Was All Taxpayers Welcome to Bush’s Speech

[The Whiskey Priest]

Or, did that bastion of open inquiry and learning, Kansas State, allow Bush to screen who attended?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. screened

of course

[cfield]

2. Only students, faculty and select military

were allowed. Fort Riley got 1,000 tickets. The other 3,000 were restricted to students/KSU faculty. You had to present your ticket AND student ID to get in.

[elehhhhna]

4. media said the above plus "invited guests" and 9,000 people (?) attended.

[cfield]

5. KSU's campus paper said last week

that 1,000 (maybe I misread and it was 1,500, I'll have to check) tickets were sent to Ft Riley. The 3,000 available to students here were gone in 3 hours. I know some tickets were sent to KSU's Salina campus but I don't know how many. The rest were staff and invitation only press.
That's what KSU published Friday.

[Democrats_win]

3. Speech part of Landon (conservative icon) Lecture at KS.

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/13654254.htm

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Because demand for tickets will be high, the university said, the audience will be limited to Kansas State faculty, staff and invited guests, along with soldiers from Fort Riley.

the Landon Lecture is a good opportunity for someone on a "public information offensive."

"It's highly legitimate, highly visible, and by and large, K-State would be seen as a relatively friendly venue,"