GOP staffer who called Sasha and Malia Obama 'classless' was arrested twice, age 17 & 19

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/Elizabeth-Lauten-arrest-786543

Lauten, pictured above, was arrested in December 2000 for misdemeanor larceny, according to court records. Lauten, then 17, was collared for stealing from a Belk department store in her North Carolina hometown.

Because Lauten was a first-time offender, her case was handled via the District Court’s deferred prosecution program, which resulted in the charge’s eventual dismissal after the future scold stayed out of trouble for a prescribed period.

Since Lauten was just another teenager caught shoplifting at the mall, it appears unlikely that she was publicly pilloried for her lack of class, nor were her parents criticized as poor role models.


--- per other sources, she was arrested again at age 19

[SomethingFishy]

1. LOL.. Republican "Class"...

While I would hope that she learned a lesson from this, I expect she will be back in public soon, going even further down the rabbit hole (probably right over to the Daily Caller) while screaming that those "horrible libtards forced me from my job".

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. She threw stones from her glass house... guess she thought those arrests would never come to light

[SomethingFishy]

7. Yet another Republican who doesn't understand the 21st Century.

[Cha]

54. Or maybe she didn't even think about them.. so intent on her hateful screed.. conveniently down the

ol Reagan rabbit hole.

[IdaBriggs]

2. And nobody shot her, either.

Talk about white privilege!

[reflection]

3. Well clearly if she shoplifted

she should have been gunned down in the street like the hulking demon she was.

[greatlaurel]

4. Do you have a link to her second arrest?

Thanks.

Glass houses.....

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. per DailyMail. Dailymail is hated on DU so I didn't post it. here it is

GOP staffer who called Sasha and Malia Obama 'classless' was arrested for shoplifting as a teen

Elizabeth Lauten resigned from her position working for a Republican today after criticizing the first daughters in an inflammatory Facebook post
Lauten called Sasha, 13, and Malia Obama, 16, 'classless' for their clothes and attitude at the annual White House turkey pardoning
Court records indicate Lauten, 31, was arrested for shoplifting from a department store at the age of 17
Was also arrested for speeding and running a red light in Virginia at 19


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2856410/GOP-staffer-called-Sasha-Malia-Obama-classless-arrested-shoplifting-teen.html#ixzz3KgH4WoQQ

[greatlaurel]

9. Thanks!

This woman is getting the kind of scrutiny she deserves. Unfortunately, Limbaugh, Joe Scar, and Beck etc... are given free passes on the garbage they spew. Why are these men allowed to state complete falsehoods unchallenged?

[Cha]

55. Really.. if you're going to write a hateful screed like that aimed at the teenagers in our WH.. we

want to know who this person is.

[Frustratedlady]

10. This gets better and better as the day goes on...

I hope the little darlin' has time on her hands to peruse social networking to see how much support she has compared to those awful, rude and unfashionable Obama teens. It might just open her eyes to the real world. Hey, Lauten? Looks like you've had your 15 minutes of fame and then some.

Leave those sweet girls alone...that includes their parents!

[bluedigger]

17. I'll give her a pass on traffic tickets.

But why she wasn't hunted down and shot dead in the street for the animal she was after shoplifting, I'll never understand.

[Cali_Democrat]

26. Actually, after shoplifting you're actually a "demon"

according to Darren Wilson.

[hatrack]

49. Or at least "thug"

[Anansi1171]

8. Thanks for posting. Heard an AM hate radio host defending...

...her criticism cause teen with short skirt- as if thats a crime.

Nothing will change the frame for them. The most amazing thing about the great white right is their projection and hypocrisy.

Glass houses be damned.

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. Dailymail commenters, very rightwing hatefilled anti-Obama bunch, were united against her

[Cha]

56. Yeah, EL was beyond the pale.

[MyOwnPeace]

12. Maybe.......

her "hours of prayer" mentioned in the "apology" included a request that her own background not be discovered....

[Frustratedlady]

13. Bingo! That's why it took hours! Pass the popcorn and wait for the next blob to hit the fan.

Darn, gotta run to the store. I just put my last packet of buttered corn in the micro. BBL

[cloudbase]

46. Well, God answers all prayers.

Most of the time, the answer is "no."

[msanthrope]

14. What a thug!!! nt

[Gidney N Cloyd]

15. She 'knocked over' the Belk Department store?!!

(Sorry. Knocked over is my phrase of the day since joe scar characterized Michael Brown's shoplifting that way this morning.)

[greatlaurel]

19. Good one!

[eridani]

16. Old enough to know better apparently also equals --

-- too old to really "get' how social media work.

[JustAnotherGen]

18. This is awesome

[jalan48]

20. Smear

I wonder how much she was paid and by whom for her little "Palin-like" smear job. Maybe she hopes to move up the Koch Brother's pole.

