Vice president to visit to Norfolk on Monday

Daily Press ^ | 2/24/2006 | AP

[High Cotton]

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney is scheduled to visit Norfolk on Monday to speak at a fundraiser for Republican U.S. Rep. Thelma Drake, who is seeking re-election in November.

Invitations to the 6 p.m. hotel reception went out the week before Cheney accidentally shot a hunting partner on Feb. 11, Tom Gordy, Drake's chief of staff, said Friday. The event sold out this week, and about 400 people are expected to attend, Gordy said.

Guests want to show Cheney "that people in America still care for him," Gordy said.

"Most people that we talk to are more excited to support him," Gordy said. "They're more bitter at the media over the way he was treated. They feel like this was a horrible thing that happened ... and the media only cared about themselves instead of the condition of the man (who was shot)."

Republican activist and attorney Harry Whittington was shot at a Texas ranch after apparently walking out of the hunting line to search for a quail he had shot, according to witness descriptions.

[snugs]

"Most people that we talk to are more excited to support him," Gordy said. "They're more bitter at the media over the way he was treated. They feel like this was a horrible thing that happened ... and the media only cared about themselves instead of the condition of the man (who was shot)."

Absolutely and even where there was some sympathy for the lawyer virtually no one has expressed any for the Vice President; who must and probably still feels awful about it.