Posted on 01/13/2008 10:21:43 AM PST by mnehring
Jennifer Call's eyes searched the office for nothing in particular. Her arms waved and her fear spilled out.
"This is where I grew up," Sutton's town clerk said yesterday. "This is my hometown, this is where my family is, and all of sudden, my name is being splashed across the internet as this horrible person. And the frightening part is, I don't know these people and they don't know me."
Call wants the nationwide army of boisterous Ron Paul supporters, believers in more conspiracy theories than Oliver Stone, to know that she's committed no crime.
Not treason, as the dozens of phone callers screamed. Not fraud, as the dozens of e-mails charged. Nothing.
Human error, by someone unknown, caused Call's office to claim Paul received zero votes from the town during Tuesday's first-in-the-nation primary.
Paul actually got a whopping 31 votes.
Out of 920 cast.
Launch an investigation. Alert the media.
The mistake was corrected early the next morning, but that hardly mattered. The Paul machine, upon reading the number in print, quickly went into counteroffensive mode.
This is luck at its worst. Screw up Rudy Giuliani's vote total. Or John McCain's. Or John Edwards's. Or Bill Richardson's.
But never, ever get anything wrong when it comes to Paul and his voting tally. If you do, fans who shouted from the rooftops through the primary season will track you down and chew you out.
"Most of the these people are not rational," Call said.
Call, 35, arrived at the Pillsbury Memorial Hall Tuesday morning at 7 for the start of a marathon day. About a dozen or so staffers coordinated the effort, guiding voters, counting votes, rechecking totals.
Paul's 31 votes got lost in the shuffle, lost in translation between moderator Greg Hill's voice and Call's pen.
The slot next to Paul's name on the original return sheet said 31, but a space on Call's return, next to Paul's name, remained blank.
"He's (Gill) reading off his results, I'm writing them down on the return," Call said. "I don't know why it was blank. I don't know if he skipped over it or if someone interrupted him to repeat the last name and it got skipped, or maybe I missed it. It was that simple."
No it wasn't.
Call was met by town officials the next morning at 9:30. They told her the mistake had been rectified. Call, her jacket still on, was confused.
"What are you talking about?" she asked.
She was told someone had come in and said he'd voted for Paul. The voter noticed the "0" in the local newspaper and wanted an explanation. When he got it, he left, satisfied.
Call phoned the Secretary of State's office and re-faxed the form, the one with a circled "31" next to Paul's name. Just to make sure.
Then it hit, like one of those snowstorms last month. Call got a call from someone named Bob. No last name. She remembers the man identifying himself as a reporter for the Associated Press, looking for the story on voter fraud.
She said she'd fetch the details, then call him back, thinking the media would need a strict timeline and every tidbit available.
"I'm thinking he's legitimate," Call said. "I call Bob back and it's a fax machine. I called AP and asked for Bob. They told me a reporter would have given a last name."
Others in the office received calls and e-mails. But Call was the name out front, the town clerk as well as the tax collector. She was labeled the brains behind the plot. She had the biggest target on her back.
The assault picked up after lunch. Paul supporters phoning Call claimed to be from the media. Others just yelled, saying she had committed treason, fraud. One person said she should be shot. She received as many as 40 calls that day.
"One person said he was on a nationally syndicated radio station," Call said, "and he has given out my phone number and they need to call the town of Sutton to find out why there's voter fraud."
The voices came from everywhere. California. Ohio. Florida. Michigan. Very few were from New Hampshire.
A man from Texas e-mailed that he was "contacting, by certified mail, the Attorney General of New Hampshire . . . and requesting a complete investigation and prosecution of any and all parties involved."
A police dispatcher in New London said yesterday she'd received inquiries about the clerk's office phone.
Call got a handful of calls that night at home, refusing to pick up whenever an out-of-state number appeared on her screen.
She got about five more the next day in her office. She tried to get work done. She called the Massachusetts company that makes the licenses for dog owners in her area. The guy had heard of her.
"Wow," the man said. "This is the second time this week I've seen your name."
"Where?" Call asked.
"I've gotten a dozen e-mails about how you've destroyed the New Hampshire primary."
"Why?"
"We make voting machines."
"The problem is," Call said yesterday, "we don't use voting machines."
