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To: RonDog
Fantastic...I hung the LA Times article from my husband's breakfast lamp and he was shocked. Now a Bush supporter, he was at BERSERKLEY in 1969 protesting so this really did my heart good to see how well those R's are doing. I met some of them at the R convention in Anaheim and donated a flag for their commencment. This is just plain fantastic! Thanks so much for the photos.
22 posted on 04/29/2003 8:15:27 PM PDT by TatieBug
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To: TatieBug
the LA Times article...
That would be THIS one, from April 27, 2003:
Right in Their Face:
College Republicans Rally in Berkeley

* A band of flag-waving demonstrators defiantly boosts Bush and war in the bastion of the left.

By Rone Tempest, Times Staff Writer

BERKELEY — Borrowing a page from this city's radical traditions, a boisterous band of 200 college Republicans demonstrated Saturday in the bastion of American liberalism, staging a pro-Bush administration rally on the UC Berkeley campus and leading a flag-waving procession down Telegraph Avenue.

As street vendors and merchants looked on in disbelief, delegates attending a state college Republican convention here marched two blocks to People's Park, site of a widely publicized protest incident in 1969, where they chanted "Bush! Bush! Bush!" and sang "America the Beautiful."

By Berkeley standards, it was a minuscule procession played out on a balmy Saturday afternoon on a mostly deserted campus. But to the hardy corps of young Republicans, uniting under the theme "Behind Enemy Lines," it was a highly symbolic event. Even grizzled political warriors said they were impressed by participants' moxie. Longtime Berkeley professors said it represented a political drift to the right at California's pioneer state university...

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23 posted on 04/29/2003 8:42:26 PM PDT by RonDog
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