Posted on 06/18/2010 8:15:57 AM PDT by Qbert
A video of Rep. Bob Etheridge physically confronting a college student in Washington brought back unpleasant memories for one former Moore County resident.
Brandon Leslie, who moved away seven years ago and is now an attorney in Oxford, Miss., said he had an encounter with the now seven-term Democratic congressman from Lillington almost 14 years ago.
In the fall of 1996, when Leslie was a senior at Pinecrest High School, he said he met Etheridge at a Pinecrest football game. Etheridge - then the state superintendent of public instruction - was challenging incumbent Republican David Funderburk for his congressional seat. At the time, Moore County was part of the 2nd District, which Etheridge now represents.
Leslie said he introduced himself to Etheridge and asked him about his stance on a particular education program. He said Etheridge didn't answer his question, so he pressed him two more times.
"And that's when he grabbed me by the shoulders, he shook me, and I'll never forget it, he said, 'Son, you need to learn to respect your elders,'" he said by phone on Wednesday. "I was just so taken aback, I think my jaw just dropped, and he walked off."
Leslie said he was angrier about Etheridge's attitude and "patronizing" tone than the physical contact.
"It wasn't to hurt me, it wasn't to harm me," he says. "It was that he was irritated and wanted to get my attention."
Leslie said the incident caused somewhat of a firestorm at the time, and he was contacted by a few newspapers, but no stories ever appeared.
That hasn't been the case with the latest incident involving Etheridge. The video - which shows an agitated Etheridge grabbing and holding an unidentified young man by the wrist, neck and shoulders after he approached Etheridge with a video camera and asked him if he "fully supported" the president's agenda - quickly went viral and became the talk of the political universe. Etheridge has since apologized for his behavior.
Leslie, a self-described Democrat who "supports the Obama agenda," said watching the video was "almost like looking in a mirror."
"He doesn't like to be pressed," he said. "He's kind of a bully."
Somebody is going to give the good Congressman an a$$ whipping of an extreme magnitude.
Maybe Etheridge was right in this situation, Leslie apparently needs to be shaken up!
How about justice for the American people from the corrupt and power-hungry slime in our government?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2537229/posts
Wonder if this is a pattern with him and teenage boys???
Somebody is going to give the good Congressman an a$$ whipping of an extreme magnitude.
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He needs it.
and I hope it gets caught on video
Ping please!
This arrogant punk looks like a skinny, pale, out-of-shape, middle-ager. Where does he get his misplaced physical chutzpah?
Is he maybe a former jock who thinks he can still bully the rest of the school?
Honest, straight-forward, solid punch in the nose needed badly.
In our pussified society, it will probably be a woman that gives it to him.
I voted against this Democrat toolbag on every opportunity. Sadly, the Dems have now gerrymandered me out of District 2. When he was NC Superintendent of Public Instruction, he arranged to have a lovely expensive new pink granite building constructed for DPU, near the State Capitol, that is known locally as the “Pink Palace”. When citizens complained of the extravagent construction & amenities during the next election season, he offered to move out of the “Pink Palace” and give it back.
Did I already mention that he was a toolbag?
It's not like he called Caudillo Obama what the Grifter-In-Chief really is - a Chitcago shakedown artist.
Rep. Joe Barton should resign NOW!
“Leslie apparently needs to be shaken up!”
It certainly doesn’t speak well of Leslie’s judgment that he still voted for Obama after this 1996 incident revealed the true natural of liberal politicians (Etheridge apparently has an ADA rating higher than Harry Reid’s! http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=16171)
"You lie, bo-ah!"
/Rep. Fists of Fury
Maybe a little rough sex?
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