Reporter booed, physically shoved at Nevada caucus site

[RandySF]

A Los Angeles Times reporter was forced to leave a southern Nevada caucus location Saturday after some Republican voters accused her of being a spy.

Reporter Ashley Powers said she was thrown out of a community center in suburban Sun City Anthem outside Las Vegas after a Republican volunteer mistakenly told the crowd of voters that members of the media didn't have permission to observe balloting.

Powers said the crowd of elderly voters then booed her. She said she was told security would be called if she didn't leave, so she left the room. When she later tried to re-enter, an elderly man grabbed her arm and pushed her.

Powers said Clark County GOP spokeswoman Bobbie Haseley called her to apologize for the misunderstanding.



http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/feb/04/nv-nevada-caucuses-media-1st-ld-writethru/?hpap

[southernyankeebelle]

1. Don't you love that transparency?

[joshcryer]

2. A spy!

Golly, tinfoil hats anyone?

[The Genealogist]

3. Authoritarian Repukes don't like that silly freedom of the press stuff

That's for the hippie librurals. Expect more incidents like this one as the year wears on. And, the worse the prospects are for the Repukes, the nastier the incidents will be.

[Ecumenist]

4. What are they afraid of? This tells me that there is SERIOUS fear in this bunch!

[justiceischeap]

5. She's lucky she wasn't in Arizona, thus elder's pack heat.

This article really is a snapshot of what is wrong with the Repub party.

[gristy]

6. "mistakenly"??

"a Republican volunteer mistakenly told the crowd of voters..."

I see this too often in news reports where the reporter implies more knowlege of a person's thinking than the facts make available. All that is known here and all that the reporter of this article should have reported is that the republican volunteer incorrectly told the crowd of voters that members of the media didn't have permission to observe balloting.

Same sort of problem when we hear a news report of an election official "accidentally" deleting some number of electronic ballots in a Democratic district. "Oops!".

[Voice for Peace]

7. that's terrifying

being grabbed pushed & booed by a roomful of old people.

[Turbineguy]

8. Hey, wadda ya expect?

It's like leaving the house open and than coming home to find your junk's been stolen.

It's a repub event!