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Code Pink calls officials' search of parked Winnebago 'disheartening'

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By | Monday, September 1, 2008

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The antiwar group Code Pink hasn't escaped recent actions by law enforcement targeting protesters at the Republican National Convention.

Group spokeswoman Jean Stevens says a Code Pink vehicle was searched by authorities about 3 a.m. Sunday. Ms. Stevens said the bright-pink Winnebago bears the slogan "War is not green" and was parked on a street in Minneapolis. Officers cited complaints about a suspicious vehicle in the area, and searched the RV, but "didn't take anything that we know of," she said.

However, a spokeswoman at the Joint Information Center - a coordinated law enforcement hub during the convention - said she had no information about any search of a Code Pink Winnebago.

The search follows a series of law enforcement raids during the past few days that have targeted members of the anarchist organizing body the RNC Welcoming Committee. Ms. Stevens said other activists aren't deterred by the raids and searches, but called the actions "disheartening."

"We almost wonder if this is a sign of what's to come ... whether this is real or setting the tone for this week," she said

Cindy McCain rebuts elitism charge

Cindy McCain defended her husband Sunday from charges of elitism by the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, saying she was "offended" by repeated suggestion that her husband is out of touch with most Americans because of the family's seven homes.

"My husband was a Navy boy. His father and mother were in the Navy. I mean, there's nothing elitist about that," she said. "I'm offended by Barack Obama saying that about my husband."

Mrs. McCain, a beer heiress who is far wealthier than her husband, also signaled she'd want to focus on humanitarian crises as first lady, talking about her meetings in Georgia last week with refugees of the recent Russian invasion.

Georgia "is a wonderful, young democracy," she said in an interview on ABC's "This Week." "We can't let it go. We can't let a country come back in and take it back down to a Soviet-style government. This is democracy, and that's what we're all about."

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