Ark. delegation works Bronx Habitat project (but jokes, "Purple heart...")

[DeepModem Mom]

Publication:Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; Date: 01 September 2004 ; Section:Front Section; Page:13

Habitat project lets group escape convention whirl
BY ANDREW DEMILLO ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE

....For (Arkansas Lt. Gov. Win) Rockefeller and other Arkansas delegates to the Republican National Convention, their work in the south Bronx on Tuesday was a welcome break from the pomp and ceremony inside Madison Square Garden and the tight security outside the convention hall.

More than two dozen delegates and alternates painted 13 homes under construction by Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit housing ministry that builds homes for people in need.....

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The project wasn’t lacking in partisan flair, however.

As delegates rode toward the homes, (Richard Wong, Habitat’s director of community partnerships) mentioned that President Bush once injured himself on a building project in Crawford, Texas.

"Purple Heart, Purple Heart," a couple of delegates yelled, a reference to a group questioning Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry’s service in Vietnam.

"I’ll stay away from that one," Wong said.

http://epaper.ardemgaz.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=ArDemocrat/2004/09/01&ID=Ar01301

[Ducks In A Row]

1. assholes mocked our troops yet again

wish there been a couple of vets there to knock the teeth out of their heads.

[quaoar]

2. I do a great deal of work with Habitat

If I were taking volunteers to a jobsite and they started chanting that I would turn the bus around.