Dean Slams Bush on Town Hall Meetings

Howard Dean Says Bush allowing only supporters into Social Security Town Hall Meetings:

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said yesterday that President Bush’s policy of excluding non-Republicans from town-hall meetings on Social Security reform was “not an American thing to do.”
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Dean slams Bush on town-hall meetings

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....Trying to rally public opinion, Bush is mounting town-hall meetings across the country on a tour that began last week with a two-day, five-state swing.

Crowds at the events are handpicked and friendly. In Raleigh, tickets were given out through the offices of North Carolina's two Republican senators, Elizabeth Dole and Richard Burr.....