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> >
> > I won't go into too much of a political rant,
> > because it's still REALLY, REALLY COOL that
> > Sam got to shake the president's hand, but I
> > am curious about one thing: Did my tax dollars
> > pay for Bush to campaign for John Sununu?
> >
> > Ell"Secret Service agents should carry
> > oversized fluorescent orange Toys-R-Us
> > guns"myruh
>
> According to the link, nothing, assuming it was a purely political visit. But if the office holder goes and does something "official" like visiting a school, then it gets charged to the public, with a small slice being payed for by the local whoever-organized-the-thing. Of interest: I also read another news article I don't feel like looking for that said Cheney is going out to South Dakota to speak on behalf of someone, and that they are not making it into some "cheap" official visit, and that the local whoever (probably the state party) is footing the bill entirely. Oh, and I didn't bother looking to see if Bush went and visited a school or something "official"-like.
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> The Other Matthew

Um...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20021024/cm_usatoday/4561358

There.