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Radio Station to Bush Twins: Come Drink in Canada
EDMONTON, Alberta (Reuters) - A Canadian radio station has invited President Bush (news - web sites)'s twin daughters, fresh from run-ins with the Texas law over underage drinking, to head north for a weekend of legal boozing.
Rock station 100.3 FM The Bear in Edmonton, Alberta, has even offered to foot the bar tab and plane tickets for 19-year-old college students Jenna and Barbara Bush. The legal drinking age in the western province of Alberta is 18. In Texas it is 21.
``We're not fueling up Air Force One, but I'll cover the tickets. Secret Service can pay their own way,'' disc jockey Matt Mauler said on Monday.
``We have a pub-crawl route all mapped out. We have a presidential suite at an unnamed hotel, which is ready to go. The mini bars will be unlocked,'' said Mauler, who extended the station's invitation along with afternoon drive-time show co-host Jake Daniels.
The Bush twins have both been charged in connection with underage drinking in recent months.
In the latest case, which happened May 31 at a Mexican restaurant in Austin, Texas, Jenna Bush was charged with using someone else's identification to try to buy a drink. Barbara, a student at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, was charged with underage drinking.
Jenna pleaded not guilty and her case is set for a hearing on July 31, while Barbara pleaded no contest and was given a form of probation, required to take an alcohol awareness class and perform eight hours of community service.
That was the same punishment that Jenna, a student at the University of Texas in Austin, got when she pleaded no contest to the same charge just two weeks earlier.
In April, she was ticketed after undercover police officers caught her drinking beer at a bar in Austin's Sixth Street entertainment district.
The Edmonton radio station has informed the White House of its invitation to the ``first twins,'' but has yet to garner a response, Mauler said. It has also told Austin media outlets of the move.
``This is, of course, a bit of a project, but we're going to keep the invitation open for the next 531 days until they turn 21. I mean, basically, what they're going through is just prohibition for college students,'' he said.
EDMONTON, Alberta (Reuters) - A Canadian radio station has invited President Bush (news - web sites)'s twin daughters, fresh from run-ins with the Texas law over underage drinking, to head north for a weekend of legal boozing.
Rock station 100.3 FM The Bear in Edmonton, Alberta, has even offered to foot the bar tab and plane tickets for 19-year-old college students Jenna and Barbara Bush. The legal drinking age in the western province of Alberta is 18. In Texas it is 21.
``We're not fueling up Air Force One, but I'll cover the tickets. Secret Service can pay their own way,'' disc jockey Matt Mauler said on Monday.
``We have a pub-crawl route all mapped out. We have a presidential suite at an unnamed hotel, which is ready to go. The mini bars will be unlocked,'' said Mauler, who extended the station's invitation along with afternoon drive-time show co-host Jake Daniels.
The Bush twins have both been charged in connection with underage drinking in recent months.
In the latest case, which happened May 31 at a Mexican restaurant in Austin, Texas, Jenna Bush was charged with using someone else's identification to try to buy a drink. Barbara, a student at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, was charged with underage drinking.
Jenna pleaded not guilty and her case is set for a hearing on July 31, while Barbara pleaded no contest and was given a form of probation, required to take an alcohol awareness class and perform eight hours of community service.
That was the same punishment that Jenna, a student at the University of Texas in Austin, got when she pleaded no contest to the same charge just two weeks earlier.
In April, she was ticketed after undercover police officers caught her drinking beer at a bar in Austin's Sixth Street entertainment district.
The Edmonton radio station has informed the White House of its invitation to the ``first twins,'' but has yet to garner a response, Mauler said. It has also told Austin media outlets of the move.
``This is, of course, a bit of a project, but we're going to keep the invitation open for the next 531 days until they turn 21. I mean, basically, what they're going through is just prohibition for college students,'' he said.
