Letter writing campaign - School yanks invite to first lady
Okay guys we need to get to writing the idiots again -- my letter is already in the mail
Illinois officials heed advice of gun-control activistsing the idiots again for their screwed up views please see below.
School yanks invite to first lady
Posted: September 30, 2004
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.
Dr. Maureen Cheever, Principal
Hubbard Woods School
1110 Chatfield Road
Winnetka, IL 60093
Ph. 847-446-0920
Fax 847-501-6124
so the kids dont get to meet the first lady because some frickin leftist group wants to instead use the children to make a political stab at the president...this sucks!
That's why I say you should write the letters maybe if they get buried in them we can get the point across so these kids would get to meet a real First lady
This is mean and well, just horrible.
The first lady is not going there to talk about gun control
she never talks about politics at all the children she goes and sees
a visit by the first lady is a big deal for the kids
that is mean to those children.
So
the gun control activists want to hate bush but all they have is that he didnt sighn a AWB bill that congress never got to his desk?
they are trying to hang this on GWB when he is actually blameless
and that FACT is what galls them more than anything.
their issue was sidestepped by the congress because the majority of the people DONT WANT GUN CONTROL.
They believe So much in their cause and it is lost.
so they do things like this.
it's a dang shame.
It's like that all up and down the north shore. Willmette is the next suburb north of me. The whole place stinks.
They don't mentioned that after Laura Dann left the school she forced her way into a private home and held people at gun point. But because of the anal gun laws here these peolpe could not defend themselves.
It's just a crying shame.
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I live in Winnetka Il. and my kids go to that school. A few years after the principal un-invited Laura Bush to read to the kids(grades k-4) SHE INVITED BILL AYERS TO THE SAME SCHOOL to speak to the teachers about his views on progressive ed.
"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.
AND..... had that family been allowed to possess a firearm MAYBE they could have defended themselves.... She never seems to have considered that. Her political views mean more to her than her family's lives.
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Letter writing campaign - School yanks invite to first lady 