She went home and locked her doors. She called her mother in North Carolina. She cried. The calls kept coming. She unhooked her answering machine and requested an unlisted number.
"I was drained emotionally and physically," Call said. "That's when I really started to freak out. Thursday it hit me, that most of these people are not rational. That's when I became scared."
It's calmer now. The calls and e-mails had stopped as of yesterday afternoon. Call had the day off, but she went into her office to retrieve some paperwork.
She's hurt and nervous, but she's got a job.
"I've got a school board meeting Saturday," Call said. "I've got to be ready."
She probably needs to look out for a Paulistinian suicide bomber...they’re that fanatical.
Join the Ron Paul Revolution, or else, because we know where you live.
The other article was pulled because it’s a Gannet link but it’s still in Google cache
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004121278_iran12.html
That’s the original article, from Navy Times
That’s another BS lie on your part.
“Rather than address the boston.com article in which Fred is quoted as saying he represented Aristide for free, 2 weeks after Aristide publicly talked about the sweet smell of necklacing opponents, he kept pointing back to some article he tied by 3 degrees of separation to an antiwar.com writer who I said I think is a whackjob.”
I did address the article but you want to keep whining so you can make a mountain out of a mole hill over one phone call, so that’s ANOTHER lie on your part.
But OMG Thompson didn’t bill anyone for the time to make ONE PHONE CALL....The outrage! /sarc
“To make matters worse, 2cav never acknowledged it - instead he said its OK, they were necklacing people from the Tonton Macoutes. Who cares? Aristide was the allegedly democratically elected leader, also an avowed marxist and voodoo nut, and Fred represented him for free - even though Aristide had just advocated extrajudicial justice. SO much for the rule of law, eh?”
I never said it was OK, so that’s lie number three on your part.
“That’s trolling if I ever heard of it!”
No cupcake, trolling is when someone like you lies about what is said. You have a track record of intentionally and underhandedly taking parts of what I say and using them out of context just to smear me.
“Now you’re misrepresenting the entire exchange on this thread. You have yet to condemn one person for namecalling, except me, and there is not one post of my doing that on this thread.”
And you’re not misrepresenting the exchange?
ROFLMAO!
“I don’t appreciate you stalking me from thread to thread, though.”
Allegra posted in this thread before you slithered in here chief.
Anyone interested can read my posts on this thread to you, and follow them back up, as well as the other thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1952012/posts
Basically any post in which I have linked to your previous comments.
If she can’t take the heat, she shouldn’t be in the kitchen.
Sorry, but posting two contradictory statements in the same paragraph would hardly equate a condemnation.
“Who knows, maybe it was a Paul hater who is now posting on this thread, to make him look bad?”
My original statement stands based on what I quoted above as well as your track record.
“I did it several posts before hers.
Don’t blame me - work on your reading comprehension.”
This is what Nautinurse said in post 45:
“How about this: Give us your home phone number, work number, email address—and a meager 40 of us will call you at home, work, and spam your email saying all sorts of things. Maybe one threat will get mentioned in the news report.
That woman was so frightened, she changed her telephone number.
We’ll wait patiently for your info.”
This is what I replied TO HER with:
“He’ll never do it.”
So based on your reply, does that mean you already posted YOUR phone number in this thread before she said the above?
What was that you said about reading comprehension again skippy?
“What was that you said about reading comprehension again skippy?”
You’re right in this one case - I thought the post was from the challenge to condemn the one whacko who made a death threat - that’s the one I did 2 posts before being asked to.
Get back to me when you answer one of my challenges to you.
All you do is claim i’m making ‘excuses’ rather than answering.
Cute almost.
Did I say it was on this forum?
They were NOT asking for an interview.
So that’s ANOTHER excuse on your part for the actions of a group of thugs.
“They were NOT asking for an interview.”
Watch the video - clearly throughout -
“Hey Sean how about an interview! How about an interview, Sean?”
Absolutely not. Being harassed, stalked, lied to, and threatened is not part of her job description.
You did no such thing.
YOUR post in #36:
QUOTE To: mnehrling; Revelation 911
They flubbed up the vote totals.
We should expect better of election officials!
“The assault picked up after lunch. Paul supporters phoning Call claimed to be from the media. Others just yelled, saying she had committed treason, fraud. One person said she should be shot. She received as many as 40 calls that day”
So 40 calls, 1 dope made a threat.
