Publisher of a local conservative newspaper in Roseburg, Oregon, says Obama is ‘not welcome’ in the town
The President will visit Friday
David Jaques says the visit is a ‘grandstand for political purposes’
Jaques said Obama held a press conference Thursday before the bodies of the victims had been identified
Nine people were killed and nine injured at Umpqua Community College on October 1
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By DAILYMAIL.COM REPORTER and ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 23:44 EST, 5 October 2015 | UPDATED: 03:15 EST, 6 October 2015
President Barack Obama will travel to Oregon this week to visit privately with families of the victims of last week’s shooting at a community college.
However the trip has angered locals in Roseburg who say Obama is ‘not welcome’ in the town because the visit will be nothing but a ‘grandstand for political purposes’.
Leading the chorus is David Jaques, the publisher of conservative newspaper the Roseburg Beacon.
‘I think that’s very inappropriate, and I think it’s disrespectful to the families,’ Jaques told Breitbart News.
