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Eddie Adams, Florida Republican Candidate, Gets Burned
Associated Content ^ | 10-24-08 | Ranger

Posted on 10/24/2008 4:21:54 AM PDT by JOLLYDODGER

Florida Congressional candidate Eddie Adams Jr. (R) was admitted to Tampa General Hospital Sunday suffering from severe burns on the hands and arms. He will be undergoing additional skin grafts Tuesday.

A vandal tied a mattress to the underside of Mr. Adams pick-up truck. Friction with the road, and contact with the catalytic converter combined to ignite the bedding.

As he drove down Busch Boulevard in Tampa, Florida, onlookers began to wave and shout

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TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: congress; elections; electionviolence; florida; hatecrime; ratcrime; thugocracy
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Eddie Adams, Jr. is a Black Conservative running against a white liberal woman. It has taken a week to break this story, the local Tampa Tribune, (a vaguely conservative newspaper)has studiously ignored it, as have the local conservative talk radio hosts.
1 posted on 10/24/2008 4:21:54 AM PDT by JOLLYDODGER
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To: JOLLYDODGER

WOW! I live in the area and this is the first I heard of it.


2 posted on 10/24/2008 4:25:27 AM PDT by Damifino (The true measure of a man is found in what he would do if he knew no one would ever find out.)
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To: JOLLYDODGER

ONZ! (A mattress under his truck? Wouldn’t a person notice that?)


3 posted on 10/24/2008 4:27:18 AM PDT by Tax-chick (After 5:00 p.m., slip brains through slot in door.)
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To: Damifino

http://www.adamsforcongress.org


4 posted on 10/24/2008 4:27:18 AM PDT by JOLLYDODGER (John McCain - Independence from foreign oil.)
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To: JOLLYDODGER

WHAT? I haven’t heard this anywhere!


5 posted on 10/24/2008 4:27:19 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (Only a coalition of Marxists and Islamists can destroy the United States. ~ Carlos the Jackal)
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To: JOLLYDODGER

Bambi’s thugs............?


6 posted on 10/24/2008 4:27:52 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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As he drove down Busch Boulevard in Tampa, Florida, onlookers began to wave and shout

I wonder when Obama's people will just start putting tire necklaces on their opponents?

7 posted on 10/24/2008 4:28:11 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: JOLLYDODGER

That’s terrible! Why wasn’t ANY of this in the news here in Florida???


8 posted on 10/24/2008 4:28:23 AM PDT by Mr. Jazzy (USMC- Guarding freedom around the world since 1775)
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Think about it, how many times do you look under your truck? This is what happened.


9 posted on 10/24/2008 4:28:32 AM PDT by JOLLYDODGER (John McCain - Independence from foreign oil.)
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More “get in their faces” tacticts from the Hussein thugs?


10 posted on 10/24/2008 4:28:43 AM PDT by itsthejourney (1 of every 10 people you pass in the mall is here illegally)
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I see Adams with some regularity at local GOP events. He is a kind and dedicated Republican. My prayers are with him.
At this point in the campaign, office workers with the Hillsborough County Sheriff have tallied 90 reports of vandalism against cars with Republican campaign bumper stickers, and 7 such incidents against cars with Democrat bumper stickers. Other incidents include the systematic and widespread vandalism or theft of Republican campaign signs.

Eddie is running against Democrat Kathy Castor.


11 posted on 10/24/2008 4:29:05 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Palin won more votes in her Wasilla Mayoral race than Biden got in his 2008 Pres run)
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Oh, I believe it’s what happened. It’s just bizarre. I don’t think our truck could move with a mattress (!) under it; the poor man must have a very big truck!


12 posted on 10/24/2008 4:29:36 AM PDT by Tax-chick (After 5:00 p.m., slip brains through slot in door.)
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bet that mattress had an accellerant soaked into it...
13 posted on 10/24/2008 4:30:19 AM PDT by mo
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The information has been in the newsroom of WFLA newsradio 970 since Monday, and so has Newsradio 820, and they have refused to report it. Interestingly, the blog Associated content, censored the news that this is a black man, very well respected by Republicans, who got this treatment.


14 posted on 10/24/2008 4:32:25 AM PDT by JOLLYDODGER (John McCain - Independence from foreign oil.)
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Wow.


15 posted on 10/24/2008 4:32:43 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Paying taxes for bank bailouts is apparently the patriotic thing to do. [/sarc])
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I think this goes beyond vandalism. The man may have been killed. The guy, already burnt, tried to pull out the mattress and save his truck. Now that’s a Conservative........... I’d vote for him. :)


16 posted on 10/24/2008 4:32:58 AM PDT by WildcatClan (The world is full of fatheads; so I invented Diet Shampoo)
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To: NautiNurse

of course O will speak out against such despicable acts — NOT.


17 posted on 10/24/2008 4:33:15 AM PDT by avital2
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To: JOLLYDODGER

I’m calling Mark Larsen right now.


18 posted on 10/24/2008 4:33:20 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (Only a coalition of Marxists and Islamists can destroy the United States. ~ Carlos the Jackal)
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DISGUSTING!

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friends@foxnes.com

elrushbo@eibnet.com

The riots have already started!


19 posted on 10/24/2008 4:33:24 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: AmericaUnited

20 posted on 10/24/2008 4:34:39 AM PDT by Hoodat (Obama's only connection to the descendants of American Slaves is that his muslim ancestors sold them)
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