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Activist Arrested for Halloween Stunt
AP ^
| 10/31/06
| JERRY HARKAVY
Posted on 10/31/2006 12:47:08 PM PST by kiriath_jearim
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine -- The lawyer who divulged President Bush's drunken-driving arrest days before the 2000 election was arrested Tuesday after he was spotted on a highway overpass wearing an Osama bin Laden Halloween costume and holding a toy gun.
Tom Connolly, 49, was charged with criminal threatening, a misdemeanor, and was released after posting $500 bail. He said he intends to plead not guilty.
"There was a First Amendment this morning when I woke up. I don't know how it evaporated with the dawn," Connolly, an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor in 1998, told reporters after his release.
Police said the costume included plastic dynamite, grenades, and a replica of an AK-47 assault rifle.
"The whole thing is just incredibly bizarre," said Police Chief Ed Googins. "It just crossed the line."
The chief said there was no way to tell from a distance if the gun was real or fake.
Connolly also was carrying a sign that said "I love TABOR," a reference to the Taxpayer Bill of Rights on the Maine ballot, but at least one person who saw it thought it said "I love the Taliban," Googins said.
The Portland attorney is known for wearing costumes to make political statements, often donning a George W. Bush mask and dancing for passing motorists.
His wife has described him as "marvelously eccentric."
In 2000, Connolly acknowledged that he tipped off reporters about Bush's 24-year-old misdemeanor drunken driving charge at Kennebunkport. Republicans said the release of the information before the election was a Democratic dirty trick.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: banglist; bush; georgebush
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To: kiriath_jearim
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posted on
10/31/2006 12:48:45 PM PST
by
RexBeach
To: kiriath_jearim
The Portland attorney is known for wearing costumes to make political statements, often donning a George W. Bush mask and dancing for passing motorists. He'll die by his own hand one day. These types always do.
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posted on
10/31/2006 12:48:51 PM PST
by
wideawake
("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
To: kiriath_jearim
For once I wish the police would have mistakenly shot the person with the fake gun.
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posted on
10/31/2006 12:48:59 PM PST
by
kinoxi
To: kiriath_jearim
How come somebody didn't blow him away for the $25 mil reward?
To: wideawake
Liberalism IS a mental disease. These people are getting nuttier by the moment.
Its a good thing that the conservatives are the ones that own all of the guns. We may need them.
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posted on
10/31/2006 12:50:59 PM PST
by
lafroste
(gravity is not a force. See my profile to read my novel absolutely free (I know, beyond shameless))
To: kiriath_jearim
Cool costume.
Maybe if I'm lucky next year I can dress as Saddam Hussein with a noose (they'd better not give that bastard the satisfaction of a firing squad).
To: kiriath_jearim
His wife has described him as "marvelously eccentric." When the divorce arrives, she's change that description to "f***ing lunatic."
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posted on
10/31/2006 12:51:43 PM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: kiriath_jearim
The lawyer who divulged President Bush's drunken-driving arrest days before the 2000 election was arrested Tuesday after he was spotted on a highway overpass wearing an Osama bin Laden Halloween costume and holding a toy gun. Well, it looks as if we have captured Osama Bin Laden. Not sure if its really him? Lets make sure. Send him to Guantanamo and subject him to some waterboarding.
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posted on
10/31/2006 12:53:57 PM PST
by
lowbridge
(A liberal is a person that will gladly give you the shirt off of someone elses back.)
To: kiriath_jearim
Why do I get the feeling that if this guy supports something called "the Taxpayers' Bill of Rights" that it is in fact BAD for taxpayers.
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posted on
10/31/2006 12:54:23 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: kiriath_jearim
...but at least one person who saw it thought it said "I love the Taliban," Googins said.BWUHAHAHAHAHA!
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posted on
10/31/2006 12:55:13 PM PST
by
SquirrelKing
(Kayaking, environmental-conservationist, organic food eating, beer loving, gun owning conservative.)
To: BenLurkin
He does not support the TaBOR - which is good, solid conservative legislation.
He dressed up as bin Laden and held up a sign saying "I Love The TaBOR" in order to associate the TaBOR with terrorism.
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posted on
10/31/2006 12:59:45 PM PST
by
wideawake
("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
To: BenLurkin
I seriously doubt that he supports TABOR. I think he was trying to assert that passage of TABOR would be akin to terrorism??? You know, women and children hardest hit! -that sort of thing. The guy is a well known lefty moonbat. He is actually dumber than J. F'in Kerry. Hard to believe but true.
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posted on
10/31/2006 1:00:16 PM PST
by
Rocket1968
(Durbin must resign - NOW!)
To: wideawake
Sounds like a demented lefty.
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posted on
10/31/2006 1:00:34 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: kiriath_jearim
"There was a First Amendment this morning when I woke up. I don't know how it evaporated with the dawn," Your freedom to speak was lucky it didn't run into somebody else's right to keep and bear arms after that dumb@ss stunt.
It's a wonder he didn't cause an accident.
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posted on
10/31/2006 1:03:06 PM PST
by
MamaTexan
(I am not a ~legal entity~, not am I a 'person' as created by law.)
To: kiriath_jearim
"There was a First Amendment this morning when I woke up.
There used to be a Second Amendment also that would let you carry a gun. :)
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posted on
10/31/2006 1:04:04 PM PST
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: kiriath_jearim
These narcissistic lefties are always so ticked off that their eccentricities and stunts actually have consequences.
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posted on
10/31/2006 1:04:11 PM PST
by
TChris
(The United Nations is suffering from delusions of relevance.)
To: kiriath_jearim
The Ghost of October Surprise Past...
To: kiriath_jearim
He's lucky someone didn't blow his brains out!
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posted on
10/31/2006 1:07:23 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: MamaTexan
"There was a First Amendment this morning when I woke up. I don't know how it evaporated with the dawn,"
It didn't evaporate, idiot fascists like this ridiculed it
to death.
Someone SHOULD have shot him!
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posted on
10/31/2006 1:10:23 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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