Clinton Makes Entrance By Trash Dumpsters (Arkansas after FReep Report)

November 3, 2002 | Arkansas Hog Wild FReepers

[sweetliberty]

We have just returned to Budge's house to do the FReep report because there is a lot of information to report.

In attendance were Budge, Travelgirl, The Battman, parsifal, Don Frivoinai, sweetliberty, and another FReeper who, for reasons you will come to understand shortly, needs to remain anonymous until after the election.

We arrived at Budge's around noon to get everything set up for the maiden FReep of the Arkansas Hog Wild FReepers and the FReepmobile. We got to the site around quarter after 1 and finished up some signs and headed over to the convention center to await the arrival of XXX42 and his horde of Rats. There we were joined by several folks from the Hutchinson campaign and there were quite a few folks who came down from Mount Ida. There ended up being about 30 of us on the outside.

During the wait, we were informed of quite a few "questionable" things going on. For starters, there was one young man who is active with Tim Hutchinson's campaign who was threatened with arrest if he didn't leave the premises. He had done nothing to provoke this action other than they knew who he was. One of the FReepers who is a poll watcher was also threatened with arrest when she tried to go inside the convention center. Another young man who is a Hutchinson aide had a ticket to the event and because he had been seen talkiing to the "opposition" he was not allowed in, being told that it was a private event and they could exclude whoever they wanted to. There was also a group of black folks who were with us so this young man passed his ticket to one of the black guys, who removed all his campaign stuff and went in incognito, laughing saying that they'd never suspect a black guy. Will give you his report later.

Nobody would tell us what door Clinton would be entering by so we took a chance and hung out on one side of the building where they said the car would drive by. True to form, XXX42 was late by nearly an hour. But here is the great part. We were positioned between 2 entrances. One was a major side entrance. The other was a small, fenced-in service entrance by the garbage dumpsters. Well, guess which one he used. Think....which would be most appropriate. Yep, you guessed it. The snake slithered in through the garbage entrance. And he got a look at our signs. It was a classic moment in FReeperdom.

There was a whopping 500 people or so there for the "event". There were few enough people that there was a Jehovah's Witness convention going on in the building at the same time. When Clinton arrived the Jehovah's Witnesses started leaving. At that time we didn't realize that there was another event going on and Travelgirl and The Battman asked one of the cops on duty why everyone was leaving. He responded, "if Clinton entered a room, what would YOU do?" When the Jehovah's Witnesses left, the parking lot started clearing out.

Anyway, we may have to flesh in this post after we all get home because there is a lot to tell, but there is certain information that it is very important to get out there NOW! Back to our "spy". When he came out, he said they were running it like a church service, and the whole focus was on how the evil Republicans are trying to keep them from voting. They were saying that we have all the poll watchers this election to prevent THEM from voting. Now, here is the clencher. They were told that there would be attorneys posted at every precinct to prevent poll watchers from challenging ANY ballots. Now, mind you, one of our poll watchers has already had massive problems with them at the polls during early voting the past couple of weeks and has been advised to retain an attorney. They have had the sherriff remove her from the polls twice when she had done nothing inappropriate...only challenging ballots for improper or no ID. There is an all out campaign by these people to intimidate the poll watchers and then turn around and accuse us of voter intimidation. This is serious and at least one person has some legitimate fear. I can't really elaborate at this point. The reason we wanted to get this up right away is to get other FReepers on the case to get this publicized and contact appropriate media, political and legal sources to alert them that Republican poll watchers in this county are likely to be facing an organized, all-out Rat attack. Any help that FReepers can offer is needed!! Make phone calls, send letters. Whatever you can do. Post your ideas as well.

[Humidston]

Hang in there, Budge! It looks to me like the REPUBLICAN fat lady is fixin' to sing and the Senate MAY just go our way!!!!

[Humidston]

SUPREME CT OF ARKANSAS JUST ORDERED THE POLLS CLOSED!!!

[TheLion]

Now they can bus in the paid Rats to stuff the ballot boxes...makes me sick.

[Freedom2specul8]

Thanks for the ping...

That's terrible! I haven't heard about it yet. Do you know what reason the judge gave for allowing it?

[GOPJ]

It's why we call them RATS:

I suppose most of you have already heard the news... the friggin b>RATS in PUlaski Countgy (Little Rock) just moments before tthe polls were to close, got a BOUGHT JUDGE to extend the closing to 9 p.m. in that heavily democRAT county only! Bastages!

[dixie sass]

May I introduce the NEW face of the South! Georgia has it's first Republican governor in 130 years and Max Clellan is gone. South Carolina has elected Senator Mark Sanford to the Governorship and Lindsey Graham to the Senate. More tomorrow.

I have to relate an incident to y'all but I will wait till tomorrow, I'm just to tired.

Hugs Everyone!

Conservatism Rules!!

[billhilly]

Don't worry Budge. Huckabee can hold down the state, and the rest of the country is in good hands.

