Florida Dems Place Newspaper Ad Calling for Rumsfeld 'Hit' (Update)

Drudge Report ^ | April 13, 2004 | Matt Drudge

[threat matrix]

'We should put this S.O.B. up against a wall..and pull the trigger'

developing story..

[Future Useless Eater]

>>Steinke and McCall will plead guilty to any charges brought by the Pinellas Co. Attorney and/or the Federal District Attorney.

slight problem there... Central Florida's judges
(and prosecutors) are in disrepute for outrageous liberal
judicial activism that lets them craft WHATEVER will most
fit their agenda-de-jour. Meantime, the prosecutors only
push liberal causes.

[examples: the Schiavo murder-in-progress, selective
prosecution of Rush Limbaugh, the flagpole homeowner
penalized even though he 'won', the 2000 'chad' count,
the democrat caught with a punchcard machine but never
prosecuted, etc...]

[JulieRNR21]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/13/dem.ad/index.html

Democratic club's ad suggests shooting Rumsfeld



Kerry campaign, county Democratic Party condemn ad

From Rich Phillips
CNN



MIAMI, Florida -- An ad placed in a Florida community newspaper by a city Democratic club attacks President Bush and U.S. policy in Iraq, and threatens Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

The ad says of Rumsfeld, "We should put this S.O.B. up against a wall and say, 'This is one of our bad days,' and pull the trigger."

The ad was placed by the St. Petersburg Democratic Club in last week's issue of The Gabber, a weekly community newspaper based in Gulfport, next to St. Petersburg on Florida's Gulf Coast.

No one from the club could be reached for comment, but the ad was condemned by other Democrats, including the presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry.

"We are calling the Pinellas County Democratic Party chair about this ad and demand that it be retracted," Kerry campaign spokesman Stephanie Cutter told CNN. "John Kerry does not condone this type of advertising and believes that it is wrong."

Pinellas County Democratic Party Chairman Kevin Jensen told CNN that he, too, was outraged by the ad, and said party officials "don't condone this type of stupidity."

The club, listed on the Pinellas County Democratic Party's Web site as one of its "officially chartered" clubs, does not speak for the county party, he said.

The ad refers to a quote made by the secretary of defense, who said recently that in Iraq, 'We have our good days and our bad days."

It asks, "How many have to be killed before the Bush Bunch is satisfied? How many burial services of our Iraq dead has Bush attended?" It calls for the United States to leave Iraq and asks people to send "any amount of money you can afford" to "John Kerry for President."

Ken Reichart, co-owner of the The Gabber, told CNN that an apology from the newspaper as well as a retraction by the Democratic club would be carried in the next issue of the paper. He said he expected a retraction to be delivered shortly.

"It should not have been printed," Reichart said. "We printed it in error. It's one of those things that would normally not appear in this paper based on our history of 36 years."

He said the advertisement came in just before deadline.

"I obviously can't change what happened," he said. "I believe it was unethical. ... He threatened somebody literally."

The newspaper goes to print Wednesday afternoons and hits the stands on Thursday. It was founded in 1968 and has a circulation of 9,700.

CNN's Candy Crowley and Kim Segal contributed to this report.

[Brytani]

Yes the FBI was contact over and over and over again. To the point a posting was put on here asking people to stop calling them.

Freepers have been all over this story since it broke.

[Victoria Delsoul]

"It should not have been printed," Reichart said. "We printed it in error. It's one of those things that would normally not appear in this paper based on our history of 36 years."

Sureeeeee! I believe you.

Thanks for the post, Julie. These people are amazing. They do something outrageous, and it's never their fault.

[Brytani]

Have you noticed, during the updated news reports on this story how the editor of the Gabber keeps changing his statement on how the ad got into the paper in the first place?

Me thinks he was visited and/or called by someone in the Secret Service/FBI/Law Enforcement letting him know he'd better have a good explination for it.

He's changing his story faster then kerry get's botox injections!!!

[sport]

Good! I copied it and e-mailed it to the Department of Justice.

[sport]

Me too!

[JulieRNR21]

When I spoke to him early this morning....he indicated he knew exactly what the Ad said and had no problem printing it.

We even discussed 'free speech' and I told him he had a 'responsibility' to not print threats that could incite a mentally ill person like Hinckley who shot at President Reagan because of a 'movie star'.

The other aspect of this whole Dem debacle is that the prez of the Club admitted that the Club is in close contact with the Kerry Campaign......that is now illegal under the McCain Finegold Law...I expect the FL GOP legal eagles will be investigating that violation!

The St. Pete Dems have shown the real face of the Dem Party to the entire country through this hate filled Ad & blatant admission of violating the Campaign Finance Law!

We must keep this story out there & get it talked about all over the media!

Freepers please keep sending emails about it to the media especially FOX & CNN.

[Victoria Delsoul]

The St. Pete Dems have shown the real face of the Dem Party to the entire country through this hate filled Ad & blatant admission of violating the Campaign Finance Law!

Absolutely. I'm sending emails, too.

[GeronL]

Not hard to believe anymore

[dixie sass]

I heard about tonight from other FReepers at Paltalk. Ugh, these people stop at nothing! Thanks for the ping.

[GeronL]

what idiots. Of course, Democrats can get away with it.

[Nix 2]

From The Warroom:
They showed this ad to a Florida Democrat focus group. The reaction, he said, was volcanic AGAINST the ad. The Group moderator said they were so angry he feared they were going to overturn the tables. He was also quoted as saying that any fence sitters who might have been in the group were now lost and would not likely come back...voting for Bush instead.
Mo ads!

[GeronL]

sometime before November?

[Eastbound]

The last time I saw a desecration of our flag was at Waco. . . by another democrat.

[TLI]

bump for future bumping when this will be even more effective

[BigSkyFreeper]

The Dims pulled the trigger and shot themselves in the foot, for the umpteenth time.

Like my Mom is used to saying, "No brain, no pain".

[TigersEye]

Are Ken and Edna in jail yet?

[Bigg Red]

what do you call a liberal sister?

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A disgrace to the family....