Two people ejected from a presidential appearance in Denver over a bumper sticker added a former deputy assistant to the president to the list of people they are suing.

Greg Jenkins is being sued because he ran all appearances by President George W. Bush as head of the White House office of advance, and it had a policy of ejecting anyone with views perceived as different from the president’s views, said Mark Silverstein, legal director of the Denver branch of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Leslie Weise and Alex Young were removed from the taxpayer-funded Bush speech in Denver on March 21, 2005, though they had done nothing disruptive. They were told later by a Secret Service agent who investigated their removal that they were ousted because they arrived in a car with a bumper sticker that read, "No more blood for oil."

Weise and Young, backed by the ACLU, are suing for violation of their rights to free speech, and hope to win a court ruling that what happened to them is wrong, Silverstein said.

They originally sued Michael Casper and Jay Klinkerman of Denver, who were involved in identifying them and removing them. After more than a year of legal maneuvering, Casper was told by a federal judge to answer questions from the plaintiffs about who gave him the order.

Casper named two White House staffers: Steve Atkiss, then deputy director for advance and a special assistant to the president, with an office in the West Wing just down the hall from the Oval Office; and Jamie O’Keefe, who was lead advance.

Atkiss and O’Keefe were named in the second suit filed Thursday, along with Jenkins, their boss.

Atkiss told a reporter after being named by Casper that it was White House policy to exclude potentially disruptive people anytime Bush appeared in public.

Over the past two years, the White House has refused to admit a role in the incident.