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Originally Posted by host
He's a victim of his own popularity, but the SS admitted that they didn't screen for weapons, at least once, at an Obama venue last month. I want his campaign to be a breath of fresh are, compared to the regimented screening at the Bush/cheney 2004 campaign rallies....and I know you want the same.
In portland, or, tickets could be ordered online, but they went quickly.
http://or.barackobama.com/portland
If you're planning to go to this, I think this is your only option for tickets, and it might be that you have a better chance to actually get them, with this distribution arrangement:
http://nc.barackobama.com/greensboro |
In 2004 I worked security at several events for Kerry Edwards in Oregon. Usually at Pioneer Square in down town Portland. And usually checking press passes. I volunteered for the Dems that year partly out of guilt for voting for GWB in 2000 and mainly in an attempt to stop/change the direction I felt the country was headed.
I was surprised at the lack of realistic security. I almost always worked the press entrance with at least one other person, sometimes two. Not once did that other person have any law enforcement back ground. We were briefed by SS to allow only print, radio and TV press, no web based press allowed. I turned away several individuals that had home made press passes exclaiming their affiliation with what was likely their own blog. I have serious reason to suspect my co-volunteers let everyone through. So, basically if you wanted to get close to Kerry or Edwards head to your local Kinkos.
I got an e-mail a couple weeks ago asking if I'd be willing to help out for Obama's visit last week. I updated my e-mail with them, but never explained I no longer live in Oregon. Kind of made me wish I was still in Oregon, would have liked to have been there.
On a side note- I notice Obama filled the old Memorial Coliseum, which holds about 10K. Kerry and Edwards filled the Pioneer Square which holds a few hundred (maybe a thousand?) I wonder if Obama could have filled the Rose Garden? It can hold 25K+.