So, who was responsible for booting three law-abiding, ticket-holding Americans from a presidential event in Denver last month because of a bumper sticker? We learn a little more every day.
The chairman of the Colorado Young Republicans was one of the people involved in a March 21 incident in which three Denver residents were forcibly removed from a speech given by President Bush because of a bumper sticker.
Jay Bob Klinkerman, leader of the state group for Republicans ages 18 to 40, admitted in an interview that he was at the gate of the Wings over the Rockies Museum when the three people were stopped.
Klinkerman also was identified as being involved in the incident by Karen Bauer, one of the three removed. She confronted him about it at a Young Republicans event Tuesday night.
Just to be clear, Klinkerman was not the one who wore an earpiece and presented himself as a Secret Service agent. He was, however, the one who spoke with the Denver Three at the gate and told them, “Secret Service is coming down to talk to your group.”
Klinkerman apparently knows who the impersonator is, but when asked by a reporter yesterday to identify him, Klinkerman declined. He did, however, say that he had never met the man before the event March 21, suggesting that the thug is not a local GOP volunteer.
When Karen Bauer, one of the Denver Three, approached Klinkerman last night, he told her, “I won’t talk to you about that without a lawyer.” He declined to give her his attorney’s name and refused to talk to her further. No big surprise there.
If Klinkerman doesn’t have a lawyer, it sounds like now would be a good time to get one.