SmellyFed
02-01-2006, 09:16 AM
Rep. Young's wife says she was ejected from State of the Union
The wife of Rep. C.W. Bill Young said she was ejected during President Bush's State of the Union address for wearing a T-shirt that said, "Support the Troops Defending Our Freedom," a newspaper reported Wednesday.
Beverly Young said she was sitting in the front row of the House gallery Tuesday night when she was approached by someone who told her she needed to leave, according to the St. Petersburg Times.
After reluctantly agreeing, she said, she argued with several officers in an outside hallway.
"They said I was protesting," she said in a telephone interview with the newspaper Tuesday. "I said, 'Read my shirt, it is not a protest.' They said, 'We consider that a protest.' I said, 'Then you are an idiot.'"
http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060201/APX/602010641 (http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060201/APX/602010641)
While I agree with her message, I don't think the SOTU is the place for that sort of display. Leave your concert T-shirts at home and show up in a business suit... pretend as if you're a gentleman or gentlewoman for 2 hours. Is a modicum of decorum too much to ask when 1/2 the free world is watching?
The wife of Rep. C.W. Bill Young said she was ejected during President Bush's State of the Union address for wearing a T-shirt that said, "Support the Troops Defending Our Freedom," a newspaper reported Wednesday.
Beverly Young said she was sitting in the front row of the House gallery Tuesday night when she was approached by someone who told her she needed to leave, according to the St. Petersburg Times.
After reluctantly agreeing, she said, she argued with several officers in an outside hallway.
"They said I was protesting," she said in a telephone interview with the newspaper Tuesday. "I said, 'Read my shirt, it is not a protest.' They said, 'We consider that a protest.' I said, 'Then you are an idiot.'"
http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060201/APX/602010641 (http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060201/APX/602010641)
While I agree with her message, I don't think the SOTU is the place for that sort of display. Leave your concert T-shirts at home and show up in a business suit... pretend as if you're a gentleman or gentlewoman for 2 hours. Is a modicum of decorum too much to ask when 1/2 the free world is watching?