a civil war every 100 years or so might not be a bad thing... a little bleach in the gene pool so to speak
Posted on 10/27/2004 7:53:31 AM PDT by Anduril1
Election violence surfaces in South Florida
Published Tuesday, October 26, 2004
by Sean Salai
Election-related violence is on the rise this week in South Florida as impassioned Republicans and Democrats duke it out at rallies and the polls.
Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans and Independents in Palm Beach County, where voters last week began casting early ballots for the Nov. 2 general election, and strained feelings are already leading to hostility. In Boca Raton this weekend, county Republicans filled out police reports for shattered car windows at a Friday rally and a vandalism incident Sunday night at their headquarters.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Jenni Garrison, executive director of the Republican Party of Palm Beach County, said yesterday. “This is our first presidential election since 2000 and people are already nervous and scared about using the new machines. This contentiousness just adds to their anxiety.” Garrison said the nastiness is also evident from Republican volunteers, adding that she hopes both parties will crack down on it.
“I’ve already removed people from polling places for behaving inappropriately and antagonizing Democratic voters,” Garrison said. “We’ve also removed inappropriate signs. We’re not out there to harass the voters and behave like four-year olds. We’re there to support our president.”
Sunday’s incident occurred at the GOP’s Boca headquarters on North Federal Highway between 7 and 11 p.m. The unknown perpetrator tampered with the deadbolt on the office door, locking party workers out of the office when they discovered that their keys no longer worked.
“The brown shirts have arrived and they’re all Democrats,” said Sid Dinerstein, county GOP chairman. Also on Sunday night, a student leading a Republican protest at Florida Atlantic University saw her Ford Explorer vandalized by Democrats attending a John Kerry rally. University police responded to the incident and eventually broke it up.
“Some people surrounded us and started yelling obscenities and racist comments at me,” said Dana Roberts, FAU College Republican chairwoman. “I’m African-American and they were yelling that I’ve sided with the Ku Klux Klan. There were people telling them to stop, but they poured beer on the car and vandalized it with Kerry bumper stickers.”
Between 5 and 7 p.m. Friday, an unknown Kerry supporter drove by a GOP rally near a K-Mart on Palmetto Park Road and threw rocks and sand at rally-goers. Several car windows were broken. “I was singled out as the leader and had rocks thrown in my face,” said Jack Furnari, president of the Boca Raton Republicans.
Sources at Boca PD yesterday confirmed the two police reports, but declined to comment. A spokeswoman for the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office (PBSO) said there have been no arrests at polling places patrolled by her department. “We do have a law enforcement presence at polling places in our jurisdiction,” said Commander Diane Carhart, Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman. “No election-related crime has been reported to my knowledge.” Florida, along with Ohio and Pennsylvania, is one of three states where the presidential election is still a statistical dead heat between George W. Bush and John Kerry.
The Republican and Democratic candidates for president in recent weeks have joined party leaders for a multi-million dollar storm of negative campaigning and advertising throughout the state. Bush and Kerry, at rallies designed to motivate their party faithful, have accused each other of trying to scare the electorate in the same breath they relentlessly attack one another as radicals who very frighteningly don’t represent mainstream American values. “This is the big week,” said state Rep. Adam Hasner, a Republican representing South Palm Beach County. “Everyone’s a little bit on edge.”
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a civil war every 100 years or so might not be a bad thing... a little bleach in the gene pool so to speak
Never before have I seen my country so visciously divided!
Part of the MASTER PLAN - divided we fall?
Now is the time for all GOOD men to come to the aid of their country! (Couldn't resist).
He's dead, Jim!
Sorry you're dead. Hope you get better.
How typical... and they have the gall to call us "Nazis?"
Yep. The liberals started it, but the conservatives are gonna finish it.
After all, we're the ones with the guns!
If Kerry becomes president through massive voter fraud -- as Al Gore almost did -- it does seem it could very well push things beyond the mere "constitutional crisis" phase.
BTTT
Garrison said the nastiness is also evident from Republican volunteers, adding that she hopes both parties will crack down on it.“I’ve already removed people from polling places for behaving inappropriately and antagonizing Democratic voters,” Garrison said. “We’ve also removed inappropriate signs. We’re not out there to harass the voters and behave like four-year olds. We’re there to support our president.”
Perhaps it was just a commie journalist trying to get a story:
Here are TWO such examples from FLORIDUH:
When there was no riot in Miami over the Elian case, an LA Times employee threw rocks at the police so that she would have a disturbance to photograph. She was apprehended/charged for her actions and she failed to ignite a "rabid right winger" riot.
If there is a slow news day, the LA Times will MAKE it.
Also, fifth columnists in the GOP:
RS: Bush Like Me - Ten weeks undercover in the grass roots of the Republican Party
Goebbels would be proud of the modern Democrat party.
Wherever democrats go, they bring trouble with them. It's a given.
And the BRAINS !
Y E S!!!!
Road kill road kill
Whatcha gonna do
Whatcha gonna do
When they asphalt you
Yer late. I pinged you while it was still alive. I don't know who hit abuse, I was trying to keep it alive.
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