School invite to first lady yanked

[luaneryder]

Hubbard Woods School (Glenview, IL) officials last week withdrew an invitation to first lady Laura Bush to spend 30 minutes reading to school children after meeting resistance from local Democrats and gun-control advocates.

Invoking memories of a shooting rampage at the school 16 years ago, members of two gun-control lobby groups told the school's principal, Maureen Cheever, 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.

Bush, who had not formally accepted the invitation, was in Winnetka Friday afternoon for a fund-raiser luncheon at the home of Aon Corp. Chairman and CEO Patrick G. Ryan, who is also President Bush's Illinois Finance chair.

Cheever had extended the invitation early last week after learning of Bush's upcoming visit but called the White House two days before Bush arrived to retract the offer.

www.pioneerlocal.com/cgi-bin/ppo-story/localnews/current/wi/09-30-04-397662.html

[laylah]

1. Good!

Now if we could only uninvite Blago, unethical, lying, phoney b@stard that he is.

Jenn