Jeb? Bush was in Pittsburgh yesterday for a Santorum fundraiser at the exclusive Duquesne Club.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that he was not received well. Not well at all. Part of the time, in fact, he was hiding in a supply closet inside a subway station!
Full article here, and some excerpts and commentary under the fold.
The fun all started when Jeb? headed for the Duquesne Club.
Protesters said Gov. Bush blew them a kiss, acknowledging the crowd of about 30 chanting pickets that was made up of United Steelworkers and members of Uprise Counter Recruitment, a tour traveling through 22 cities to support anti-war efforts.
Blew them a kiss, eh? I do hope they all managed to duck. He must have felt quite threatened, however, because he fled into one of Pittsburgh's four downtown subway stations.
"He was quickly getting out of the way and not wanting to engage us," said Jon Vandenburgh, one of the protesters, who also is a researcher for the United Steelworkers.
Once in the subway station, Mr. Bush scurried to the escalators and descended to the mezzanine level, Mr. Vandenburgh said.
The money quote from the article, however, is here.
As a precaution, the governor was ushered into a T-station supply closet and stayed there until the crowd left.
No arrests were made and no citations were issued, Mr. Grove said. Mr. Bush was not injured.
Do read the entire article, it's well worth it. I wish I'd known this was going on, I'd have definitely stopped by, since I work only a few blocks from the ultra-rich conservative haven known as the Duquesne Club.
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