Sen. Salazar seeks probe of trio's Bush-event ouster

denverpost.com
Thursday, April 07, 2005

Sen. Salazar seeks probe of trio's Bush-event ouster

U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., on Wednesday asked a Treasury Department official and a Denver prosecutor to investigate the removal of three Denver residents from President Bush's town hall meeting on Social Security last month.

Karen Bauer, Alex Young and Leslie Weise allege they were told to leave Bush's March 21 meeting after arriving in a car with a bumper sticker that read "No More Blood for Oil." They said a man wearing an earpiece, navy blue suit and lapel pin asked them to leave.

The three believed the man was a Secret Service agent, but the White House has said he was a volunteer.

In a letter to Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey and Dennis Schindel of the office of inspector general of the Treasury Department, which oversees the Secret Service, Salazar said he was troubled by allegations that the residents may have been removed by someone posing as a Secret Service agent.