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This seems a bit overboard. Looks like she was okay afterward, though. Fun election cycle.

Clearly the woman was at fault. If she didn't want to be mobbed and kicked she shouldn't have been promoting elitist concepts like sarcasm or irony.

Fun times. Fun, republican times.

That doesnt bode well for republicans sadly. Either paul will have to denounce the people and forget about them.

The really sad things is that not one of these manly men stood up and tackled the guy that would step on a downed persons head.

Ahtman wrote:The really sad things is that not one of these manly men stood up and tackled the guy that would step on a downed persons head.

I totally would have, I love a good riot I do.

seriously who was that guy who said,

"No, no, no" and then reached out like he was trying to jedi mind trick the woman.

Putting women back in line since 1950! Good ole GOP.

Arguments are over rated. Just skip the middle man and fix the voting machines.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Voting-machines-in-Clark-County-Nevada-automatically-checking-Harry-Reids-name-Voting-machine-technicians-are-members-of-SEIU-105815608.html


Nevada voting machines automatically checking Harry Reid's name; voting machine technicians are SEIU members
By: Mark Hemingway
Commentary Staff Writer
10/26/10 6:12 PM EDT
Clark County is where three quarters of Nevada's residents and live and where Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's son Rory is a county commissioner. Rory is also a Democratic candidate for governor.

Since early voting started, there have been credible reports that voting machines in Clark County, Nevada are automatically checking Harry Reid's name on the ballot:

Voter Joyce Ferrara said when they went to vote for Republican Sharron Angle, her Democratic opponent, Sen. Harry Reid's name was already checked.

Ferrara said she wasn't alone in her voting experience. She said her husband and several others voting at the same time all had the same thing happen.

"Something's not right," Ferrara said. "One person that's a fluke. Two, that's strange. But several within a five minute period of time -- that's wrong."

Clark County Registrar of Voters Larry Lomax said there is no voter fraud, although the issues do come up because the touch-screens are sensitive. For that reason, a person may not want to have their fingers linger too long on the screen after they make a selection at any time.

Now there's absolutely no independently verified evidence of chicanery with the voting machines (yet), but it is worth noting that the voting machine technicians in Clark County are members of the Service Employees International Union. The SEIU spent $63 million in elections in 2008 and is planning on spending $44 million more this election cycle -- nearly all of that on Democrats. White House political director Patrick Gaspard is formerly the SEIU's top lobbyist, and former SEIU president Andy Stern was the most frequent visitor to the White House last year.

Just in Nevada, the SEIU has given a lot to groups that are heavily vested in the state -- in just one prominent example, the SEIU gave $500,000 to the Patriot Majority PAC, which has spent $1.3 million against Reid's opponent Sharron Angle. They've and have dropped large sums directly on candidates:

NV-3
Joe Heck (R)
Oppose
$140,000.00

NV-3
Dina Titus (D)
Support
$344,984.00

NV-Senate
Sharron E. Angle (R)
Oppose
$225,000.00


Now the county voting technicians aren't unique here -- many of Clark County's employees are also represented by the SEIU. But it is worth mentioning, the SEIU is hyperpoliticized and has seen its fair share of corruption. (It certainly seems more questionable than Diebold, the voting machine manufacturer with Republican ties that was at the center of many conspiracy theories on the left during the Bush administration.)

Unions increasingly have a major financial stake in election outcomes, both as a matter of their own election expenditures, and as a function of what they stand to gain if their legislative agenda is enacted. Should they really be responsible for tabulating the votes? That's certainly something voters ought to think long and hard about.

Below is Clark County's SEIU contract -- On Page 75, in Appendix A, voting machine technicians are listed as positions represented by SEIU.

Contract SEIU



Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Voting-machines-in-Clark-County-Nevada-automatically-checking-Harry-Reids-name-Voting-machine-technicians-are-members-of-SEIU-105815608.html#ixzz13YXkk52B

Ahtman wrote:The really sad things is that not one of these manly men stood up and tackled the guy that would step on a downed persons head.

Crowd Psychology - 1

Traditional Values - 0

garret wrote:That doesnt bode well for republicans sadly. Either paul will have to denounce the people and forget about them.

