A small number of protesters greeted Vice President Dick Cheney's motorcade Monday, as it arrived in Jeffersonville.
Cheney was in town to speak at a $200-a-plate luncheon for 9th District Congressman Mike Sodrel, R-New Albany. The event took place at Kye's and was almost a year to the day that the vice president last visited Jeffersonville on Sodrel's behalf.
"We're against privatizing Social Security," said Dorothy Capehart, as she stood in the rain at the northwest corner of the McCauley Nicholas Building with her husband Marvin and other protesters.
Carol Smith, a United Auto Workers member, said she was protesting President George Bush's administration's "insane drive to privatize Social Security."..........
http://www.news-tribune.net/articles/2005/03/29/news/the_evening_news/news04.txtGOP should reimburse city expenses during Cheney fundraiser: officialVice President Dick Cheney's Monday visit to Jeffersonville for a political fundraiser has already caused one official to ask that the congressman consider reimbursing the city for police overtime.
Jeffersonville Councilman Keith Fetz, a Democrat, on Friday sent a letter to 9th District Congressman Mike Sodrel, R-New Albany, asking the congressman to reimburse the city for overtime city police will generate by providing security for Cheney. The vice president is scheduled to speak about noon Monday at Kye's I in Jeffersonville at a $200-a-plate luncheon.
"If Cheney were coming here to dedicate the renovation of the Quadrangle, or to speak to a church or speak to a group of seniors ... and they didn't have to pay admission ... I wouldn't have a problem with it," Fetz said. "But this is a private fundraiser."http://www.news-tribune.net/articles/2005/03/29/news/the_evening_news/news06.txt