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Subject: News Tip
Bush Schedules Last Minute Trip to All White Upper Peninsula of Michigan for Tuesday July 13, Having Said He Couldn't Attend NAACP convention in Philadelphia This Week for "Scheduling Reasons."
Bush is the first President since 1920 to not address the NAACP convention, which happens this week. He declined through his scheduler in early July to attend NAACP this week, citing "scheduling" problems.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/9132823.htm?1cHowever, it was only this past Thursday July 8, that Bush confirmed a trip to my home turf, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, scheduled for Tuesday July 13, right in the middle of the NAACP convention. He will address up to 11,000 at an indoor dome, with tickets given out free only on Sunday.
See:
http://www.miningjournal.net/news/story/078202004_new01-n0708.aspThe UP of Michigan happens to be the whitest area in America, or very close to it. ( Iowa, the whitest state at 95% white; Eastern UP has 5.3% African Americans. See:
http://www.michworks-upnorth.org/BSP.htm.) The UP also figured into the affirmative action debate at the Univ. of Michigan that went to the Supreme Court, because UP students get points at U of M, and these will all be white students.
Bush's schedule was "too busy" for the NAACP, but he had time to fly to the remote and virtually all-white UP and do a rally that no one had even thought of until a couple days ago.
Incidentally, Bush was in lower Michigan on Wednesday, July 7, so this will be the second trip to Michigan in less than a week.
http://www.freep.com/news/politics/bush8_20040708.htm Paul R. Lehto
Everett, WA
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the bushgang and the american people are like a cat toying with a mouse.