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UPDATED: Candidate misses filing deadline; Claims blogger distracted him; Files $200K lawsuit
The Potomac News ^
| May 31, 2006
| KAFIA HOSH
Posted on 06/01/2006 4:50:05 PM PDT by ReagansRaiders
Chapman is suing the operator of an Internet blog, or web journal, for defamation and his camp blamed the pending lawsuit for throwing them off course and missing the filing deadline.
...
Chapman's spokesman, Faisal Gill, said Chapman missed the deadline because he was distracted by the ongoing defamation lawsuit against an Internet blogger.
"I think he was kind of caught up with that and it was just something that he missed," Gill said.
Chapman is suing a blogger who goes by the name Black Velvet Bruce Lee and follows Manassas politics.
On several postings, the blogger and his Web site contributors ridiculed Chapman, called him derogatory names and attacked his credibility.
.... Here's the UPDATE:
The initial report of the $200,000 lawsuit can be found here: http://blackvelvetbrucelee.blogspot.com/2006/06/lawsuit-filed.html
LAWSUIT FILED! I just got a call from a reporter who asked for me to comment on the lawsuit filed by Steve Chapman. Chapman has filed against me and BVBL and is seeking $200,000 in damages.
Chapman and his attorney can BITE ME.
More to come...
(Excerpt) Read more at freerepublic.com ...
TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: amberanne; bloggers; dumbass; govwatch; libertarians; stevechapman; tortreformnow; virginia
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To: ReagansRaiders
what a minute... suing them for what??
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posted on
06/01/2006 4:52:28 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Bush lost his mojo??)
To: ReagansRaiders
Yes, I did miss the invasion at Normandy on D Day because I stopped on the beach to look for shells. I didn't think I'd pass that way again and hated to miss the opportunity to beach comb.
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posted on
06/01/2006 4:52:59 PM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. Slay Pinch)
To: ReagansRaiders
He'll be laughed out of court. Make sure you counter sue for malicious prosecution.
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posted on
06/01/2006 4:53:28 PM PDT
by
Bob J
(RIGHTALK.com...a conservative alternative to NPR!)
To: ReagansRaiders
Defamation??? Hey Chapman, your a public entity when you run for office you rear end of a bus-sized mule. Blaming a blog for missing a filing deadline?? Get your face out of the monitor and get off that plus sized planetary bum and file the stupid paperwork.
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posted on
06/01/2006 4:54:13 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Bush lost his mojo??)
To: ReagansRaiders
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posted on
06/01/2006 4:54:13 PM PDT
by
KoRn
To: ReagansRaiders
If this is not a reason for making the loser pay legal costs of frivolous lawsuits, nothing is!
To: KoRn
Chapman, public personality for missing a filing date, is open for ridicule. Yes, he is indeed a moron
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posted on
06/01/2006 4:55:05 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Bush lost his mojo??)
To: ReagansRaiders
If a candidate was so stupid that he/she missed a filing deadline, I don't care their politics, the blogger did everyone a favor.
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posted on
06/01/2006 4:55:49 PM PDT
by
Tall_Texan
(I wish a political party would come along that thinks like I do.)
To: ReagansRaiders
On several postings, the blogger and his Web site contributors ridiculed Chapman, called him derogatory names and attacked his credibility. Shrewd judges of character, it would seem.
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posted on
06/01/2006 4:56:18 PM PDT
by
JennysCool
(Auxiliary Member of the Anaheim Azusa and Cucamonga Sewing Circle Book Review and Timing Association)
To: Abram; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Allosaurs_r_us; Americanwolf; Americanwolfsbrother; Annie03; ...
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posted on
06/01/2006 4:59:16 PM PDT
by
freepatriot32
(Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
To: ReagansRaiders; All
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posted on
06/01/2006 5:00:57 PM PDT
by
freepatriot32
(Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
To: bert
Yes, I did miss the invasion at Normandy on D Day because I stopped on the beach to look for shells. I didn't think I'd pass that way again and hated to miss the opportunity to beach comb.
Yes, I'll be filing a $200K lawsuit against you for the replacement of my monitor . . . . . and other stuff (as soon as I think of it!!). Too funny!!
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posted on
06/01/2006 5:05:36 PM PDT
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: ReagansRaiders
He missed a deadline and he's blaming someone else? He must be a liberal, it's never their fault you know.
To: ReagansRaiders
reminds me of the article yesterday about the clerk selling liquor who was distracted by a scantily clad female and didnt check her id close enough..(owner fined)lol...that one I can sympathize with, this one nope.
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To: GeronL
suing them for what? Induced irresponsibility of course.
Liberals live on this principle.
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posted on
06/01/2006 5:51:49 PM PDT
by
Jeff Gordon
(Is tractus pro pensio.)
To: INDIAN_REPUBLICAN
[Suing Internet bloggers for things that are illegal or defamatory to say if they were not cowards hiding behind the internet is the right thing to do. ... I hope Chapman wins resoundingly and they wind up paying him damages for the rest of their worthless shitty little lives.]
Do you have evidence that these Internet bloggers said anything "illegal or defamatory"? If not, then you are falsely accusing another of a crime which is illegal and defamatory. Maybe you'll end up paying damages for the rest of your "worthless shitty little" life.
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posted on
06/01/2006 6:09:01 PM PDT
by
spinestein
(The Democratic Party is the reason I vote for Republicans.)
To: rolling_stone
To: spinestein
And he/she is a "coward hiding behind the internet" while doing it. This is rich.
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posted on
06/01/2006 6:15:01 PM PDT
by
statered
("And you know what I mean.")
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