Posted on 08/13/2008 2:34:35 PM PDT by Married with Children
Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney has died after a gunman barged into his office this morning and shot him three times.
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come on, knock it off.
We don’t know.
What happened? This is murder. Who would do such a thing?
I hear police shot the gunman who died later.
pathetic...i knew the man....Great guy, he was just a blue dog Democrat. I’m sad at statements like this on FR....it belongs at DU.
We got mad when the libs went after Tony Snow after his death.
Might be better to offer consolations.
He claimed to have just lost his job.
I think that is where the speculation came from that he once worked for the chairman.
Terrible news. Condolences to his family and friends.
Looking at Congresspedia, I see this note:
Bill Gwatney, as a superdelegate, has endorsed Hillary Clinton for President.
Next comes the Obama Hit Squad conspiracy theories I suppose.
Prayers of comfort for his family and friends. What a tragedy.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Just horrible. My condolences to his family.
Sadly though, you know this will be turned into a political thing. Even if the killer was a card carrying Obama supporter they will say this was motivated by right wing hate, and all that usual nonsense.
CNN reports he was a friend of Bill and Hill, so it isn’t such a surprise.
I find it interesting that they have not released the name of the guy who shot the chairman.
Earlier stories indicated a 40ish white guy, so why the hush up? He's dead, no case to prejudice.
Now they are saying the "suspect" is 51. If they know his age, they obviously know his name. So why not release it? Waiting to notify next of kin? I guess it could be, but such courtesy is not generally accorded the criminal is cases like this.
Yeah, this is bad. He was a pretty young guy with a family and from what I understand he was a pretty good guy, politics aside.
That is the same as I heard too. A pretty decent guy.
Next comes the Obama Hit Squad conspiracy theories I suppose.
No. This would be a plain old Arkansas Clintoncide:
"Gwatney supported Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination but switched his allegiance to Barack Obama when she withdrew from the race." LAT Source
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