Or...?

Come on man, don't leave me hanging!



Yeah, this looks pretty muffed up. Why stand on her head? It's not like she was going anywhere. It looked like he was trying to get a good ol' fashioned 'shoe-ing' started but no-one wanted to join in. Major faux pas. It's like holding up your hand for a high-five and not getting one.

Turns out the dude that did the stepping was Paul Rand's campaign coordinator for a nearby county.

Also he's pulling a Dick Cheney and asking her to apologize to him.

Also the police want to charge him with 4th degree assault.

I'm waiting for shipped cream pie fights. Then it will be interesting. Until then US politicians have nothing on South Korea.

Why should she apologize?

The police jolly well should charge him with assault. They've got the evidence.

You can't let people go around stepping on women, politicians and their staff or not.

Do you think they thought that the guy was in danger? Maybe they thought she was a man? She did have a short hair cut(once wig was removed) Possibly they thought that it was a man in disguise?

GG

I think they thought she was spoiling their rally.

She's a Moveon.org protester. She was. They should have tasered her first, and probably a disinfected her. Off with her head!

And someone bring me a pig I can rest my feet on.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
In other news, thanks for taking care of that pending tax increase for everyone. Oh wait...

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/get-ready-for-a-smaller-paycheck-105865093.html

Despicable. He should do time for that.

Scrabb wrote:Despicable. He should do time for that.

Nah she got the attention she wanted. Now the Democarats can go back to questioning Paul's religion some more.

Meanwhile how's that tax increase going to help the recovery again?

Frazzled wrote:

Scrabb wrote:Despicable. He should do time for that.

Nah she got the attention she wanted. Now the Democarats can go back to questioning Paul's religion some more.

Meanwhile how's that tax increase going to help the recovery again?

You know full well that if it was a Tea-party or Republican protester this happened to, you be screaming like an infant over it.

Yeah "Nah she got the attention she wanted" is a ridiculous thing to say. She got her head stood on by a bloke!

The staggering hypocricy of the Republicans astounds me, i have no doubt that If the roles were reversed Bill O Reilly and Sean Hannity would have gotten involved and attempted to laud their moral superiority over the democrats via their laughable shows on radio and television.

I don't know, I think we just hear more about the Republican excesses, because they are in opposition at the moment.

The Tea Party, for example, wouldn't exist if the Reps had won the election.

Albatross wrote:

Frazzled wrote:

Scrabb wrote:Despicable. He should do time for that.

Nah she got the attention she wanted. Now the Democarats can go back to questioning Paul's religion some more.

Meanwhile how's that tax increase going to help the recovery again?

You know full well that if it was a Tea-party or Republican protester this happened to, you be screaming like an infant over it.

No. There have been instances where that has occurred already. She was a protester that disrupted a rally. If it had been a union organized rally, she might not have been breathing after.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100416/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1642
http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2010/10/denver_republican_headquarters_attacked_--_but_why_point_fingers_in_our_vandalism_poll.php
http://radioviceonline.com/tea-party-protestor-attacked-by-pro-amnesty-mob-in-florida/


This is great entertainment, but I think we need to go Babylon Five, have each side pick purple or green, and let the two sides go at it bar fight style until one side wins or the other side figures out how to vent all the air from the opposing side's living spaces. In the interim:

Frazzled wrote:
No. There have been instances where that has occurred already. She was a protester that disrupted a rally. If it had been a union organized rally, she might not have been breathing after.

Been to a lot of union rallies? Have a lot of personal experience with union politics? Studied the history of political violence in the United States?

No?

Trying to make yourself feel knowledgeable through speculation? Forming opinions without any sort of experience with, or knowledge of, what you're discussing? Assuming ignorance is an intentional stance equivalent to knowledge?

dogma wrote:

Frazzled wrote:
No. There have been instances where that has occurred already. She was a protester that disrupted a rally. If it had been a union organized rally, she might not have been breathing after.

Been to a lot of union rallies? Have a lot of personal experience with union politics? Studied the history of political violence in the United States?

