By Gregory Korte
The Cincinnati Enquirer

President Bush's bus trip through Ohio will end with a public campaign rally at Cincinnati Gardens in Bond Hill Tuesday.

The Bush-Cheney campaign hasn't released the official schedule for the president's campaign trip, but details of the Cincinnati event are beginning to leak out.

Tickets for the rally are available at Joseph Chevrolet in Montgomery, a sales manager there confirmed. The car dealership's owner, Ronald Joseph Jr., is a friend of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joseph Hagin.

The event is at 6:30 p.m. The doors open at 3:30 p.m., according to the tickets. Earlier in the day, Bush will visit Toledo, Dayton and Lebanon, where he will talk to supporters at the Golden Lamb, a restaurant owned by the family of Rep. Rob Portman, R-Terrace Park.

A campaign spokesman said Bush will speak about "the strength, optimism and resolve of the American people in meeting the tests of our time."

Democrat John Kerry's campaign is discouraging its Cincinnati supporters from engaging in the kinds of protests Kerry saw earlier this month at Sawyer Point, where he was distracted by young Republicans chanting and waving flip-flops.

"The protesters who yelled at the senator at the event were disruptive, and frankly, rude. There is no reason to stoop to that level of political discourse on Tuesday at the Bush rally," the Kerry campaign said in an e-mail to supporters. But that doesn't mean there won't be protests. The local chapter of the Sierra Club already has gotten tickets to the event - they learned of the details through a phone call to the U.S. Secret Service - and plans a demonstration outside the Gardens.

"This is a democracy. We all have our opinions. The Bush policies are putting our communities at risk, and that has to end," said the Sierra Club's Susan Knight.

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