Posted on 04/16/2010 3:21:59 PM PDT by kristinn
Walter Abbott, doing the reporting that most others in the blogosphere and the mainstream media refuse to do, has broken a story at the Lincoln Parish News Online that the host of the Republican governors fundraiser which Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's chief fundraiser Allee Bautsch and her boyfriend Joe Brown had attended before they were brutally attacked just blocks away says that he and his party fled the fundraiser after twice being targeted by protesters:
In an interview this afternoon, Louisiana GOP Chair Roger Villere, Jr. told Lincoln Parish News Online he and several others were pursued by protesters last Friday night after a political fundraiser, but managed to get into a cab and avoid the mob. “We started to leave out the front door after the event, but the protesters had us blocked – there were six of us in our group – so we went out through the kitchen,” Villere said. Once they got outside, the protesters spotted them and began to pursue them, but they managed to get into a cab and avoid confrontation.
Villere speculates that there were "professional agitators" working the otherwise peaceful protest.
The mainstream media and self-appointed gatekeepers of the conservative blogosphere are trying to bury any notion that the savage attack on Bautsch and her boyfriend was politically motivated when there are many signs pointing to just that, including the words of Bautsch's mother this afternoon on Fox News:
KELLY: One reporter says that he spoke with the Public Information Officer at the New Orleans Police and that Public Information Officer said that insults of a political nature had been hurled at your daughter and her boyfriend during the attack. Do you have any problem with that report?
BURNING: Honestly this is not a Republican or Democrat problem, this is a problem that a young girl and her boyfriend were attacked and the story hasn’t really come out. And I just want to make sure that these guys are found. That’s the important part of this. There is accuracy in the story. I just think that yes when you do the investigation you do look at the people who were in the area at the time, to be able to bring the right people in for questioning. That’s the really important part.
If it was indeed politically motivated, then the nation is moving into dangerous territory as a pattern of violence is being set by the Obama left.
FYI.
Do you think the pres will have a TV statement that says the attackers acted “stupidly”?
Doing the job the Dinosaur Media won’t/can’t do. Right here. Right now.
Of course it’s politically motivated and the entire bloody and unconscionable beatings of the two young people needs to go ‘viral.’
Can this young woman and her boyfriend identify their attackers?
Why, when it's quite obvious it likely was?
Obama isn’t directly involved in this incident or any others, but the trend is disturbing. Do we want a country in which it’s all right to beat up some people because of their political views? That’s the antithesis of what the Bill of Rights was intended for. When are we going to hear some Democrat, in politics or in the news media, condemn violence directed against conservatives?
Prayers for the victims and that their attackers are brought to justice.
obama has been, and always be a community agitator. That is all that he knows how to do.
Thugs always resort to thuggery...
“When you understand the nature of a thing....you know what it’s capable of” Musashi
1968 and the years after were a bad era of political violence. I don’t want to see the nation relive that era.
Yeah, maybe just a typical New Orleans Welcome Party. Too bad Katrina didn't wipe that place right off the map. Maybe next time we can only hope.
Old saying. Before they dare to kill you, they will beat you, and before they dare to beat you, they will damage your property. The key word is property damage. When your opposition dares to publicly damage your property like scratching your car, slash your car tires, throw a rock at your campaign office, then personal assault and murder is not far behind.
Sorry lady, but this is DEFINITELY "a Democrat problem."
Enough with the New Tone already.
Have you heard about the SRLC Welcoming Committee? We are a coalition of New Orleans individuals and groups (including the Committee to Save Charity Hospital) coming together to welcome the Southern Republican Leadership Committee to New Orleans by letting them and the world know what we think of Republican governor Bobby Jindal’s ruthless assaults on Louisiana healthcare and education.
http://www.ironrail.org/blog/labels/RTS.html
SEIU connection:
The SRLC Welcoming Committee is a broad coalition of local educators, healthcare workers, students and other Louisianians, as well as members of the Committee to Reopen Charity Hospital, Save UNO, the Iron Rail Collective, Pax Christi, and many others.
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“Overall, Jindal’s $24.2 billion budget proposal calls for eliminating nearly 3,000 state jobs in the 2010-11 fiscal year that begins July 1.”
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” In Baton Rouge, an estimated 500 civil servants who now work at Earl K. Long doing everything from nursing to administration will be displaced when that facility closes. “
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“Similarly, the civil servants who make up a significant chunk of the 2,300-person workforce at the Interim LSU Public Hospital in New Orleans will no longer be state employees…”
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“…the administration is proposing what officials say are the biggest changes to the state’s mental-health system in generations. The Department of Health and Hospitals is planning to discharge 118 people from state-run psychiatric hospitals… while another 138 institutional beds would be transferred to a private operator…”
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“Rep. Tom McVea, R-St. Francisville, said the downsizing at East Louisiana State Hospital — a state-run psychiatric hospital in his district — will have lasting effects on his rural community as up to 300 state jobs are lost.”
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http://southernpeople.wordpress.com/
Ken Gladney.
Part of the pattern.
Just that they were a group of three to five white men, one was tall, thin, dirty, had a beard and a ponytail.
Which 'gatekeepers'?
There are many fingerprints that need to be examined. See my post about an SEIU connection. I would not be so charitable.
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