{"id":2234,"date":"2004-08-02T09:27:11","date_gmt":"2004-08-02T14:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2234.html"},"modified":"2004-08-02T09:27:11","modified_gmt":"2004-08-02T14:27:11","slug":"dem-couldnt-force-open-cheney-event-in-nm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/dem-couldnt-force-open-cheney-event-in-nm\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem couldn&#8217;t force open Cheney event in NM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just to wrap up an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/002232.html\">item<\/a> from Friday, I wanted to note that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/elex\/204620elex07-30-04.htm\">written pledges<\/a> required to obtain a ticket to hear Dick Cheney speak didn&#8217;t go through without a fight. Unfortunately, however, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A29549-2004Jul31.html\">fight was unsuccessful<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Albuquerque man has lost a court bid to have a rally where Vice President Dick Cheney is to speak opened to people of all political affiliations. Cheney is scheduled to speak at a Rio Rancho school Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Albuquerque attorney Susan Chappell, a Democrat, filed a petition against the Republican rally late Friday afternoon on behalf of John Wade.<\/p>\n<p>Wade, a Democrat, and at least one other man were asked a number of questions Thursday and then told they must sign a pledge of support for President Bush before receiving tickets. Wade signed the petition and got the tickets, but then promptly returned them and took back the petition.<\/p>\n<p>The petition for a temporary restraining order argued that requiring an endorsement as a prerequisite to attending the rally at a public school violates the constitutional protections of free speech and freedom of assembly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alas, it was too late.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nState District Judge Ted Baca considered the case a couple of hours before Cheney&#8217;s event, but rejected Wade&#8217;s petition because the state GOP was never informed that it was being taken to court.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the GOP still couldn&#8217;t figure out a way to spin this nonsense.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democrats, independents and others are welcome as long as they like Bush and Cheney, Yier Shi, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;re free to believe anything you want, as long as you agree that the president is right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just to wrap up an item from Friday, I wanted to note that the written pledges required to obtain a ticket to hear Dick Cheney speak didn&#8217;t go through without a fight. Unfortunately, however, the fight was unsuccessful. An Albuquerque man has lost a court bid to have a rally where Vice President Dick Cheney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}