential.

[JI7]

2. stay out of small planes also

and i hope kerry has stopped riding his motorcycle without a helmet. and other things he does like that.

[jburton]

3. Good

SS checks of planes and pilots is a good thing.

[Cuban_Liberal]

4. I'm glad!

I wish they ALL had it. My one absolute NIGHTMARE is the 'lone man with a gun' changing the course of democracy, a la Bobby Kennedy. :scared:

[Feanorcurufinwe]

5. Bobby Kennedy's assasination is one of my earliest political memories.

I was 8.


It still haunts me.

[Cuban_Liberal]

6. What an awful thing to remember!

:hug:

[maddezmom]

7. Edwards getting Secret Service Protection, too

http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/politics/2862208/detail.html