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Secret Service visits Lufkin woman after 'death threat' allegation from an Obama campaign volunteer
Lufkin Daily News ^ | October 6, 2008 | Jessica Savage

Posted on 10/07/2008 8:04:22 PM PDT by little jeremiah

Secret Service visits Lufkin woman after 'death threat' allegation from an Obama campaign volunteer

By JESSICA SAVAGE The Lufkin Daily News

Monday, October 06, 2008

A Lufkin woman received a surprise visit from the Secret Service last week because of a "death threat" comment she reportedly made about Sen. Barack Obama to a campaign volunteer asking for her support of the presidential candidate.

Two federal agents arrived at Jessica Hughes' home Thursday to ask her if she said, "I will never support Obama and he will wind up dead on a hospital floor."

Jessica Savage/The Lufkin Daily News (ENLARGE) Jessica and Micah Hughes say two Secret Service agents showed up on their doorstep Thursday after a campaign volunteer for Sen. Barack Obama accused her of making a 'death threat' during a phone conversation a day earlier.

Hughes said her words were deliberately twisted by a volunteer who was apparently unhappy Hughes was rude during a phone conversation the two had. The Lufkin mother, a Republican, said she received a call on her cell phone Wednesday from a woman with the Obama Volunteers of Texarkana.

"She asked if I was an Obama supporter, to which I replied, 'No, I don't support him. Your guy is a socialist who voted four times in the state Senate to let little babies die in hospital closets; I think you should find something better to do with your time.' (And then) I hung up."

(Hughes is referring to a "born alive" Illinois bill that did not pass in the Illinois state Senate in 2005 and had previously been opposed by Obama because he said it undermined Roe v. Wade, according to FactCheck.org, a non-partisan organization. A federal version of the bill, which Obama said he would have supported, passed by unanimous consent and was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2002.)

Obama Campaign Communications for Texas director Josh Taylor declined to comment Monday, refusing to answer any questions and referring the matter to the Secret Service, which he said is conducting an investigation. A message left with a Secret Service agent in Houston was not immediately returned.

Hughes said she was surprised to see two Secret Service agents at her door, and upset to learn that the conversation she had with the volunteer apparently had not been recorded.

"I find it hard to believe that (campaign volunteers) don't tape these calls. They call people unsolicited and they aren't monitoring the calls or recording them? I think that is absolutely ridiculous," she said.

"I mean, how often must this happen — that someone is rude to a volunteer that they don't want to talk to?"

Hughes said she wants to file a countercomplaint against the volunteer.

"She has made a charge that will follow me the rest of my life," she said.

"I find that repugnant and violating — that some person got her undies in a bundle because she didn't like what I had to say."


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: abuseofpower; antichrist; deaththreats; dncbrownshirts; electionviolence; enemyofthestate; falsecharge; jessicahughes; lufkin; obama; obamabrownshirts; obamanation; secretpolice; secretservice; stalinisttactics; usss
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To: little jeremiah

can’t have any disagreement with “Obama Osama Gonna tax yo mama”


61 posted on 10/08/2008 11:32:15 AM PDT by tutstar (Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or off.)
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To: realcleanguy

Two words: Lock and Load


62 posted on 10/08/2008 11:33:31 AM PDT by SueRae
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD; holdonnow; suspects

This needs some serious publicity, friends!


63 posted on 10/08/2008 11:36:34 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: MeekOneGOP
Hi Meek. Thanks for this ping. I went to 411.com and did a reverse phone no. on this and got the following:

Obama Volunteers Of Texas
Job title: unavailable
Company: Obama Volunteers Of Texas

323 W 7 St
Texarkana, TX 75501
(903) 798-6020

64 posted on 10/08/2008 11:37:06 AM PDT by Texagirl4W (It's the ten commandments, not the ten suggestions !!!!!)
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To: little jeremiah

Jessica Savage??


