President George W. Bush’s artful dodging of an Iraq journalist’s hurled shoes brought back memories of other infamous podium assaults. Strangely, former Wichita congressman Dan Glickman was the target of a number of them. At a food conference in Rome in November 1996, then-Agriculture Secretary Glickman was pelted by nongenetically modified soybeans thrown by three naked protesters. At other times, he was variously splattered with rotten bison entrails and showered with carbonated soda and glass (the last as a protester threatened to kill himself with a broken bottle). After a tofu cream pie narrowly missed his head at a 2000 nutrition summit, Glickman famously turned to former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole and quipped, “I think we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
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Rhonda: Are you throwing out a trial balloon for “Glickman for Kansas Governor”? At one time, I understand Dan Glickman was well known in Wichita as a former member of the USD 259 school board (I think that is correct) and later as a U.S. Congressman from the Wichita district.
Does Mr. Glickman now still work for the movie industry in some capacity?
In any case, he is becoming history here in Wichita. I suspect he is now only remembered by about 30% of Wichita’s voting age people.
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