[Budge]

SUPREME CT OF ARKANSAS JUST ORDERED THE POLLS CLOSED!!!

I crashed last night and didn't see this until I got on FR. While it didn't help Tim Hutchinson, I think the ASC's rulling did help Gov. Mike Huckabee. Pryor is going to be bad for Arkansas.

As far as the other races here I was most dissapointed with Ross (D) beating Dickey (R) by so much. Ross has done nothing but take credit for Dicky's accomplishments, so far. Maybe that is a good thing, except he votes against anything Republican in the House. The two Republican losses here are a bitter pill to swallow.

All in all, I'm celebrating the overall Republican gains in the House and of course, the re-taking of the Senate.

[Budge]

Britt Hume announced that a few minutes ago. Since Prior is supposedly winning, does this mean they are trying to steal the governorship or is the Senate race not as close as we've been led to believe.

IMHO, yes. But it didn't work. For a better explaination go to the Arkansas Page here. The others were on top of it.

[hellinahandcart]

My state senate candidate lost big-time, and I'm stuck with a damned commie, but the news across the country is so good overall that I am absolutely GIDDY.

It's not perfect, but it's darned close.

WOOHOO!!

[hellinahandcart]

I was just thinking that Georgia must be the happiest state in the Union today. The McKinneys are gone, Cleland is gone, and ya got a Republican governor now too.

Hope y'all have enough champagne down there!

[Mudboy Slim]

We whupped 'em, didn't we Josey?!

FReegards...MUD

[#3Fan]

That's their MO. Commit a malfeasance then claim it was your opponent that committed the malfeasance. Good story though.

[Budge]

It's not perfect, but it's darned close.

I'll drink to that! :) I was just on DU and the whinning there is funny! Here is a partial quote from one: "I hate Daschle...he's a wimpy little prick who sucks at the teat of his corporate masters (sorry for mincing words, but this jerk has no integrity at all in my opinion...). McAuliffe needs to leave NOW...he and Daschle (along with Gephardt) took a party with a direction during the Clinton years, to a party where there are no core beliefs any more (actually, kind of where the Dems were BEFORE Clinton)."

A LOT of this going on there. Funny!

I hope I'm not in trouble for posting this!

[sweetliberty]

Hey Budge. I'm glad you didn't have any problems yesterday. How'd Rainy make out? Did you have to bail her out of jail for biting any Rats? LOL! Any word from our other FReeper poll watcher?? She will hopefully be coming up to the meeting with y'all and sharing her "experiences" in more detail. Got a FReepmail from Mountainfolk this morning. She was a poll watcher too. I should have some more pictures up later today from the FReep. I will ping y'all.

The people of Arkansas may have lost yesterday, but it isn't for lack of dedication and hard work on the part of conservatives here, but American still won....

WE HAVE THE SENATE!!!!!!

[sweetliberty]

"That's their MO. Commit a malfeasance then claim it was your opponent that committed the malfeasance."

You got that right! I've been saying that for a long time.

[sweetliberty]

Oh they were in total meltdown at the DU last night! It was funny! I spent the evening in the Radio FR chatroom. We had a great time.

Fox just announced that the Vermont governor's race has been called for the Republican.

[maxwell]

YEEEEEEEHAAAAAAA!!!

Ahhhh I love the sweet sweet smell of victory in the morning...

The thing is, now the GOP has got to quit diddling around and bust some a$$ in the next two years, or we are gonna lose bigtime in '04...

And a resounding NO to the tax increase proposal here in Hampton VA... Hoorah!

[sweetliberty]

I just want to say how relieved I am that the election is over and how thrilled I am that we have won the senate. Now maybe we can get some good legislation passed and get some quality conservative judges which we so desperately need . I appreciate ALL of you making this a wonderful thread. FReepers in Arkansas worked VERY hard for our conservative candidates, getting out in record numbers and working the polls and campaigning. We are getting bashed left and right by a lot of FReepers and I wish some of you would defend us. This state is so deep in corruption that it might take awhile to pull it out, but in spite of the loss our state suffered last night, I am very encouraged to see Republicans standing up to the rabid, cheating Rats. They didn't like it one bit, but I think ar least they see now that we're not just going to roll over and take it any more. We have a very large contingent of black sheeple Rats and illegal aliens here in addition to the corrupt power brokers, so we are fighting overwhelming odds. Cut us some slack!

While we did suffer a painful loss here last night due to a whole lot of factors, still, America won big and it's about time! Thank ALL of you for making this election a success. I know y'all have worked very hard. FREEPERS ARE THE BEST!!!!!

Anyway, as promised, here are a few pictures from the FReep on Sunday. If I double-pinged anybody, I apologize. This was a long ping list!

Budge and Don Friovinai in the FReepmobile

Signs Are Ready to Go!

Don Froivinai Tries To Get the Message Out

Waiting for the "Arrival"

GREAT JOB ARKANSAS HOG WILD FREEPERS!!!!

[Mudboy Slim]

I reckon we ain't seen the last of Senator Hutchinson...MUD