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Shocking Audio: Rep. Fred Clark's Disturbing Comments about Female Constituent
Republican Party of Wisconsin ^ | Jun 13 | katie.mccallum

Posted on 06/13/2011 1:41:42 PM PDT by Hunton Peck

Rep. Fred Clark (D-Baraboo), running in a recall election against Senator Luther Olsen, was caught on tape last week saying he would like to "smack around" a woman in his district.

The comment was recorded on the home answering machine of Sue and John Stapelman of Baraboo. Clark phoned the family while making campaign calls, and had a short, curt conversation with Sue Stapelman. Stapelman then hung up the phone, but her answering machine was still rolling, and caught Clark saying, "I feel like calling her back and smacking her around."

John Hogan, director of the Committee to Elect a Republican Senate, said "This disturbing and inappropriate comment gives us an unfortunate glimpse of what Representative Clark is like when he thinks no one is listening. Domestic violence is a devastating problem in our state , and abuse is on the rise. To be able to so freely threaten violence against a woman, even in jest, shows a tremendous lack of character.”

“Coupled with his record of killing jobs and increasing spending, the mounting evidence of Fred Clark’s recklessness and lack of common sense will be flatly rejected by voters at the polls this summer.”

Transcription of call from Fred Clark:

[Answering machine picks up the call, then Sue Stapelman picks up phone]
SS: “Yes”
FC: “Hi, this, uh, Ms. Stapelton?"
SS: “Yes it is.”
FC: “Hi, this is Representative Fred Clark.”
SS: “Ok.”
FC: “Yes, I just want to give you and John a call again tonight. You may know I’m running against Luther Olsen here in the recall election in the 14th Senate District.”
SS: “Yeah, isn’t that a crime.” [hangs up]
[Answering machine still recording]
FC: “Ok. I feel like calling her back and smacking her around.”


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: goonion; unionthug; wisconsinrecall; wisconsinshowdown
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Audio link: http://www.wisgop.org/sites/default/files/clark.mp3
1 posted on 06/13/2011 1:41:50 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
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To: Hunton Peck

Fred is dead!


2 posted on 06/13/2011 1:44:15 PM PDT by DarthVader (That which supports Barack Hussein Obama must be sterilized and there are NO exceptions!)
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To: Hunton Peck
h/t to Vicki McKenna
3 posted on 06/13/2011 1:44:23 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: Hunton Peck

Tagline


4 posted on 06/13/2011 1:44:52 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Celebrate 'Civility'")
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To: Hunton Peck
I think she could probably take this dork...



5 posted on 06/13/2011 1:46:31 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FreeRepublic.com. Now, More Than Ever.)
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To: Hunton Peck
I'd hit SMACK that.

6 posted on 06/13/2011 1:48:16 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I'm a Birther - And a Deather)
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To: DarthVader

He is all that we expect from democrats.


7 posted on 06/13/2011 1:49:57 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Hunton Peck

I don’t see what the big deal is. He’s a Dem so clearly an idiot regardless but having said that, he could have meant verbally “smack her around”. I’ve used that phrase before myself.


8 posted on 06/13/2011 1:54:29 PM PDT by conservativebabe ("The gonads on our team happen to be wearing skirts."- Rush)
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To: Hunton Peck

Real men don’t hit women.


9 posted on 06/13/2011 1:55:44 PM PDT by 92nina
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To: Hunton Peck

Wow, he’s real classy. The consummate gentleman.


10 posted on 06/13/2011 1:57:16 PM PDT by Hoffer Rand (There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
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To: Hunton Peck
Honestly, we all need to just back off and give these dems plenty of rope. They'll hang themselves in no time.
11 posted on 06/13/2011 1:57:52 PM PDT by liberalh8ter
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To: 92nina

Her hubby may confront the goofball and tell him to try to slap him around then proceed to beat Mr. Clark into a pulp.


12 posted on 06/13/2011 2:04:08 PM PDT by DarthVader (That which supports Barack Hussein Obama must be sterilized and there are NO exceptions!)
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To: conservativebabe

Right. He meant he was going to call her back and physically hit her over the phone.

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13 posted on 06/13/2011 2:05:21 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: 92nina
Real men don’t hit women.

Real men club them over the head and drag them back to the cave where they do what they want, and then make them cook dinner for them.

14 posted on 06/13/2011 2:12:23 PM PDT by Do Be (The heart is smarter than the head.)
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To: Hunton Peck

Assembly Democrats, from left, state Rep. Kelda Helen Roys, D-Madison, state Rep. Gary Hebl, D-Sun Prairie, background, and state Rep. Fred Clark, D-Baraboo, show the first signs of outrage as their Republican counterparts cut off debate and voted on the budget repair bill state Assembly at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., early Friday morning, Feb. 25, 2011.

15 posted on 06/13/2011 2:12:40 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
paste eating and last-picked-in-dodge ball Freddy:


16 posted on 06/13/2011 2:15:46 PM PDT by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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To: conservativebabe
I thought that Clark's reaction to being hung up on was stupid enough to be funny, in part because it makes no sense. I mean, if he calls her back and tries to issue a verbal smackdown, she's just gonna hang up on him again.

If there's anything to be gleaned from the call, it's that the union-owned Dems are so immersed in a thuggish way of thinking that that kind of language just spews out of them with no provocation and no meaning. They can't help it. Kind of the way leftist bloggers drop the "F" bomb all over their screeds -- more of a verbal tic than an actual expression of anything.

17 posted on 06/13/2011 2:18:55 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: Do Be

Make a woman treated like that cook for you? No wonder the Neanderthals died out.


18 posted on 06/13/2011 3:20:27 PM PDT by 92nina
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To: 92nina

They don’t?

Let a woman try to bite the artery in your wrist and see if you don’t nail her ass to the floor.


19 posted on 06/13/2011 3:27:39 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: 92nina

Correct and that aint a real man.


20 posted on 06/13/2011 3:34:28 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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