Re: Women- Pro choice T shirt gets family kicked out of Bush rally

[DaveSZ]

From EMail:


This unbelievable report just in from Michigan!

It's true. My family and I were kicked out of a Bush rally last week because of my NARAL Pro-Choice America t-shirt. They ripped up our tickets and told us, "We don't accept any pro-choice, non-Republican paraphernalia.'"

What this told me about Bush was, "If you're pro-choice, you're not welcome in his campaign." That's why when NARAL Pro-Choice America asked me to support their work, including electing a pro-choice president, I said, "Absolutely."

Now you can show the Bush team you won't be silenced by wearing your very own BANNED-BY-BUSH t-shirt.

https://secure.ga3.org/02/tshirt/nQp1z0qM1tQPh

When you buy your t-shirt, the proceeds will support the very cause to which the Bush campaign objected: protecting women's privacy rights and choice.


The Saginaw News told my unbelievable story, "The family reports that 'a young male campaign worker confiscated the offending apparel upon the family's 4:30 p.m. arrival. He returned with two others and asked the trio to leave about an hour later... The guard then grabbed their three tickets from Barbara Miller's hand, ripped them up 'violently' and told her, 'They're no good anymore,' she said."

Afterward, my husband told the newspaper, "I was probably voting for Kerry before. Now I'm 100 percent sure. Maybe I'll start campaigning for him. Maybe I'll start fund-raising." So when NARAL Pro-Choice America called and asked me to help them elect a pro-choice president by telling my story, I didn't hesitate.

Take a lesson from my family - It's not just our right to choose that Bush doesn't accept, but our freedom of speech, too.

Show Bush he can't tell us what to do with our reproductive health and he can't tell us what to wear. $30 gets you your own BANNED-BY-BUSH t-shirt. Click here to wear it with pride wherever you go. Not only will you receive the t-shirt Bush loves to hate, but all t-shirt proceeds will be used to support the very cause to which the Bush Campaign objected: ensuring that a woman's right to choose remains private, safe and legal.

And if you live in Michigan, support our NARAL Pro-Choice America affiliate, MARAL Pro-Choice Michigan, by clicking here

http://www.prochoicemichigan.org/

and learning what you can do right here in Michigan to protect choice.

Sincerely,
Barbara Miller,
Pro-Choice American

[tigereye]

1. good for her

Where can I get one? I'm tired of worrying about creeps keying my car - which is why I haven't had a pro-choice bumper sticker for a while. But when you really think about it, women not having any choices over their bodies is much worse.

ps you should be aware that someone's address? still seemed to be on the donation page...

[DaveSZ]

2. Family booted over T-shirts

http://www.mlive.com/news/sanews/index.ssf?/base/news-12/1091802209309820.xml


Family booted over T-shirts
Friday, August 06, 2004
JOE SNAPPER
THE SAGINAW NEWS

George W. Bush's T-shirt police got their family.

Campaign workers removed the Millers -- Marvin, Barbara and Theresa -- from Wendler Arena on Thursday minutes before the president's motorcade rolled up.

The Midland clan's offense?


Barbara Miller, a 50-year-old chemist for Dow Chemical Co., had carried in a rolled-up T-shirt emblazoned with a pro-choice slogan.

-more

[DaveSZ]

3. Link for t shirt:

https://secure.ga3.org/02/tshirt/nQp1z0qM1tQPh

[Bluzmann57]

4. When bush was here in Davenport, IA last week

they threw a young man out who was holding a ticket. When asked if he was going to vote for bush, he said "no". What makes this story even wackier, or more screwed up. however you look at it, is that the young man was joining the Air Force. They told him his hair was too long to be in the Air Force and he proceeded to show them his recruitment card. It didn't matter. They told him to leave anyway. What kind of crap is this, when a young man is going to serve his country and then isn't even allowed in to see his commander in chief? This Nazi shit must end!

[Leilani]

5. I hope your story was well publicized in Iowa!

Maybe some of those undecideds should know how the troops are treated by their Commander-in-Chief.

[DaveSZ]

6. Well

They also make you sign a loyalty oath to the chimp.

That's simply unAmerican.

[deadparrot]

7. Didn't the Repug governor on this season's premier of "Real Time"....

claim that about a third (30%-35%) of the Republican party are pro-choice?