Rep. Jerry Weller's (R-IL) thugs push CBS2 reporter

[wndycty]

http://cbs2chicago.com/video/?id=[e-mail]

http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2007/09/21/weller-thuggery/
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CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery plans to press criminal charges after he was shoved and sent down a flight of stairs while questioning a congressman Friday, knocking him into a woman who also fell.

The incident happened at a news conference in Joliet, where Rep. Jerry Weller (R-Ill.) was announcing his intention not to run for reelection. <…>

There’s a large man, who begins shoving reporters around, including yours truly. He shoves me one way, then he goes after another reporter with CLTV.… There’s an opening in the doorway, and I begin moving through that doorway, and he shoves me down the stairs; he shoves me into a railing on the staircase and also into a woman in on the staircase who was traveling with Weller,” Flannery said. <…>

“I realized that I need to ask the police to look into this, and I indicated to them that we get roughed up like this from time to time, but I don’t recall ever being treated his violently; shoved around this violently, to the point where a woman gets knocked down,” Flannery said.

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[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. what sort of other stuff was that slimeball involved in

to require numerous thugs as bodyguards?

These people are something else.

[Peregrine Took]

2. I like Mike Flannery - he is an old school reporter - a tough "Mick" who

doesn't take any crap. GO Mike - give 'em hell!