TOP OBAMA CAMPAIGN FINANCIER ATTEMPTED TO STORM STAGE DURING SARAH PALIN SPEECH

Thursday, September 4, 2008 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

One of Barack Obama's elite fundraisers from the anti-American group Code Pink attempted to storm the stage last night during Republican vice presidential nominee Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's acceptance speech at the GOP convention in St. Paul.

Jodie Evans, one of a group of about 500 top financiers who have bundled tens of thousands of dollars for the Obama campaign was seized by the Secret Service after she had made her way to side of the stage and and started to yell at Palin.

The Washington Post reported on the incident:

10:45 p.m. A pair of Code Pink activists just got to the very edge of the stage and were a moment away from apparently running on stage, right by the Kentucky slot on the floor next to a host of McCain's most senior staffers.

Secret Service men grabbed them at last minute and literally dragged them out.
--Paul Kane

Evans has bundled between $50,000 and $100,000 for Obama as well as contributing the maximum $2300 to Obama's presidential primary campaign. She co-hosted Obama's breakout Hollywood fundraiser at the start of his campaign in February 2007.

As a bundler, Evans has been given perks that include regular briefings by top campaign staffers on policy and private meetings with Obama and his vice presidential candidate Joe Biden.

Evans is infamous in conservative and military family circles for publicly endorsing the terrorists in Iraq against the American soldiers who toppled Saddam Hussein and have fought to keep free Iraq from falling to the hands of Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups and nations.

Evans has worked with state sponsors of terrorism including the governments of Castro's Cuba and the the late Saddam Hussein. She has also met with Venezualan dictator Hugo Chavez and has professed her "love" for him.

Evans has led Code Pink's campaign against the Marines in Berkeley where the group has called the Marines "assassins" and Evans herself has compared the Marine recruiting center in Berkeley to a porn shop.

Code Pink issued a press release a short while ago bragging about their attempt to disrupt Palin's speech:

Co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, who were given their tickets to the speech by a Republican delegate who was frustrated with the Republican party and Sarah Palin, caught the attention of Palin with their banners and shouting about 15 minutes into her speech. Palin stopped talking for a moment to turn to look at them.

After another moment, security then grabbed Benjamin and Evans and escorted them one at a time out of the St. Paul Xcel Center, where they were held until the end of the Palin’s speech and told they would be arrested if they tried to reenter. They were told they’d committed an arrestable offense but they were not charged.

“Sarah Palin is not a woman’s choice,” said Jodie Evans, co-founder, moments after being released. “That’s it.”

CODEPINK is a nonpartisan women’s peace group. They vehemently oppose Palin’s pro-war, anti-environment, anti-choice positions. More details to come. For questions, please call Jodie Evans at 310-913-4821.

Obama has rejected several requests from troop support groups that he renounce Evans for her support of the terrorists in Iraq.

[piasa]

2003 [before December 8] : (JODIE EVANS LEADS CODE PINK ACTIVISTS TO BAGHDAD, IRAQ : ) Earlier this year Jodie Evans led a delegation of fifteen Code Pink women to Baghdad, where they met with Iraqi women for the purpose of “creat[ing] the understanding that the people of Iraq are no different than you and me.” “We understand,” said Evans, “the love of a mother in Iraq for her children, and the driving desire of that child for life . . . We who cherish children will not consent to their murder. Nor do we consent to the murder of their mothers, grandmothers, fathers, grandfathers, or to the deaths of our own sons and daughters in a war for oil.”
She said nothing about the fathers, grandfathers, mothers and children murdered, tortured or raped by Saddam Hussein’s regime, nor its 12-year refusal to abide by the terms of the UN’s many resolutions. While in Baghdad, Evans and her companions repeatedly and publicly painted America as an unprovoked aggressor, and Iraqis as noble defenders of their invaded homeland. “Children continue to die of hunger,” they reported, “and electricity is unreliable. However, Iraqis continue to resist the occupation in their own way.” ------ "Jodie Evans: Activist in Pink," By John Perazzo, Frontpagemagazine.com, December 8, 2003

[Just Another Lurker]

Watch the video on the code pink link and you will probably see who gave them the tickets.

[Critical Bill]

How the HELL did code pink get into the convention which I assume is a NSSE.

They made up some story about a disgruntled Rep Delegate giving them tickets...yeah right.
They should have been recognized the moment they entered the hall ( esp Benjamin....rat face she is).

[ForGod'sSake]

Some context:

Crazy Cindy, Jodie Evans, Hugo Chavez, Medea Benjamin yukking it up...

[LowOiL]

Great photo post... thanks

[adm5]

LOL

[Snickering Hound]

Perhaps they heard a rumor there was cake hidden in the podium?

[smith288]

WhOoT! Love that


(click the image to get one)
Or see the whole collection

[ConservativeMan55]

Can you link me?

I wasn’t sure which one

[Bob J]

While some strike at the heart of the dims, you continue to strike at the cankels.

[Critical Bill]

LOL... that’s a well know fake.photoshop...but a goodie.

[slapshot]

I would prefer a thorough CPD wood shampoo and rinse with a tune up

[LostInBayport]

Why are they not in jail?

This is inexcusable. If these malodorous, femininity-free Code Pinko slugs are not faced with any consequences, they will repeat and possibly increase their insane behavior.

[arkady_renko]

I saw the perp being escorted out of the convention. I honestly thought it was a man in drag.

I thought it was a person in a pink...ummm...ummmm...vagina costume. (Sorry to be crude, it sure looked like that...)

Oh I'm gonna hate myself in the morning for this post...

[dr_who]

Obama’s campaign is financed by nuts.

[OKIEDOC]

Thanks for the post, I got so absorbed with reading the comments on Hillary Clinton's Forum.

I quit at about 750 when it was evident that not one disagreed with Palin.

WOW!

[Doctor Raoul]

How about a link to your earlier thread that had all the links to Jodie’s radio interview where she said Osama Bin Laden had a valid reasons to attack the USA on 9/11.

[Brucifer]

It looks as if she’s trying to take off. “Second star to the right... straight on until morning.”

[Raider Sam]

Is it ignorance of the world around them or brazen disregard for the Constitution that lets people like this think they can rush the stage. I would say it is dis-respect, especially of the 1st Amendment.

However, it might just be ignorance. These people know nothing of military or security procedures and thought, so they may have believed that no one would be at the stairs waiting for troublemaker. To think of that beforehand would be impossible for a reactionary.

[freekitty]

Bundlers my you know what. More like money launderers.