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Vandals Hit Obama Campaign Headquarters in Texas
WOAI.com ^ | February 27, 2008 | Lakecia Shockley

Posted on 02/27/2008 4:06:25 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy

A weekend rally for Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama was supposed to leave a hopeful tone in Longview, Texas.

Instead, it left a sour note as vandals spray-painted racial slurs outside the campaign headquarters.

"I don't even know why anyone would do this except ignorance you know, total ignorance, " said installation technician Lonzell Johnson.

It was a sight that "Towles Phone Center" technicians never wanted to see. The phrase "a racist" was spray painted on the hood and the sides of two of their company vans.

"I saw it, It hurt my feelings. You know what I'm saying? Off the top, it hurt my feelings. That they would even, you know what I'm saying, take it to that level, to spray paint my family's businesses," said Johnson.

Not only was the writing on the vans, but spray painted on the wall of the front part of the building.

The building is the home of owner, Eddie Towles phone center and the Obama campaign headquarters, and where superstar actor, Samuel L. Jackson spoke only hours before the vandals hit.

"I am not a racist I take this personally," Towles explained. ""Now, I can not take my vans out with my technicians and service the good people of Longview and take care of businesses that I have done for 20 years."

"This is a person that has not had the kind of care and training that any child is born today should have from the very beginning," said Obama supporter Mae Towles.

Despite the degrading racial remarks, owner, Eddie Towles said it won't stop his support for Obama and his good works he tries to do for the Longview community.

"They can destroy my building; They can destroy my vans. But they'll never be able to destroy my spirit," Eddie Towles said.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: boycriedwolf; dncbrownshirts; electionviolence; hatecrime; obama; racist; racits; racitslol
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Instead, it left a sour note as vandals spray-painted racial slurs outside the campaign headquarters.

Calling someone "a racist" is a racist slur? Or does the word "racits" have some racist connotation that I am not familiar with?

Obviously, it is only a racist slur if the target is a democRat.

1 posted on 02/27/2008 4:06:31 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Racist?

Spot on.

2 posted on 02/27/2008 4:08:50 PM PST by LdSentinal
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To: Bubba_Leroy
I can’t even understand what they guy is saying. He sounds like someone who would misspell racist.
3 posted on 02/27/2008 4:09:47 PM PST by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

If they spray-painted the word “Hussein” on the wall, would that make them racists?


4 posted on 02/27/2008 4:09:51 PM PST by fhayek
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Another “hate crime” hoax.


5 posted on 02/27/2008 4:10:04 PM PST by Loyalist (Social justice isn't; social studies aren't; social work doesn't.)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Is this the place that displayed the Che Obama flag?


6 posted on 02/27/2008 4:10:50 PM PST by bigfootbob
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Look at the spelling on the building.


7 posted on 02/27/2008 4:10:50 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Racits?? If your going to insult and slur someone you should at least appear smart enough to spell it correctly...


8 posted on 02/27/2008 4:12:19 PM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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Look at the spelling on the building.

Gotta be a liberal faker. Conservatives don't spell that bad. LOL!

9 posted on 02/27/2008 4:12:28 PM PST by Tamar1973 (Riding the Korean Wave, one recipe at a time http://www.youtube.com/Tamar1973)
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To: bigfootbob

No, that was in Houston


10 posted on 02/27/2008 4:13:15 PM PST by i_dont_chat (Your choice if you take offense.)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

I’ve got a feeling the Rodent party is going to be treating us to a lot of these types of “incidents” before this election is over. JMHO.


11 posted on 02/27/2008 4:13:26 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (In November, we're going to be able to elect politicians who say they can change the weather. YAY!)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Running low on paint,


12 posted on 02/27/2008 4:13:45 PM PST by silentreignofheroes (I'm Southron,,and I Vote..,..)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Hahahahahah....Public education system at work.


13 posted on 02/27/2008 4:14:13 PM PST by IMissPresidentReagan ("Don't give up your ideals, don't compromise, don't turn to expediency..."Ronald Reagan, 1976)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Where was Grand Kleagle Byrd, and what was he doing when he fell?


14 posted on 02/27/2008 4:14:26 PM PST by SmithL (That's my story & I'm sticking to it!)
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To: Tamar1973
Gotta be a liberal faker.

Not to mention, a product of government "education".

15 posted on 02/27/2008 4:15:00 PM PST by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
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re: Calling someone "a racist" is a racist slur?)))

Interesting, isn't it? I expected the "n" word. Maybe someone has been paying attn to Obama's church's website.

16 posted on 02/27/2008 4:16:10 PM PST by Mamzelle (Time for Conservatives to go Free Agent)
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Or does the word "racits" have some racist connotation that I am not familiar with?

Well, you know what I'm saying, it's a racits thing to be saying, you know what I'm saying, when you paint racits on my, like, business, you know what I'm saying.

17 posted on 02/27/2008 4:17:24 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Not those dreaded VANDALS! Look what they did to Rome! Aaaaaagh ... Run Away!


18 posted on 02/27/2008 4:17:49 PM PST by TexGuy (If it has the slimmest of chances of being considered sarcasm ... IT IS!)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Well, they got away with calling the use of Obama’s full name, demeaning, I guess they thought they’d try calling Obama a racist, demeaning. I guess it all depends on what the meaning of is is.


19 posted on 02/27/2008 4:20:03 PM PST by Eva (Benedict Arnold was a war hero, too.)
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To: LdSentinal

>Racist?
Spot on.<

I’m in total agreement, but didn’t you know only white people are racist?/s


20 posted on 02/27/2008 4:21:15 PM PST by Califreak (Hangin' with Hunter-under the bus "Dread and Circuses")
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