Ohioans swarm Washington to celebrate, protest inauguration

[Judi Lynn]

January 20, 2005

Ohioans swarm Washington to celebrate, protest inauguration

WASHINGTON -- While some Ohioans toasted President Bush's re-election victory, others protested his administration and the Iraq war during the elaborate festivities for Thursday's inauguration.
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"We're proud of Ohio," said Jerry Nelson, a lawyer from West Chester who was listening to jazz with his family at the Ohio gala held Wednesday evening at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. "We've been working toward this goal for years."
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Mixed with the crowd were protesters holding signs calling Bush a liar and urging him to bring troops home from Iraq.
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So many Ohioans were expected to descend upon Washington for Bush's inauguration that the president's inaugural committee assigned the state one of only two Thursday night balls devoted to a single state. Florida, the deciding state in Bush's 2000 election, had the other one.
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