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.
IIRC, she got close enough to 'paint' Condi...
they expect and depend on restrint from security details, my bet is that its all part of the tactical playbook at best, and staging for a later full blown attack at worst...
sad thing is that this commie bitch is a KNOWN CODE PINKOand was allowed in the room and able to manuvere to the very edge of the stage...dont take a genius to figure out that is TOO CLOSE to allow whack jobs to get to a candadite...
I would like to see a public statement to the effect that ANY rushing of the stage, [in either party] will be dealt with very swiftly and violently...
might just go a loooong way to stopping a trajic ending one day...
Uh-HUH. We saw a Pinko being dragged off, but didn’t recognize her.
“They should’ve let her on stage.
I’m sure Sarahcuda was carrying, and would’ve defended herself quite well.”
That would have been funny, and would have shown just how desperate obamination’s sheeple are.
Miss Sarah would have decked the two morons, and returned to her speech as if nothing happened.
CNN had a shot of some female being escorted out last night. She walked like she was drunk or had maybe fainted but after reading this I’m thinking it was the code pinko.
It’s fine and honorable that she sold the governor’s jet but I would like to see her flown privately now. She may be tough but this isn’t Alaska anymore.
I thouhgt I heard this, I noticed that it didn't bother Palin one tiny bit.
“CODEPINK is a nonpartisan women’s peace group. They vehemently oppose Palin’s pro-war, anti-environment, anti-choice positions. More details to come.” Ahh, demonspawn bitterly clinging to her demonic rites of abortion slaughter and barrenenss of soul. Got it. Was wondering what the freak was when she was dragged out last night.
“...a nonpartisan women’s peace group.”
Well, they openly supported our enemies in Iraq.
So I take it that the delegate who gave them the tickets has not been outed?
It would be great if you came up with the identification of the delegate who gave them the tickets.
Yes, she needs protection now.
They already yanked it.
Ron Paul is an imbecile, and so are all his supporters....including the ones here at FR.
Not necessarily.
Possibly just someone too lazy to set up their voicemail on their cellphone, or too stupid to figure out how.
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