Grandfather was one of the founding members of a union thank you very much. Negotiated with one. Yea I have a bit.

Trying to make yourself feel knowledgeable through speculation? Forming opinions without any sort of experience with, or knowledge of, what you're discussing? Assuming ignorance is an intentional stance equivalent to knowledge?

So says the gym club guy...

Indeed whats your familiarity with unions there boyo?

avantgarde wrote:Also he's pulling a Dick Cheney and asking her to apologize to him.

Sounds like he's trying to... blame the victim!

Must be a monster cos he thinks he gets to Stomp.

Frazzled wrote:Arguments are over rated. Just skip the middle man and fix the voting machines.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Voting-machines-in-Clark-County-Nevada-automatically-checking-Harry-Reids-name-Voting-machine-technicians-are-members-of-SEIU-105815608.html


Nevada voting machines automatically checking Harry Reid's name; voting machine technicians are SEIU members
By: Mark Hemingway
Commentary Staff Writer
10/26/10 6:12 PM EDT
Clark County is where three quarters of Nevada's residents and live and where Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's son Rory is a county commissioner. Rory is also a Democratic candidate for governor.

Since early voting started, there have been credible reports that voting machines in Clark County, Nevada are automatically checking Harry Reid's name on the ballot:

Voter Joyce Ferrara said when they went to vote for Republican Sharron Angle, her Democratic opponent, Sen. Harry Reid's name was already checked.

Ferrara said she wasn't alone in her voting experience. She said her husband and several others voting at the same time all had the same thing happen.

"Something's not right," Ferrara said. "One person that's a fluke. Two, that's strange. But several within a five minute period of time -- that's wrong."

Clark County Registrar of Voters Larry Lomax said there is no voter fraud, although the issues do come up because the touch-screens are sensitive. For that reason, a person may not want to have their fingers linger too long on the screen after they make a selection at any time.

Now there's absolutely no independently verified evidence of chicanery with the voting machines (yet), but it is worth noting that the voting machine technicians in Clark County are members of the Service Employees International Union. The SEIU spent $63 million in elections in 2008 and is planning on spending $44 million more this election cycle -- nearly all of that on Democrats. White House political director Patrick Gaspard is formerly the SEIU's top lobbyist, and former SEIU president Andy Stern was the most frequent visitor to the White House last year.

Just in Nevada, the SEIU has given a lot to groups that are heavily vested in the state -- in just one prominent example, the SEIU gave $500,000 to the Patriot Majority PAC, which has spent $1.3 million against Reid's opponent Sharron Angle. They've and have dropped large sums directly on candidates:

NV-3
Joe Heck (R)
Oppose
$140,000.00

NV-3
Dina Titus (D)
Support
$344,984.00

NV-Senate
Sharron E. Angle (R)
Oppose
$225,000.00


Now the county voting technicians aren't unique here -- many of Clark County's employees are also represented by the SEIU. But it is worth mentioning, the SEIU is hyperpoliticized and has seen its fair share of corruption. (It certainly seems more questionable than Diebold, the voting machine manufacturer with Republican ties that was at the center of many conspiracy theories on the left during the Bush administration.)

Unions increasingly have a major financial stake in election outcomes, both as a matter of their own election expenditures, and as a function of what they stand to gain if their legislative agenda is enacted. Should they really be responsible for tabulating the votes? That's certainly something voters ought to think long and hard about.

Below is Clark County's SEIU contract -- On Page 75, in Appendix A, voting machine technicians are listed as positions represented by SEIU.

Contract SEIU



Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Voting-machines-in-Clark-County-Nevada-automatically-checking-Harry-Reids-name-Voting-machine-technicians-are-members-of-SEIU-105815608.html#ixzz13YXkk52B

Your side look bad? Do what Fraz does and post a totally unrelated article then start making unrelated jokes in poor taste adding nothing to the thread! Its a mods duty to pull a thread down as fast as possible!

Because mob action justifies mob action? Um, no.

malfred wrote:Because mob action justifies mob action? Um, no.

Because mod action justifies mob action. fixed for frazzled.

You bring the mob, I'll bring the pitchforks and torches!