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.
But it seems Evans was also wearing the namebadge of an alternate delegate who was present for the entire convention. So perhaps they are lying about how they got those tickets.
If they are, (and any respectable LEA would be investigating this), then at a bare minimum this is enough for arrest and some jail time.
No delegate to the Republican Convention passed on tickets to these Code Pink wackos.
Always remember...don’t believe every thing you hear or see in print. You must consider the reporting source.
The claim that a ‘disgruntled” Republican delegate to the convention gave the Code Pink activists tickets is simply hogwash.
This is being claimed by the Code Pink activists because they want those in the Republican base to worry that their party is not truly united and committed to electing the McCain/Palin ticket.
These activists want to cause Republicans to question the unity of their party.
To me, it makes sense that the true reasons that the Code Pink activists came to the convention at all were to:
(1) disrupt Gov. Palin’s speech
(2) later claim that they had been given tickets that gave them entrance to the convention hall by a delegate.
The “message” the Code Pink activists offered to authorities as being what they wanted to say to America
was simply too lame (unbelievable, without merit) to be the reason that they came.
I would like to know how these Code Pink activists ACTUALLY got into the Republican Convention.
“Sarah Palin is not a woman’s choice,” ?
That’s strange...because I’m of the female persuasion and I ADORE HER. She is the very epitome of a Super-Mom. She’s not just a woman’s choice; she’s the choice of every decent-thinking person in this country. I know Democrats who are impressed with her. Don’t tell me she’s a bad choice for VP.
Rush Limbaugh said that MSNBC gave the pass to CodePink
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_090508/content/01125104.guest.html
I haven’t read through this thread but we all saw some of these creeps during his speech. Thanks Meek.
I haven’t read through this thread but we all saw some of these creeps during his speech. Thanks Meek.
Embarrassing America hating trash. Obama people.
I heard they were media passes given them by msnbc.
No surprise here, they even knew where to aim their cameras before the other media.
I thought it was a man, too. Thanks for the company.
Somebody in the media gave her a pass - according to Laura Ingraham - it was NBC.
“Palin stopped talking for a moment to turn to look at them.”
Yeah, it reaalllly knocked the Gov off of her groove, alright. WTG code Pink. Hey, can we get them tickets to all the Gov’s upcoming speeches?
when does Open Season start for Code Pink in this country?
It is needed
“when does Open Season start for Code Pink in this country?
It is needed.”
Exactly! I’m so tired of these femi-nazi, American-hating, communists hags! They ARE the enemy within. They are the ones who gave money to the “insurgents” in Iraq who are shooting at and killing our soldiers!
Every single memeber of Code Pink should be in jail for treason. Everytime I hear/read the name Jodie Evens I get sick to my stomach.
LOL!
Classless doesn't begin to cover it. This crowed makes a rough night at the local truck stop look absolutely genteel. They claim to be women, but I'd want a genetic screening to prove it.
Throw them in jail and you have guaranteed them at the very least a photo-op, and likely interviews on the MSNBCBSABCNN suck-up shows, newspaper column inches, and pics above the fold upstaging Gov. Palin’s speech.
Just chuck ‘em out quietly and let them call a cab.
Palin didn’t bat an eye. I’m getting more impressed with her by the day.
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Palin may have been hoping the woman would make it onto the stage so she could demonstrate her asskicking ability.
That Sir, is an insult to Tonya Harding.
Or a Bowie knife - gutted and skinned in less than one minute.
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