[tanyev]

21. Whoops! Another victim of instant Karma.

[samsingh]

22. typical repug criminal

face it, she's offended because the President and his family are not white.

[Chakab]

23. I'm confused. I thought that the penalty for shoplifting in the US was summary execution.

[meow2u3]

24. Republican "class" = Do as I say, not as I do

[SunSeeker]

25. Oh good God, how did this woman ever get the nerve to criticize any teenager?

[Mariana]

30. Republican stupidity.

She reminds me of Joe the "Plumber", who thought it was a good idea to stand in front of TV cameras and spin a totally bullshit story to try to make Candidate Obama look bad. It just didn't occur to him that his lies would be found out, and it didn't occur to this dingbat that her past indiscretions would come to light.

[ecstatic]

43. I wonder if her parents raised the possibility during the talk she referred to

Too little, too late of course.

[Mariana]

47. She did indirectly insult her own parents, didn't she?

I think we can guess what she was saying during her many hours of prayer. "Please, Lord, I beg you, don't let anyone find out about the stuff I did when I was a teenager!"

[Strelnikov_]

48. "After many hours of prayer"

What, God can't afford at least DSL . . . still using dial-up?

[Man from Pickens]

27. Larceny...

what an excellent qualification for a job in politics, probably went to the head of the interview line on that alone!

[Shrike47]

28. I guess her parents were not good role models for Little Miss Scofflaw

[LovingA2andMI]

29. Talking About the Kettle Being Black....as in the color of the Kettle...

Talk about falling right off of the tree, talk about needing to quickly take a long walk off a short pier, talking about we should not cast the first stone.....Will the Right Wing Radicals start "Sticky Fingers" Elizabeth Lauten a Go Fund Me Account, since it appears they stand up quickly to support murderers (Darren Wilson) and Thefts (Elizabeth Lauten)?

#JUSTSAYING

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[calimary]

31. And her full name is Elizabeth Glass-Houses Lauten.

At least she can speak from experience about teenage girl miscreants, 'eh?

[OldRedneck]

32. Not surprised

Check out her website -- read her Twitter feed on the website. Most of her tweets are about her shopping, shopping, shopping.

Typical materialistic spoiled Republican brat.

I've been trying to track down background info on her. She's from Jacksonville, NC -- home of USMC base Camp LeJeune -- and the only Lauten I found in the town is a dentist.

[left-of-center2012]

33. Yes, but ......

She's a white Republican and rules are different when applied to children of African-American Democrats.

[SoCalDem]

34. Oh dear...

Why am I suddenly thinking of glass houses and stones?

[City Lights]

35. Hypocrisy, thy name is GOPee. nt

[rocktivity]

36. Well, that only proves that she knows whereof she speaks!

rocktivity

[bobclark86]

37. What, exactly, does this have to do...

with the price of tea in China?

Who cares? Sounds like you're just trying to discredit her by bringing up something obscenely minor from 15 years ago. In fact, you sound like the guys who criticize the president for smoking pot in high school. Teens do dumb shit. Period.

You don't have to try and make her look foolish by bringing up stupid crap from her childhood. She did that just fine all on her own.

[ecstatic]

44. Maybe the next gop idiot will

think twice before running his/her mouth. This type of unbelievable (hate filled) hypocrisy should be exposed at every opportunity.

[bobclark86]

57. I'll remember that...

the next time a marijuana smoker here bashes Rush Limbaugh for his oxy problem.

Hope you're proud of yourself. Now you got me defending that ... well, insert your choice of profane statement here. Where's my brain bleach so I don't remember that ever again.

[Kalidurga]

51. She was critical of non criminal behavior

while she has the heart of a larcenist.

[Takket]

38. Commupance is a beautiful thing

Not too often a rethug is actually held responsible for the hate they spew, so let's enjoy this one.

[SummerSnow]

39. I knew she was a thug.

*this is a no sarcasm comment*

[treestar]

40. How did they get the record from age 17

arrest.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

41. Wow. Real classy!

[malaise]

42. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahahaha

I'm betting that's the reason for the resignation

[ecstatic]

45. I'm betting it was a call from the first lady.

The gop can spew whatever crap they choose, but the girls are off limits.

[Odin2005]

50. It doesn't count when you are White!

[47of74]

52. Lauten should've reviewed Matthew 7 before opening her mouth

You know, the parts about not mounting one's high horse and sitting in judgment of others;

"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye." (Matthew 7:1-5)

If you're going to act like Lauten did your past had goddamn well better be so clean that the Blessed Virgin Mary could eat off of it.

[Cha]

53. I couldn't care less about this.. if she weren't such a hypocrite with her vile ugly screed calling

out Sasha and Malia.. and the President and First Lady.

Mahalo Liberal in LA