Friday, July 16, 2004

Lansing, MI, Cannot Afford Security for Cheney?

There's a report in the Lansing State Journal that Lansing, MI, (population 450,000) is worried about not having enough money to protect Vice President Dick Cheney and Senator John McCain when they visit for a campaign stop today in the state capitol.

Cheney and McCain were expected to draw 1,500 people to the Lansing Center.

This, in spite of the fact that Marquette, MI, (population 20,000) handled 11,000 people showing up for President Bush's recent visit to that Upper Peninsula city with no trouble at all.

How can Marquette absorb over half of its population showing up at the Superior Dome to see Bush and the capitol of Michigan cannot handle a fraction of that number?

This sounds totally ridiculous!


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