Why were we forced out of Bush's Social Security talk? And why won't the White House identify that fake Secret Service agent who stopped us?
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By Leslie Weise
"This article is published exclusively in Salon, salon.com."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/27/politics/27letter.html
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
Published: June 27, 2005
WASHINGTON
For President Bush, it is bad enough that his campaign to sell Americans on his overhaul of Social Security has not been considered a brilliant success. Now a flap over who got to go to one of the president's recent Social Security events has erupted in a swing state, showing the power of a dogged little anti-Bush group now called the Denver Three to irritate the Goliath of the White House.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/
COUNTDOWN W/ KEITH OLBERMAN
MSNBC
June 21, 2005 Tuesday
OLBERMANN: And also from the We`re mad as hell and we`re not going to take this any more file, rare is the life that includes getting kicked out of a presidential rally. Rare too is one that includes getting turned back at the gates of the White House itself.
But tonight, three Denver activists can say they accomplished both in just three months, exactly three months.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/21/AR2005062101583_pf.html
By Dana Milbank
Post
Wednesday, June 22, 2005; A10
The door to Rep. Mark Udall's office opens at lunchtime yesterday, and 13 chattering reporters and cameramen stream in.
The Colorado Democrat gawks. "I wish I could get this kind of coverage on my own," he says.
Indeed, the journalistic pack -- from CNN, the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Associated Press and elsewhere -- is interested not in the congressman but in the three people sitting demurely in armchairs in his office: a computer worker, a temp and a non-practicing lawyer.
Individually, they are ordinary citizens and political unknowns. But collectively, they are the Denver Three -- a political sensation in Colorado that is causing agita to a White House that has bested far more sophisticated foes.
The Denver Three's quest: to learn the identity of the "Mystery Man" who, impersonating a Secret Service agent, forcibly removed them from a taxpayer-funded Social Security event with President Bush three months ago because of a "No More Blood for Oil" bumper sticker on one of their cars.
As published in The Daily Kos:
Very rarely does the everyday public get a glimpse of what happens behind the scenes in a normally-secret Bush Administration.
But Monday, March 28, the Secret Service called three everyday people into their offices to discuss why we were kicked out of a presidential event in Denver last week where Bush promoted his plan to privatize Social Security. What they revealed to us and our lawyer was fascinating.