Secret Service order police to block McCain protesters

By GottaLaff

This video is from WYTV, broadcast Sept. 16, 2008.

When John McCain and Sarah Palin spoke before an audience of 7,000 in the economically depressed city of Youngstown, Ohio on Tuesday, slightly over a dozen protesters stood across the street with signs saying "The fundamentals of my economy are not strong" and "Country club first."

Leaders of the protest, which had been arranged and publicized by local unions and the Ohio Democratic Party, said that as many as several hundred people had been expected to attend, but police were not letting them through roadblocks surrounding the area. [...]

The full WYTV story is available here.

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Many of those protesting were local union members. Several hundred protesters were expected but police would not let many get past the road blocks.

"I had about a dozen folks call me trying to get out here but they have the roads closed and I guess they just don't want the folks out here demonstrating peacefully for Obama," said Dave Green, president of UAW Local 1714.

The Trumbull County Sheriff's Department and Vienna police were directing traffic, but Trumbull County Sheriff Tom Altiere says his deputies were taking orders from the U.S. Secret Service and only those with tickets for the rally were being allowed through the road blocks.

'Nuff said.