Posted on 02/01/2006 5:01:54 AM PST by kristinn
Cindy Sheehan, the drama queen who was removed from the House gallery last night before the State of the Union address for wearing a t-shirt with a political message, is not the first person to be tossed from a Congressional gallery at a high-profile event for wearing a political t-shirt.
In the early days of the Senate's impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in January 1999, a Pennsylvania man named Dave Delp was removed by the Capitol police from the Senate gallery for wearing a t-shirt that said, "Clinton doesn't inhale, he sucks."
Unlike Sheehan, Delp didn't make a federal case of the incident and took his removal with good spirit. He told me at the time that he hadn't gone into Senate chamber to protest, but that he had opened his jacket some while sitting in the gallery.
An alert Capitol police officer hustled him out of the gallery and took him to the sub-station in the basement of the Capitol for processing. The only real trouble Delp got into was when he mistakenly thought the doughnuts left out on a table in the sub-station were for guests.
Delp was released after an hour or so without being charged. The New York Daily News did a brief story about the incident which was picked up for a gag by Saturday Night Live.
I haven't seen Delp in a few years, but we always have a good laugh about the incident when we run into each other in D.C.
She was probably handcuffed, but it wasn't behind her back.
"wearing a t-shirt with a political message"
Does anyone know what the message was?
LOL ......... Cindy lookalike.
http://www.ernestfunclub.com/
Jim Varney -- Ernest P. Worrell
Cool story. And Sheehan knew well in advance she'd be arrested. It was her plan all along.
Did you put Delp up to that stunt? LOLOLOL
You're probably right. It would be a bummer to find out that she is the one telling the truth on this.
I'll tell you, about 35 years ago, I had the unhappy experience to be handcuffed behind my back.......... boy, that hurts.
I was a competitive swimmer and my arms just didn't want to bend that way.
;-)
No. We don't do stuff like that. Dave was hanging around with us that day. He had ventured over to his senator's office earlier and was able to get a pass for the trial. He wasn't planning on causing a scene.
Who, in their right mind, would wear a freakin' T-shirt to an event like the SOTU? Pure lack of class...
I believe it was "LOOK AT ME! I'M A MEDIA WHORE!" Or at least, that's how whatever it was translates.
It was the number of service people killed in Iraq plus something else. Kay Bailey Hutchinson said on Fox a few minutes ago that she also hung a banner over the side of the gallery.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/2/1/31944/23746
In Cindy's own words.
E.D. said she dropped a banner over the railing, too.
Thank him from this old lady! It was vulgar but it was a match to the vulgarity of the Clinton's.
The dems think they have scored a victory with that action, much like Reid thinks he scored a victory when he bragged that he killed the Patriot Act.
I've been pretty surprsied listening to FNC mention the tee shirt but silent on the banner. How could they know know?
The media is all about creating conflict for ratings purposes and I have to wonder if FNC is deliberately not reporting on the banner so that people listening will think it's outrageous that Sheehan was arrested merely for wearing a tee shirt.
I heard something about the banner last night on FNC about the banner, but not much. Then it came out it was about her taking off her jacket. But E. D. said this morning it was also about dropping the banner over the railing.
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