Bush goes to the gravel pit (Mankato, MN stop)

(Originally posted in GD, where it died a quick death. Thought it would be more appropriate here)

http://www.keyc.tv/article/view/58203 /

http://www.mankato-freepress.com/news/story.php?storyid...

http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/4910479.html

http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/4910144.html

Okay, so he's traveling to Southern Minnesota today, and the best place he can get for an appearance is a gravel pit in the middle of nowhere?

I'm familiar with the town, having gone to college there, and I must say that this is the weirdest place I could imagine anyone speakking.

Could the location be intended as a deterrent to anti-Bush crowds? Will the Free Speech Zone be 10 miles away? One wonders.

how he's tough

maybe we'll have him working in the gravel pits??

the Shrubbites apparently thought it would "resignate" (Chimp - speak for "resonate") well with the locals. "Rockin' in the Quarry" is one of the annual events, along with the local symphony performances during the summer.
Just got back from the PROTEST all along the route out there.
Hundreds with tickets were turned away, including the son of local DFL politician and his friends. They had tickets (after initially having been denied them, because of who they were, ie, thinking human beings) but on arriving at the quarry were told by SS they were blacklisted. Go figure. Chimp too much of a coward to have opposition that close to him.
Local head of campus repubs at conservative Bible college here cut short a visit to the BWCAW to come back to Katoland and "hand out buttons and take out hecklers." Moron. The BWCAW would not even be here if Shrub had his way; it'd all be logged into oblivion.
The pResidential motorcade passed right by our car (my 16-year old, Sarahbellum was with me) and I hope someone on the bus was literate enough to read our signs to the little imbecile.
"W is for WAR"
"Teresa for First Lady"
"Bush: Turn the corner back to Texas"
"Bush's results: 800+ US troops dead; record job loss; record deficits; record low wages; trashed environment; trashed Constitution"
"Bush/Cheney: Fear and Smear"

One guy passed us with this gem: "Can you find me a florist who can send 2 Bushes to Iraq?"
Love it.
The stupidity of many of the passers-by was jaw-dropping, I must say...we were called 'babykillers' a couple of times (not a pro-choice message in sight, not sure where that came from) and LOTS of middle fingers extended in our direction by the "Christian, Family-values" Shrub supporters. Must have been letting us know what their IQs were, as though it weren't obvious enough without the visual.

Great fun!!

Where is it located?

I've been gone from 'Kato since 1996, so I'm a bit out of the loop. I assumed it was some gravel pit out in the middle of nowhere.

Sounds like a good protest. Or as good as it can be playing within the rules of Bush censorship.

town past SMC construction towards what they call "The Prairie." If you know where the Kasota Prairie land is, it's between that and Kato city limits.

I had to work at the time he was speaking, so I don't know of any protests nearby, but he could've held it all the way out there for that reason. However there was a massive protest downtown, plus a Kerry rally.