Posted on 10/07/2006 2:10:50 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Protesters corner Jeb Bush in Pa.
54 minutes ago
Protesters greeted Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on his way to a campaign event for a Pennsylvania senator, and he briefly took refuge in a subway station supply closet to avoid the anti-Republican demonstrators.
The president's brother encountered protesters on their way to join a demonstration outside the exclusive Duquesne Club, where Sen. Rick Santorum (news, bio, voting record), a Republican, was holding a fundraiser Friday.
Officers used stun guns to subdue two protesters, saying they disobeyed orders to disperse, said Bob Grove, a Port Authority spokesman.
"It was a very tense situation. They were very close to the governor and shouting on top of him," Grove said.
Bush was not injured.
The protesters, made up of members of the United Steelworkers union and the anti-war group Uprise Counter Recruitment, chanted, "Jeb go home," and said Bush blew them a kiss.
Bush, accompanied by a security guard and an aide, retreated into a nearby subway station and was followed by about 50 picketers, said Bob Grove, a Port Authority spokesman.
"(Bush) was quickly getting out of the way and not wanting to engage us," said Jon Vandenburgh, a protester and a researcher for the United Steelworkers.
As a precaution, Bush was ushered into a station supply closet and stayed there until the crowd left.
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The left, if osama bin ladin was in the subway station they would be throwing flowers at his feet. Jeb Bush time for the lynch mob.
being their tolerant selves.
I would have used my finger.
Think it's safe to let them know that due to Foley the Values people won't show up to vote this year so they can just go home and sit this one out.
As I have long said, this Leftist behavior will continue to escalate until something substantial is done to stop it.
They're protesting the Governor of a state that is nearly one thousand miles away for what reason? This is a good article to summarize the state of many unions in this country. Pathetically transparent corruption.
Perhaps not the best thng to do when confronted by an angry mob.
Can you just see the headlines:
'FLORDIA GOVERNOR STOPPED BY KLINTON DEMOCRATS ON THE WAY TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF RICK SANTORUM'
that really should make PA. feel good, shouldn't it?
Usually thugs of the Democratic Party....
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Ugh... That's all we'd need right now. The president's brother's security shooting and unarmed protester.
Or they seriously hurt someone, which is inevitable. They're over the edge.
I would have liked for him to pull a Yeltsin-on-a-tank and told the crowd to go to Hell.
What was Bush Thinking? He could have just thrown a handful of nice, shiny gum wrappers into the crowd and it would have kept them busy for hours trying to figure out what they were! Think, Bush! Think!
Good for Jeb. There are entirely too many politicians coming out of the closet. In fact, there was an empty Governors closet just across the border from Pennsylvania, in New Jersey.
Now I know why the U.S. steel industry is kaput.
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