The Denver Three (Alex Young, Karen Bauer, and Leslie Weise) have done their level best to keep up interest in their situation. To their credit, they’ve done a fine job recruiting some pretty high-profile advocates.
U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., on Wednesday asked a Treasury Department official and a Denver prosecutor to investigate the removal of three Denver residents from President Bush’s town hall meeting on Social Security last month….
In a letter to Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey and Dennis Schindel of the office of inspector general of the Treasury Department, which oversees the Secret Service, Salazar said he was troubled by allegations that the residents may have been removed by someone posing as a Secret Service agent.
Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) also did her part this week, formally requesting an investigation by the House Government Reform Committee (which recently held hearings on steroids in baseball), to determine why the Bush administration feels justified in discriminating at public events based on citizens’ political beliefs.
In fact, at this point, six of Colorado’s nine members of Congress have criticized the ejection of the Denver Three — and they’re not all Democrats.
Four members of the congressional delegation echoed the view expressed by Republican Rep. Marilyn Musgrave: “I don’t think somebody should be removed from an event because of a bumper sticker.” […]
Republican Rep. Bob Beauprez called the volunteer’s action “momentary authority gone mad.”
It’s nice to see that this isn’t entirely a partisan matter. The Bush gang has clearly crossed the line with these outrageous efforts to shield the president from any form of dissent, and there’s no reason criticism should be limited to one side of the aisle.