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The following news item was taken from today's Charleston (West Virginia) 
Gazette (http://www.wvgazette.com/section/News/2004070734).


FEMA Worker Ordered Home

Woman, husband wore T-shirts with anti-Bush logo at July Fourth rally
 
By Paul J. Nyden
Staff Writer  

A worker with the Federal Emergency Management Agency who wore an anti-Bush T-
shirt at the president’s July Fourth rally in Charleston has been sent home to 
Texas.

Nicole Rank, who was working for FEMA in West Virginia, and her husband, Jeff, 
were removed from the Capitol grounds in handcuffs shortly before Bush’s 
speech. The pair wore T-shirts with the message “Love America, Hate Bush.”

The Ranks were ticketed for trespassing and released. They have been given 
summonses to appear in court, Charleston Police Lt. C.A. Vincent said Wednesday.

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FEMA spokesman Ross Fredenburg would not say Wednesday whether Nicole Rank had 
been fired. 

“All we can say is that our federal coordinating officer, Lou Botta, sent 
Nicole home,” he said. “We cannot comment further, to protect her privacy. 
Federal privacy laws prevent us from saying anything.”

Rank was doing environmental work for FEMA, Fredenburg said. “Nicole was 
deployed here after the Memorial Day flooding. I knew her personally ... We are 
reservists and work for intermittent periods of time.”

Fredenburg said Jeff Rank did not work for FEMA. He would not say where in 
Texas the Ranks live.

On Sunday, Charleston Police Sgt. R.E. Parsons said Nicole and Jeff Rank were 
in a no-trespassing area and refused to leave.

The White House coordinated the president’s visit to the state Capitol. 
Organizers described it as a presidential visit, not a political rally. State 
and federal funds were used to pay for the presidential visit. 

Dozens of people who attended Sunday’s event wore pro-Bush T-shirts and Bush-
Cheney campaign buttons, some of which were sold on the Capitol grounds outside 
the security screening stations.
 


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