Guardian: "The protesters are coming..."

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1290335,00.html

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Three years later, Bush is coming back to New York to a sceptical, if not downright hostile public as the Republicans prepare to kick off their convention on Monday. In an ad broadcast in June to prepare New Yorkers, former Democratic mayor Ed Koch pleaded: "While they're here, make nice. Volunteer to show 'em the ropes. They won't know uptown from downtown. They've never ordered pizza by the slice."

But with a week to go, the best they can hope for is that this city, where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by five to one, doesn't "make too nasty". It may be in vain. So numerous are the expected protesters at the presence of the "Grand Old Party" in the city that its Republican mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has spoken of them as a marketing opportunity. Last week he offered discounts to Broadway shows, museums, stores and restaurants to those wearing buttons bearing a picture of the Statue of Liberty and the words "peaceful political activists".

"It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach, so you might want to try a restaurant," said Bloomberg. "Or you might want to go shopping, maybe for another pair of sneakers for the march."

The protesters, meanwhile, are making their own plans. At www.rncnotwelcome.org, a website dedicated to protesting against the convention, a group called the Biotic baking brigade, spells out the basics of how to pie your enemy. Step one: "Choose a worthy target. Any evil pompous evil-doer will do for a glouping." After that, it breaks down the strategy in to bite-size chunks, including, "Plan your pan" and "The meringue is the message".
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[ellie]

1. "They've never ordered pizza by the slice?"

What backwater are these repukes coming from anyway? I've ordered pizza by the slice and I live in rural NW Ohio.

[truthspeaker]

2. further proof that Ed Koch is an idiot

dumber than the dogshit on a New York sidewalk

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

3. Did you hear Koch on Majority Report?

He is a republican schill of the highest order