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Palin entourage stops traffic on the way out
It wasn’t the usual railroad traffic that hampered commuters making the east-west trip through Greenville Wednesday morning: it was the Palin Express.
Area law enforcement shut down Memorial Drive shortly after 10:30 a.m. so Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin could catch her flight out of Greenville. Normal traffic flow resumed shortly after 10:45 a.m.
Palin spent the night at the Hilton Greenville after watching some of the presidential debate at the newly opened Boli’s on the Boulevard.
Palin, her campaign staff and the national press corps flew out of Pitt-Greenville Airport at about 11 a.m. in an Embraer-190, 100-seat twin-engine jet, said airport manager Jim Turcotte.
Airport operations continued as normal during Palin’s visit, Turcotte said, although local, state and federal law enforcement provided around-the-clock supervision of the jet.
Comments
By Chris
October 8, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this
It was full. I waited in line for two hours to get in, got all the way to the front of the line and they gave out to many tickets, it was full and I could not get in.
By Too Bad
October 8, 2008 7:38 PM | Link to this
Better luck when Obama comes back to town….
By jim hall
October 9, 2008 3:02 AM | Link to this
IN MY OPINION PALIN IS THE PIG THAT IS IN NEED OF THE LIPSTICK, SHE TALKS ABOUT BEING A MAVERICK IN RUNNING THE GOVERNMENTALONG WITH HER BUD JOHN MCSAME. WELL I SAY WE HAVE HAD A MAVERICK FROM TEXAS RUNNING THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE LAST PAST EIGHT YEARS AN LOOK AT HOW MUCH BETTER -OFF WE ARE NOW (LOL) I SAY WE ARE IN DEEP NEED OF EXPERIENCED LEADERSHIP AN NO MORE MAVERICKS. WE ARE AGAIN IN NEED OF A CLINTONISK ECOMONY FOR I DONT KNOW ABOUT EVERYONE ELSE IN THIS COUNTRY BUT WHEN WE HAD A BLANCED NATIONAL BUDGET THAT SURE HELP TO RAISE MY ECONOMIC SUTITUATION AN JUST ASK YOUR-SELF ARE WE BETTER OFF NOW THAN WE WHERE NINE OR TEN YEARS AGO I SAY NO THAT WE AREN’T
By jim hall
October 9, 2008 3:02 AM | Link to this
IN MY OPINION PALIN IS THE PIG THAT IS IN NEED OF THE LIPSTICK, SHE TALKS ABOUT BEING A MAVERICK IN RUNNING THE GOVERNMENTALONG WITH HER BUD JOHN MCSAME. WELL I SAY WE HAVE HAD A MAVERICK FROM TEXAS RUNNING THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE LAST PAST EIGHT YEARS AN LOOK AT HOW MUCH BETTER -OFF WE ARE NOW (LOL) I SAY WE ARE IN DEEP NEED OF EXPERIENCED LEADERSHIP AN NO MORE MAVERICKS. WE ARE AGAIN IN NEED OF A CLINTONISK ECOMONY FOR I DONT KNOW ABOUT EVERYONE ELSE IN THIS COUNTRY BUT WHEN WE HAD A BLANCED NATIONAL BUDGET THAT SURE HELP TO RAISE MY ECONOMIC SUTITUATION AN JUST ASK YOUR-SELF ARE WE BETTER OFF NOW THAN WE WHERE NINE OR TEN YEARS AGO I SAY NO THAT WE AREN’T
By GetAClueJim
October 10, 2008 7:28 AM | Link to this
Jim, you are the pig that needs to learn how to type withOUT the caps lock on. Get a clue - these things don’t happen overnight, they happen in cycles. Clinton rode the cycle that Reagan started and George W has had to ride the cycle started by Clinton. Go back to 1999 when the Clinton White House started all the deregulations of the mortgage industry and when ACORN took away all the assurances to prevent voter fraud. You can thank the Dems and Obama for that…….check your FACTS.