Attempt to place Review-Journal obituary for Hillary Clinton prompts report to Secret Service

[Liberal_in_LA]

Source: Review journal

The Las Vegas Review-Journal on Friday reported a possible threat related to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton after a man tried to place an obituary notice for the former secretary of state.

The man, who identified himself as Don Schubert, was asked to leave the newspaper building's lobby after he filled out a standard obituary form identifying the deceased as Hillary Rodham Clinton, and listing her date of death as Feb. 20, 2016, the date of Saturday's Democratic Party presidential caucuses. Previously he had called the newsroom to complain about the coin flips that determined the outcome of some Iowa caucuses last month.

The man was seen leaving the RJ parking lot in a maroon Toyota Prius bearing several Bernie Sanders campaign stickers. A security guard said he was also wearing a Sanders sticker on his shirt. The official Sanders campaign website lists "Don Schubert's House" in Long Beach, Calif., as the site of a volunteer phone bank.

Newspaper security officials reported Schubert to the Secret Service.

When reached by phone Friday night, Schubert said he had been called by a Secret Service agent. He said he told the agent the obituary attempt was done in "political humor," a predictive reference to Clinton losing Saturday's Nevada caucuses.

Schubert said the agent told him that he could be arrested, but the agency wasn't planning on doing so.

Read more: http://www.reviewjournal.com/politics/caucuses-2016/attempt-place-review-journal-obituary-hillary-clinton-prompts-report-secret

[passiveporcupine]

1. Not funny Schubert.

Gallows humor can be funny, but this was not.

[mercuryblues]

2. who the hell

drives 5 hours for a "practical joke", then 5 hour drive back home?

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. Bernie Sanders supporter

[LeftishBrit]

6. More likely a Trump/Cruz/ tea party supporter

Or just an attention-seeking nutter.

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. He was wearing a sanders sticker

[hopemountain]

12. anyone can wear a bernie sticker and

and anyone can wear a hillary sticker. however, this guy is 1/2 bubble off center. not funny.

[Thor_MN]

13. Anyone can be a 1/2 bubble off center and choose who to associate with.

Clearly not funny.

[rpannier]

3. Not funny

What a twit

[forest444]

4. Sounds like Rove-style bad jacketing.

Take a ´lone nut´, have him feign a threat against yourself, and make sure the media associates him with your opponent.

Well played, Madam Secretary. Who says you can´t teach an old dog new tricks.

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. .

[forest444]

10. Such wit.

You should teach dialectics at NYU.

[geek tragedy]

14. you have quite an imagination, but unfortunately this was an isolated lunatic

who happened to associate himself with the Sanders campaign.

being a populist voice for those angry at the system will unfortunately have the side effect of drawing in some nutjobs

[forest444]

15. But then truth is often stranger than fiction.

I agree: there's no indication as yet this was part of a political ploy. But given Dolores Huerta's very cunning smear against Bernie last night (which, let's not kid ourselves, has quickly become the media narrative and thus worked just as Huerta intended), there's really not much we should put past Hilly anymore.

That said, I hope you're right. Because if it is, in fact, intrigue - and is shown to be such - a lot of Sanders supporters will stay home if Clinton ends up being nominated. And that's the worst thing that could come out of all this.

[JI7]

9. asshole. this is the type of shit Sanders said he wants no part of

In his campaign.

[silvershadow]

11. Was it Sheldon Adelson? Because it sure sounds like political trickery. Non-story.

Let is die a miserable death. Shame unto whomever was behind it. Probably why the Secret Service doesn't even want part of it.

[CommonSenseDemocrat]

16. Arrested for what?

It's not a threat. Perhaps stalking, but that sounds like a stretch.

BTW, I'm not saying this behavior is constitutionally protected, but I just don't know what law would cover this.