John McMaim, Repuglican presidential nominee, acknowledges the audience during his acceptance speech at the Repuglican National Corporate Meeting Convention 2008 at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, MN, on September 04th, 2008. Staff at a California school were scratching their heads on Friday after their facility mysteriously appeared as a backdrop during John McMaim’s Repuglican Corporate Meeting Convention speech.A giant image of Walter Reed Middle School in the Los Angeles suburb of North Hollywood was one of several pictures projected onto a backdrop at the Repuglican Corporate Meeting Convention on Thursday as McMaim addressed delegates. “It has been brought to the school’s attention that a picture of the front of our school, Walter Reed Middle School, was used as a backdrop at the Repuglican National Corporate Meeting Convention,” Tobin said. “Permission to use the front of our school for the Repuglican National Corporate Meeting Convention was not given by our school nor is the use of our school’s picture an endorsement of any political party or view.” Walter Reed hospital was at the center of a national scandal in 2007 after revelations of negligent patient care at the facility. Reports revealed how wounded soldiers convalescing at the hospital were often lost in a bureaucratic morass as outpatients, or housed in rooms with moldy walls, holes in the ceiling and infestations of rodents and cockroaches. | 
