"They aren't operating with the transparency that they should.. Everybody isn't being extended the same offer of services and the same notification.
When asked if the Democrats were extended the same opportunity to review their voters applications for completeness, Bob Poe, the Democratic Party chairman, snapped: "Hell no".
Nadal asked for the net last year when he won Wimbledon for the first time, and even though Federer did not request the same treatment, he was extended the same privilege.
Not coincidentally though, the invitation was extended the same day Hillary Clinton started flying on the same plane as her press corps, something presidential candidates have traditionally done for six months before the election.
If it were actually about the athletes, of course, those competitors would be extended the same rights of expression as whichever cocktail of corporations and Kremlinites has bought the event this time round.
The earliest African American writers sought to demonstrate that the proposition "all men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence required that black Americans be extended the same human rights as those claimed by white Americans.
In 2005 Hu Jintao, China's president, was extended the same welcome; in 2003 Vladimir Putin became the first Russian head of state to visit Britain in more than a century.
Atlanta's current mayor, Shirley Franklin, appealed for Mr. Jackson to be extended the same tribute, but Mr. Perdue -- who was carried into office by white rural voters, many of whom wanted a dominant Rebel emblem restored on the state flag -- refused, saying he could find no precedent for doing so.
Trump, who called for a boycott of Apple products, has not been extended the same warm hand from Cook or other Apple employees.
I'm extended the same courtesy.
