The ousting of three Southern Oregon teachers from a Bush campaign rally last week has drawn the attention of national Democratic Party officials.

Democratic National Chairman Terry McAuliffe pointed to the incident to charge that the Republicans are putting unprecedented restrictions on who can attend the president’s campaign rallies. The three women were ordered, under threat of arrest, to leave the president’s rally in Central Point.

They said that a volunteer objected to a statement on their T-shirts, “Protect Our Civil Liberties.”

McAuliffe called the action “beyond outrageous” and said that there never before has been a presidential campaign that is so determined to “keep people away who have a different view.”

“The president has stripped his events of anyone who might disagree with him, which is completely un-American,” McAuliffe said in a conference call with reporters Sunday.

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