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.
Police also removed a Congressional wife wearing a pro-troops shirt from last night's State of the Union Address:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1569438/posts?page=1
You keep ignoring that Sheehan probably resisted. Have you not noticed the parts where the other people went willingly and Sheehan could have stayed but refused to keep her coat on?
Your concern for the Marxist liar is really touching.
Well - here's your answer, questar. And thanks howlin for posting this.
Thus far, only the Washington Post has revealed, “She was also vocal, said U.S. Capitol Police Chief Terrance W. Gainer, and after she ignored instructions to close her jacket and quiet down, she was led out and arrested. Demonstrating in the House gallery is prohibited.” (Emphasis added.)
Why was she vocal enough to get ejected from her seat – in Gallery 5, seat 7, row A? Because she was following the orders of a pillar of the radical Left. In addition to the t-shirt, Sheehan wore a pink scarf, in solidarity with Code Pink, the far-Left organization that donated $600,000 in cash and supplies to “the other side” in Fallujah in 2004. This radical organization, founded by supporters of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, has been the most vocal section of Sheehan’s “amen corner” since before she rose to national prominence. This weekend, Sheehan returned from a trip to meet Venezuela’s dictator Hugo Chavez with Code Pink leaders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans. Earlier yesterday, Sheehan joined the Code Pink brigades and another leftists in front of the White House chanting, “You’re evicted! Get out of our house!”
No.
Never mind. It was a duplicate. Sorry.
Because she did not cooperate.
Don't forget they cheered when Harry Reid announced that he had killed the Patriot Act.
You're the only one I've seen suggesting that. Not even the news is suggesting that.
The wife of the Florida Representative was described as being argumentative with the ones who removed her
No, she was not; those were her words.
Try to stick to the facts.
Don't post that image again.
Sheehan's account is bogus. From what I've heard, she never made it past the security checkpoint.
Yep. They showed that this morning on CNN Headline News to contrast that it wasn't singled out because of her past arrest in DC, she was singled out because of the t-shirt she was wearing. Both cases violated Congressional rules.
CNN Headline News had a report running about this last night, which cited the Delp incident.
Her account.
I'm not defending Sheehan...
By citing her side of the story?
You are being ridiculous. The wife of the congressman went willingly out of the gallery, which is the capitol policemen's primary concern. It was outside the gallery she advocated for her position to wear her tee shirt supporting the troops.
You aren't deliberately this obtuse, are you?
His speech was designed to expose the left. That was one of those moments.
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