Coffin Delays Clinton Fundraiser

[Sequoia]

A protester using a flag-drapped coffin as a prop has put a local fundraising event for Sen. Hillary Clinton way behind schedule. More than 120 people have been kept at bay waiting to enter a $500 to $4,600-per person campaign fundraiser at the home of real estate developer Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis.

Anti-war activist Stephen Pearcy, made famous last year when he hung a human-shaped form dressed in a military uniform from his Sacramento home, brought a coffin to the event as a means of expressing his displeasure with Clinton’s stance on the Iraq war.

“Hillary is not welcome in Sacramento as a candidate,” he said. “If you fund the war, you’re keeping the troops in harm’s way. She can’t have it both ways.”

As the Secret Service arrived on the scene, they apparently asked Pearcy to look inside the coffin. However, Pearcy refused to let them do so, saying they had no probable cause for opening the casket.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/01/1600/

[whistle]

1. This Stephen Pearcy almost sounds like a KKKarl Rove dirty trickster plant

[frylock]

3. that or somebody who's had enough of the milquetoast status quo dlc corporatists

[hughee99]

2. This isn't the same guy who used to sing for RATT is it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Pearcy