This reporter has been trying to do a hatchet job on us for a while. I knew Ginny Brown-Shirte's campaign could do some pretty low things, but I never thought that they'd go this low.
And the "reporter", Elena Lesley, is an editor at Protest Warrior. A real solid, right-wing hack.
I was there the entire evening, and was with John most of the time, and I can swear that these incidents NEVER happened. It all started last week, at a St. Pete Times candidate forum in Citrus County. About 50 of Ginny's Brown Shirts showed up and drowned John out as he tried to speak. At this forun they were told they'd be ejected if they tried to do it again, and deputies were on hand to enforce it.
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/10/19/Citrus/Congressional_matchup.shtml(snip)
"He Russell tried to grab or push his (Harvey Waite's) head," Grant said. "Lunging would be too strong a word, but 'reaching' wouldn't be strong enough."
Russell flatly denied the claim during an interview Wednesday. He said Waite told him "your nose is getting longer" as he passed by.
"I turned around to comment," Russell said, "but then decided I would just smile and walk away."
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Grant said Russell's supporters bullied Brown-Waite, trying to push her off the sidewalk.
"Political discourse turned into a violent disarray," he said. "Russell has some real composure and temperament issues."
Charlie Keller, the congresswoman's spokesman, couldn't confirm that Brown-Waite had been pushed. But he said that, from what he'd heard, "it was rowdy enough that that could happen."
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I'm fucking seething right now. We're having a press conference in Spring Hill in a couple of hours.
Stay tuned.