Posted on 09/03/2008 9:46:21 PM PDT by kristinn
One of Barack Obama's elite fundraisers from the anti-American group Code Pink attempted to storm the stage last night during Republican vice presidential nominee Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's acceptance speech at the GOP convention in St. Paul.
Jodie Evans, one of a group of about 500 top financiers who have bundled tens of thousands of dollars for the Obama campaign was seized by the Secret Service after she had made her way to side of the stage and and started to yell at Palin.
The Washington Post reported on the incident:
10:45 p.m. A pair of Code Pink activists just got to the very edge of the stage and were a moment away from apparently running on stage, right by the Kentucky slot on the floor next to a host of McCain's most senior staffers.
Secret Service men grabbed them at last minute and literally dragged them out.
--Paul Kane
Evans has bundled between $50,000 and $100,000 for Obama as well as contributing the maximum $2300 to Obama's presidential primary campaign. She co-hosted Obama's breakout Hollywood fundraiser at the start of his campaign in February 2007.
As a bundler, Evans has been given perks that include regular briefings by top campaign staffers on policy and private meetings with Obama and his vice presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Evans is infamous in conservative and military family circles for publicly endorsing the terrorists in Iraq against the American soldiers who toppled Saddam Hussein and have fought to keep free Iraq from falling to the hands of Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups and nations.
Evans has worked with state sponsors of terrorism including the governments of Castro's Cuba and the the late Saddam Hussein. She has also met with Venezualan dictator Hugo Chavez and has professed her "love" for him.
Evans has led Code Pink's campaign against the Marines in Berkeley where the group has called the Marines "assassins" and Evans herself has compared the Marine recruiting center in Berkeley to a porn shop.
Code Pink issued a press release a short while ago bragging about their attempt to disrupt Palin's speech:
Co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, who were given their tickets to the speech by a Republican delegate who was frustrated with the Republican party and Sarah Palin, caught the attention of Palin with their banners and shouting about 15 minutes into her speech. Palin stopped talking for a moment to turn to look at them.
After another moment, security then grabbed Benjamin and Evans and escorted them one at a time out of the St. Paul Xcel Center, where they were held until the end of the Palin’s speech and told they would be arrested if they tried to reenter. They were told they’d committed an arrestable offense but they were not charged.
“Sarah Palin is not a woman’s choice,” said Jodie Evans, co-founder, moments after being released. “That’s it.”
CODEPINK is a nonpartisan women’s peace group. They vehemently oppose Palin’s pro-war, anti-environment, anti-choice positions. More details to come. For questions, please call Jodie Evans at 310-913-4821.
Obama has rejected several requests from troop support groups that he renounce Evans for her support of the terrorists in Iraq.
Nonpartisan my ass.
I saw the Code Pinker getting hauled off during Palin’s speech.
anything remotely suspicious - call law enforcement.
Have they been outed?
Can you record the conversation ?
I wouldn't do that unless you are very certain of the applicable laws.
Okay, I am sitting here on my home phone right now listening to a TV interview in the background on Evan’s phone.
Apparently she forgot to hang up.
Right now I can hear a TV interview in the background, talking about Palin.
Okay apparently she has arrived whever she was going. I now hear a bunch of people talking.
Overheard soething about Al jezeera.
Apparently now a lot of people talking.
An interview is underway with some guy, I am listenign too the (Evans) some lady being interviewed.
Heard “Were you dressed like this when you went in”
I am taking notes on an interview she is conducting, still on the phone.
I believe the ionterview is being held on the street somewhere, a lot of traffic noises.
I figured that was a Pinko.
I am staying on the line. A lot of background noise, poeple talking. The guy conducting the interview was almost cheering, they were talking about the convention last night.
I have notes, I’ll share later, right now I’m listening.
I mentioned this last night to my wife
The Dem convention was like a freak show, women looking like men and men who were very feminine.
Some of them dressed in t shirts with stupid slogans on the front
Now compared to the Republican convention where there are beautiful women indeed republican women always seem better looking, they were feminine and classy, dressed well and they look after themselves.
The men were in suits and dressed very good, plus they did not look like women or girls
The Code Pinko women aren’t for CHOICE either if they seek to silence the opposition party “by any means necessary”.
Let the PUBLIC choose who they want, damn commies.
bump for later
I’d wager it was a Ron Paul “Republican” who gave these Pinkos the tickets. Ron Paulians have sought at numerous turns to disrupt the state Republican conventions.
They are crossover Democrat voters. There were also crossover Democrats who gave us McCain as the nominee but it is the Democrats who voted in Republican primaries to keep Paul in the race who made the effort to attend the state conventions and may have been seated as delegates.
Infiltration by Reds is common practice for Stalinists.
And this is not to say that EVERYONE who voted for Ron Paul was a Democrat but then again there were Democrats who voted for McCain only because they wanted to keep a more conservative candidate from getting the GOP nomination.
that picture proves my point
republican women are better looking and more classy than the male looking women who dress in scruffy t shirts and pants
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Thanks! Looking forward to your report.
I called the number too, no answer, and the voicemail box “For this number has not been set up”. New phone number perhaps?
For the sake of accuracy - let’s be clear that it wasn’t “the Left” that tried to kill Reagan. It was a psycho who was obsessed with Jodie Foster and thought she’d show him some attention if he was famous like she was. He was first going to try to kill Jimmy Carter, and later moved on to Reagan.
It is, however, the policies of the Left that have allowed the man who tried to kill Reagan to regain some of his freedom.
Those aging 60’s hippie liberal peaceniks are so cute at that age aren’t they?
Somebody needs to tell them to pack up their tie dyed shirts, weed, acid, shrooms, beads and peace signs, get back in their VW bus and leave Woodstock. The party is over.
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