65 posted on 10/08/2008 11:37:38 AM PDT by RDTF (BO smells and eventually people do what's necessary to avoid it)
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To: Lazamataz

By JESSICA SAVAGE The Lufkin Daily News

The namesake of the CBS anchorwoman who died in a car accident in Bucks County, PA.


66 posted on 10/08/2008 11:38:17 AM PDT by Canedawg (If the law supposes that, said Mr. Bumble, the law is a ass, a idiot.)
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To: realcleanguy
903-798-6020

323 W. 7th St Texarkana, TX 75501

From obama website.

67 posted on 10/08/2008 11:38:20 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (I Love The Smell Of Schmidt Storm in the Morning...and Afternoon....and at Night!!!!!)
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To: Liberty Valance

Link to her blog.
http://ywc.blogtownhall.com/


68 posted on 10/08/2008 11:38:37 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: little jeremiah

Wow!

Just called the number, a man answered and I told him I saw the article in the Lufkin paper about the complaint they had against a woman who was upset over their solicitation.

He just said that they “could not comment about the complaint.”

I said “I bet.”

Click.


69 posted on 10/08/2008 11:40:53 AM PDT by Mrs.Z ("...you're a Democrat. You're expected to complain and offer no solutions." Denny Crane)
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To: little jeremiah

I’ve had a couple of contacts with Secret Service agents, and they were 100% professional, not at all like the agents were to this woman. I, too, would be questioning whether they were really Secret Service agents.


70 posted on 10/08/2008 11:41:01 AM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: quillizmightier
From Obama Website

Host: Anna Scott

Contact Phone: 903-798-6020

Location: Obama for America Office, Texarkana (Texarkana, TX) 323 W. 7th St

Texarkana, TX 75501

Office manager or point of contact listed above: Might be a place to start?

71 posted on 10/08/2008 11:42:45 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (I Love The Smell Of Schmidt Storm in the Morning...and Afternoon....and at Night!!!!!)
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To: little jeremiah
"I will never support Obama and he will wind up dead on a hospital floor." My husband laughed and told them "No, she called him a socialist but she never said a word about him dying." I gave them my actual quote. The woman asked insolently "Oh? Well why would she make that up?"

My guess is that the Obama volunteer is too dim-witted to catch anything more than every fifth word when someone talks too quickly.

72 posted on 10/08/2008 11:43:50 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: little jeremiah
This is what government under Obama would be like! An apparatchik makes a false complaint and the law lands on you.

This kind of thing is no accident. It is like the numerous acts of fraud by ACORN that are initiated at the low level but well known at the high level, though they deny it. Not only are Obamanites crooked they are Chicago machine crooked.

73 posted on 10/08/2008 11:44:00 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Rome2000
The best thing to do is get caller ID and not answer any calls from the HUSSEIN campaign.

I take a different approach. If I get a call from the "opposition" I keep them talking as long as possible. Love wasting their time.

74 posted on 10/08/2008 11:44:30 AM PDT by Churchillspirit
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To: Anti-Bubba182

This is going to be a wild month...these people are prepared to do ANYTHING to win. They thought they had it in the bag since Hillery and now they see the race tightening up.


75 posted on 10/08/2008 11:51:46 AM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: little jeremiah

bump


76 posted on 10/08/2008 11:56:44 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Amazing how Obama, Rangel, Biden and Dodd all got killer mortgage rates and below cost property.)
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To: ladyvet
Not only that, they are prepared to do anything after they win.

I expect to see a return of the fairness doctrine and attempts at internet control, not to mention gun grabbing and more taxes.

77 posted on 10/08/2008 11:58:29 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: little jeremiah

Bump for later.


78 posted on 10/08/2008 11:58:59 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Illic Est Haud Deus)
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To: Biggirl

Load & Lock....


79 posted on 10/08/2008 12:08:24 PM PDT by geo40xyz (BE PREPARED: "We got more thanks from the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders" than from SENATOR OBAMA")
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

You guys rock! Does she have a MYOBAMA page?


80 posted on 10/08/2008 12:13:42 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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