Run for the hills! ALL Paul supporters and Paul himself must be nuts.
Let the pile on begin!
36 posted on 01/13/2008 10:47:31 AM PST by GovernmentIsTheProblem [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ] /QUOTE
Posts 30 thru 35 were by:
30 posted on 01/13/2008 10:42:58 AM PST by odin219
31 posted on 01/13/2008 10:45:00 AM PST by Brilliant
32 posted on 01/13/2008 10:45:31 AM PST by highlander_UW
33 posted on 01/13/2008 10:45:47 AM PST by John D
34 posted on 01/13/2008 10:46:20 AM PST by AnAmericanMother
35 posted on 01/13/2008 10:47:13 AM PST by Schnucki
36 (your post as quoted above)
Her reply to what you said in post #36:
QUOTE To: GovernmentIsTheProblem
How about this: Give us your home phone number, work number, email address--and a meager 40 of us will call you at home, work, and spam your email saying all sorts of things. Maybe one threat will get mentioned in the news report. That woman was so frightened, she changed her telephone number.
We'll wait patiently for your info.
45 posted on 01/13/2008 11:04:18 AM PST by NautiNurse (Plants are people too)[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies | Report Abuse ] /QUOTE
This is what I said in reply to what NautiNurse said in #45:
QUOTE To: NautiNurse
He’ll never do it.
134 posted on 01/13/2008 3:09:34 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies | Report Abuse ] /QUOTE
She challenged you in post #45 did she not?
2 posts before that would be post #43 would it not?
YOUR POST:
QUOTE To: ozzymandus
What brownshirts?
THey reported the wrong numbers.
People called them. When you screw up big like this, expect people to call you on it.
ONE person called and made a threat. Who knows, maybe it was a Paul hater who is now posting on this thread, to make him look bad? Who knows? Whomever did that was totally out of line, I condemn that kind of threat totally.
Still, we’re talking about 40 calls one day, and a handful over following days. But for those who are scared of the idea of limited government, Paul is a threat.
Every other candidate in the GOP debate talked about some other program they would initiate. Particularly in the area of job retraining and education. Why is this federal responsibility? Ask the self described federalists. Who knows!
43 posted on 01/13/2008 11:02:43 AM PST by GovernmentIsTheProblem [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies | Report Abuse ] /QUOTE
Nowhere in your post do I see the info that she had challenged you for IE home and work telephone number, E-Mail address.
Chalk that up as ANOTHER lie on your part.
Where does it say that? All it says is that she got phone calls and emails. Just what I would have expected.
From the article:
She said she’d fetch the details, then call him back, thinking the media would need a strict timeline and every tidbit available.
“I’m thinking he’s legitimate,” Call said. “I call Bob back and it’s a fax machine. I called AP and asked for Bob. They told me a reporter would have given a last name.”
Others in the office received calls and e-mails. But Call was the name out front, the town clerk as well as the tax collector. She was labeled the brains behind the plot. She had the biggest target on her back.
The assault picked up after lunch. Paul supporters phoning Call claimed to be from the media. Others just yelled, saying she had committed treason, fraud. One person said she should be shot. She received as many as 40 calls that day.
Proud of yourself?
“I have seen neither of you apologize yet for smearing me.”
So calling you out on your fabrications is now a “smear”?
It’s just emails and phone calls. Where’s the stalking? If she can’t handle hate mail, she’s in the wrong profession.
Ok, except one thing...
From the Navy Times article:
“there’s no proof yet of its origin.”
“it’s” meaning the radio message BTW. And considering that this message is transmitted while the gun boats are running around, and the denials to include the “counter video” by the iranians is suspicious.
This monkey fart or whatever his name is, is he by chance employed by the iranians or is he a free lancer?
The Paultards are still calling for harassment of this poor woman:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=88046
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=87576&page=24
At least here there are one or two people trying to tell the others to leave her alone, some of the meetup forums aren’t so nice.
“If she can’t take the heat, she shouldn’t be in the kitchen.”
So in other words you condone the actions taken by the paul supporters to include the threats?
Death threats are part of the job? Ummm,,,,,no.
No, excusing this kind of behaviour means he’s in the wrong political party.
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