The non-union rat made an appearance at a local Bush/Cheney fundraising
dinner but was wearing a "Dick Cheney" tag.  Cheney made a series of visits
along the NYS Thruway, stopping in Syracuse (Liverpool), Rochester, and
Buffalo for breakfast, lunch, and dinner yesterday.  He earned $200k here in
Syracuse and only spoke for 14 minutes.  How could our upstate economy be
hurting if the local blue suits can afford to pay that for breakfast and a
canned stump speech?

The rat stayed across the street from the place where the breakfast took
place.  (Pam--did he go to the luncheon in Rochester too?)

Some articles from the local paper pertaining to the visit:

http://www.syracuse.com/politics/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-13/106906
3007297370.xml

http://www.syracuse.com/politics/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-13/106914
9346296100.xml

Here's another article on the visit (included for Histo/Economic and
Not-So-Famous Follett content) on the Brannock Device (the thing used to
measure your feet in shoe stores) which was invented and is still made in
Syracuse:

http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-0/10690629672
97370.xml

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