October 4, 2008 - 17:34

Protesters expected out in force for Palin's Northern California fundraiser

BURLINGAME - Several hundred protesters are expected to greet GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin here Sunday as she arrives for a fundraising brunch event.

Republican Party organizers have said they expect some 1,500 supporter-donors to join the Alaska governor for brunch at the Burlingame Hyatt Regency starting at 10:30 a.m.

The fundraiser, which had originally been scheduled for Sept. 25 but was postponed, has sold out.

"(Sunday) will not be a party for Palin," vowed Bob Mulholland, campaign adviser to the California Democratic Party.

"Governor Palin and John McCain are not liked in California: (They are) wrong on Bush Jr; Wrong on the economy; Wrong on Iraq; Wrong on the redistribution of middle class tax cuts to the wealthiest; Wrong on choice (women will go to jail who choose an abortion if they get Roe v. Wade overturned); Wrong on health care and Wrong for California," Mulholland added in a statement to PolitickerCA.com

Alongside protesters, Republican Party members and other Palin supporters will gather in hopes of showing the governor she is welcome in the Bay Area, said Nicholas Rice-Sanchez, a staff member with the San Mateo County Republican Party.

"We anticipate that there are going to be protesters and we want to show the governor that she has support in the Bay Area," Nicholas Rice-Sanchez of the San Mateo County Republican Party told the Daily Journal of San Mateo. "We will be there with signs, cheering her on when she arrives. Hopefully she will hear us clapping."

Rice-Sanchez said Palin supporters are welcome to bring homemade signs and meet at the San Mateo County Republican Party's office, 875 Mahler Road, Suite 250 starting at 9:30 a.m. Together they will walk over to the nearby Hyatt from there.

On Saturday Palin was greeted by throngs of protesters in the Los Angeles County suburb city of Carson.

The event, held at the Home Depot Center, was thought to have drawn as many as10,000 people - supporters and detractors alike. The Courage Campaign, an online organizing campaign of grassroots and netroots progressives in California, hired a plane to fly a large banner over the Carson event saying: "Sarah Palin: Thanks but no thanks. No on Prop. 4."

The latter is a reference to Palin's strong pro-life, anti-abortion stance and to a California ballot measure that, if approved by the voters, would require medical personnel to notify a parent or guardian before performing an abortion on a female minor.

Jeff Mitchell is a PolitickerCA.com Editor and can be reached via email at noreply@politicker.com.

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