Posted on 09/03/2008 9:46:21 PM PDT by 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.
From the brief glance I got, I thought it was a man with arm upraised in a defiant gesture as he, she, it was hustled out the door at the end of the aisle.
The scumbag who gave his tickets to the perps should be found and kicked out of the convention. Surely there's an Alternate Delegate in the state's delegation who can take his/her place.
These pinko anarchists know all the criminal tricks. These two knew exactly how to work their ways to the stage and stand next to it without detection. Sarah could have been stabbed or worse in the wink of an eye from some leftist loon who could welcome capture or suicide-by-cops.
Sarah barely blinked an eye. But she knows the risks of attack or assassination as much as we. She carried on till the end when her children and husband were standing on the stage in a vulnerable grouping. Did she still have apprehension? Probably, but you'd never know it.
She's our own Iron Lady.
Leni
I will do a search to find them. Thank you. Do you remember if any of those threads indicated they were ‘officially’ with the campaign?
Urban legend or not; they had it on their DailyKos site. I forwarded it on. That is just as dangerous as a physically threatening statement in my mind.
That is what I remembered reading. bump
..I hope they are charged with a felony
Thanks for the ping.
I did notice it. They did it twice as I recall. I remember thinking similar thoughts as yourself. Steele, Mitt, Rudy, and Lingle, but Palin was the only one they showed the teleprompter.
Here we go!
Hot Air: Jodie Evans: Code Pink founder, Obama bundler, Osama apologist
Politico reports that Jodie Evans, the founder of Code Pink, has joined Team Obama as a bundler...
Exerpt:
“Officially” It was real money, read the top here, she gets access to Obama for being one of the top 500 $$$ raisers.
I think this is a lie - more likely they found lost credentials
Were I with the RNC or any of the campaign staff, the first thing I would do would be to find out who gave them the tickets.
I would not stop until I found out and when I did, I make sure that they person or persons responsible for that would be forever banished from any event held by the RNC or any candidate forever.
For questions, please call Jodie Evans at 310-913-4821.
I love it! Watching her being escorted out was a breath of fresh air....Nice try Jodie....but didn’t work. They are really getting desperate!!!
Co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, who were given their tickets to the speech by a Republican delegate who was frustrated with the Republican party and Sarah Palin, caught the attention of Palin with their banners and shouting about 15 minutes into her speech. Palin stopped talking for a moment to turn to look at them.”
I also thought I heard Sarah say “yeah, we hear you” or something to that effect. I wasn’t certain exactly what she said and I didn’t know if it was aimed at a detractor. At any rate she appear unflappable.
They should have let her storm the stage simply so Sarah could clothesline her carcass to the stage floor. And then calmly return to her speech.
>>>“Officially” It was real money, read the top here, she gets access to Obama for being one of the top 500 $$$ raisers.
Yes, it is real money with real access. I do see the information about the bundling.
But these people work with real lawyers, tax specialists and certified IRS representatives. Normally, they create technical affiliations to hide blatant associations.
But, if they are blatantly/officially affiliated; then we can forward the information to the FEC and then they have no excuse on taking action.
Ask Amitychild, she got the ball rolling on the Mid East donations.
Remember, she has five kids! ;-)
Code Pink issued a press release
The words press release are highlighted. If you click on this link it will take you to the code pink press release. At the bottom of the page is a youtube video.
That video just showed them protesting outside.
Who was it?
Bubba part 2... Clinton's 3rd term.
Dirty money everywhere. Rampant scandal.
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