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Aides deny seeking to oust activist

Representatives from Sen. John McCain's campaign said they did not ask security to remove Carol Kreck, a woman holding a "McCain = Bush" sign outside a Monday town-hall meeting in Denver.

Tom Kise, McCain's regional communications director, said Friday that the senator has a track record of allowing people who oppose him to speak out at his events.

The McCain campaign had only asked that the Denver Center for the Performing Arts complex keep people with signs out of the meeting, not off the grounds of the entire complex.

DCPA spokeswoman Suzanne Blandon on Friday stood by the statement from the day before that the McCain campaign had asked that people not be allowed to hold signs throughout the complex...

Translated: "Nobody meant to violate this lady's constitutional rights outside John McCain's town hall, it just kind of...happened! But neither the Secret Service nor McCain's staff had anything to do with it, to hell with what these people who have no reason to lie say."

Two words: yeah, and right.

This is why Ms. Kreck has a good lawyer, my friends.

See also:

• McCain=Bush: Support Free Speech, Get the Shirt
• "McCain=Bush" - worst fears confirmed
• Conservative Rocky Mountain News editorial board: Kreck's rights violated
• Video: MSNBC's Countdown reports on Carol Kreck
• Release: First Amendment Rights Violated by McCain Campaign
• Librarian carrying McCain=Bush sign kicked out of McCain Event