Illinois school snubs first lady!

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School yanks invite to first lady
Illinois officials heed advice of gun-control activists

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Posted: September 30, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern



© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

Local Illinois school officials who invited first lady Laura Bush to read to students for 30 minutes withdrew the invitation following the pleas of gun-control activists critical of President Bush's policies.

Hubbard Woods School Principal Maureen Cheever extended the invitation early last week, reports the Wilmette, Ill., Pioneer Press. But local Democratic Party and gun-control activists told her there was no place in the "sacred" halls of Hubbard Woods School for a representative of the Bush administration, which they argued has a lax stance on gun control.
Mrs. Bush had not formally accepted the invitation, but she was in Winnetka Friday afternoon for a fund-raiser luncheon. Cheever called the White House two days before Bush arrived to retract the offer.

Earlier that day, Cheever met with the vice chairman of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, Bob Williamson, whose two daughters were at Hubbard Woods School on May 20, 1988, when 30-year-old Laurie Dann shot six students, killing one.

During the meeting, Williamson warned Cheever he planned to hold a press conference across the street from the elementary school if the first lady indeed visited the school.

Bush's visit came less than two weeks after the expiration of a federal ban on assault weapons, an extension of which Bush said he would sign off on if Congress approved it. Williamson, however, said the president took a "two-faced" position on the ban, saying publicly he supported the extension but doing little to help the measure pass.

Jeanne Bishop, who is on the steering committee of the anti-gun-violence group Million Mom March, called Cheever to express the group's "great pain and distress over what we felt was a really insensitive juxtaposition of location and timing."

Bishop, whose pregnant sister and brother-in-law were gunned down in their Winnetka, Ill., home in 1990, said such a visit could anger those who watched the tragedy of the school shooting unfold.

"When I think of those people having to see children at Hubbard Woods School be political props as part of a campaign swing from a president who has been so closely associated with the NRA (National Rifle Association) and has done so little to promote sensible gun laws, it was just hurtful to me," Bishop told the local paper.

Pressure on the school to retract its invitation also came from local Democrats who said Bush's 30 minutes with the children would amount to a photo-op for the Bush campaign.

Superintendent Rebecca van der Bogert denied that the district had yielded to political pressure, though she acknowledged having conversations with Cheever over a number of calls that had come in. Van der Bogert agreed with Cheever's decision to pull the invitation, which she said was driven by the meeting with Williamson.
The link to their web page is:http://www.winnetka.k12.il.us/HW/hubbard.htm
This looks like a job for TRT Illinois! :D
 
Quote: "When I think of those people having to see children at Hubbard Woods School be political props as part of a campaign swing from a president who has been so closely associated with the NRA (National Rifle Association) and has done so little to promote sensible gun laws, it was just hurtful to me,"


What ever happened to raising sensible people?
 
Perhaps, if GW is re-elected, he'll make sure that Hubbard Woods School doesn't get any federal dollars.

You gotta love liberals. They preach about free speech, but want to shut up anyone who disagrees with them. They want fair and open elections, but they're working like mad to keep Nader off the ballot. They claim to embrace diversity, but pack up and flee when one of "those people" moves into the neighborhood. They're opposed to school vouchers but, when it's time for their kids to attend school, they relocate to a suburb that has good schools.
 
Well said Q

This has been our battle since Klinton and the million morons. They were beaten back but they're not giving up. I put the link to the school into the article with the hopes that I would not be the only one to let them know what I thought about their "ninny" action. Who cares if the guy threatens to exercise his 1st amendment rights "ACROSS THE STREET". Obviously there is no leader at that school, spineless ninny. I can't imagine any school that wouldn't be thrilled to have any First Lady pay a visit and it's Chicken S**t to extend an invitation and then withdraw. It also gave a contact for the half-witt Brady center. They have stopped using a 1-800 number (some of us liked to play with it :rolleyes: ) so you can't use their dime to let them know what you think of them.
 
It goes a lot farther back than that. It just came out more in the open then. And only because they were sure they had to power to do so.
 
It sickens me to hear about a situation like this. What a bunch of Morons. I think it would be great for my kids, if i had any, to listen to Laura Bush read to them. What a privelage. But instead, a bunch of sissy liberals messed it up, for their own children!
 
That's Wilmette. It's the city with a handgun ban--the one that tried to prosecute Hale Demar last year.

If you don't remember Hale Demar, he's the man who had a man break into his house once, steal all his keys, then return late at night. He shot the intruder, who he felt was a threat to his children, with an illegally owned handgun. He may very well have saved the lives of his entire family--the perpetrator could not have thought the house wasn't occupied when he broke in--but Wilmette officials still wanted to prosecute him

And honestly, I didn't think even they were this wacky. Laura Bush. Who can be offended by Laura Bush?
 
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