Posted on 03/26/2007 12:34:48 PM PDT by Uncledave
Edited on 03/26/2007 1:31:28 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
SENATE STAFFER BUSTED FOR CARRYING WEBB'S LOADED GUN: Phillip Thompson, executive assistant to Senator James Webb (D-VA ), has been arrested by Capitol Hill Police on Monday for 'inadvertently' holding the senator's loaded gun, according to a person close to the investigation. A Senate staffer reports that Thompson was arrested for carrying the gun in a bag through security at the Russell Senate Office building while the Senator was parking his car. Thompson was booked for carrying a pistol without a license (CPWL) and for possessing unregistered ammunition.
Statement by Jessica Smith, Webb Communications Director:
"To our knowledge, this incident was an oversight by the Senator's aide. Phillip Thompson is a former Marine, a long-term friend and trusted employee of the Senator. We are still awaiting facts." Developing...
This guy is a total idiot. Thank you Virginia for electing this nutball.
Phooey!
I wonder if Webb will be a stand-up guy and accept full responsibility for this like the Corps taught him?
Any spin yet from the Webb camp?
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when we practice to deceive.
Did web have a cc in DC? I'm hearing no. That web had a permit in VA, but not in DC. Unregistered gun then...I think
'course, i could almost hear the phones ringin' to remedy that right away...
"I wonder if Webb will be a stand-up guy and accept full responsibility for this like the Corps taught him?"
Webb already threw him under the bus...."...was a mistake by the aide....yada yada yada"
You've never read anything else about Senator Thinskin, have you?
Watch Webb blame it on the staffer! This will be hilarious. Webb is a time-bomb waiting to explode.
His staffer only violated two laws: carrying a gun into DC, and carrying a loaded gun into the Capitol. Of course, Webb will claim it was the staffer's unfortunate mistake, even though these are his possessions. Wonder where this report appears on the Washington Post...
A time-bomb with a gun.
Check this out.
check the link at #194
Was the staffer holding Webb's loaded gun in the senate cloakroom?
I bet he skates.
And yet, if you or I venture into DC with a pistol in the trunk and get pulled over, they will put us under the jail.
Well now, there you go, you made me spew cinnamon roll all over my monitor at work
for shame...for shame...8-)
An extensive ad campaign which was waged on the front page and above the fold in the Washington Pos.
The campaign valued in the tens, possibly hundreds of thousands, was FREE of charge to Webb.
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