Allen, dogged by protest, changes schedule

[Rose Siding]

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The last-minute change in plans came minutes after a man identifying himself as a University of Virginia law school student broke in front of reporters at an event at Staunton’s Holiday Inn, forcefully asking the senator, “Have you ever used the word n-----?”

He also questioned why Allen, a one-term Republican senator and former governor, had once displayed a noose in his office.

Allen, caught off-guard but still smiling, put his hands on the man’s shoulders and offered to speak to him later, but aides quickly led the man out of the room and Allen soon boarded his bus and left....

The senator was expected to roll up to City Hall half an hour later, but about a dozen Democratic protesters, an equal number of local Republicans and several city council members and city staff who had gathered along Beverley Street were left shaking their heads.

Slowly, word spread that he was a no-show.

http://www.newsleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060825/NEWS01/60825001

[kenny blankenship]

1. Awesome!

[louis-t]

2. You can run but you can't hide.

Moron.

[CoffeeCat]

3. The law student is a DUer...

The guy who is the central focus of this story---and asked Allen if he ever used the n word--is a DUer!

Here's a link to more information and his post about it.

Kewl huh? :)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1983599