Injured vets pull Cheney invitation over security demands
July 29th, 2008From the New York Daily News:
The Disabled American Veterans rescinded an invitation for Vice President Dick Cheney to speak to wounded veterans at a convention in Las Vegas next month, saying that Cheney’s office had imposed unreasonable security demands. Many of the group’s 1.4 million members face significant health problems. Without reasonable access to restrooms, officials said wounded veterans would be unable to sit in place for up to four hours, including two hours before the speech, as Cheney’s office had specified.
“It was a huge imposition on our delegates,” DAV official David Autry told the newspaper. To make an 8:30 a.m. speech, he added, the vets would have to get up “at oh-dark-30 and try to get breakfast and showered and get their prosthetics on.”
Cheney’s office denied the report. A spokesperson said the two-hour rule was “a recommendation, not a requirement.”
In a blog in the Los Angeles Times, organizers were skeptical of Cheney’s denial. They said similar security rules were applied during a Cheney visit in 2004.
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