Voter Intimidation In NY-23
Haven’t we seen the rhetoric from the right wing fringe getting more and more violent. I hope violence isn’t inevitable but I’ll bet you’re not surprised to hear that Hoffman supporters have been intimidating voters in NY-23:
I just got off the phone with former state Democratic Chairwoman June O’Neill, who informed me the police had been called to at least two polling sites in St. Lawrence County due to overzealous electioneering (O’Neill called it “voter intimidation”) by Doug Hoffman supporters.
“We’ve gotten reports that people are standing there, covered with Hoffman stickers and yelling anti-choice stuff at voters,” said O’Neill, a St. Lawrence native who has been running the party’s GOTV effort for Bill Owens in NY-23.
“Apparently, there’s some woman claiming to be a commissioner,” O’Neill continued. “Commissioner of what, I don’t know. She’s from Texas, I think, and she won’t leave.”
“This is not the way we roll in the North Country.”
O’Neill also said she had received anecdotal reports of problems at polling sites in Gouverneur, which is Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava’s hometown. But she couldn’t immediately confirm this.
I’ll be anxiously awaiting Fox News’s report on this.
Tags: NY-23, Tea Baggers
Those out of state folks should go home and stop embarrassing their candidate. It is not voter intimidation, just voter anoyance.
LOL, your candidate is leading in the polls because of out of state folks. Please keep to your script.
david wont admit his kind are violent cavemen
The FOX news report will be that this was actually an Owens supporter trying to make Hoffman supporters look crazed.
next some disturbed Hoffman campaign volunteer will scrawl an O in her cheek and say it was a large black man who supports Owens. oh right wing, is there any depth to which you wont sink?
Perhaps we should count ourselves lucky that they couldn’t get Hamid Karzai’s political “consultants” here fast enough.
It’s those mammoth yellow Hoffman teeth. He makes them crazy.
they did call themselves terrorists…. or taliban or something. proud anti americans… that is the repuke-lickin’ party to a burning lower case “T”
I think Hoffman should go on Facebook more, I get loads of teeth-whitening ads on Facebook. I wonder if they’re trying to tell me something?
A.P., at least on Congressman (I can’t remember who off the top of my head) compared the teabaggers to the Taliban and he meant it positively!
Can you imagine being an undecided voter coming face to face with these nut cases?
Yeah, I can. I was a clinic escort.
They’re the exact same people, Brooke. In the article it says a lot of them are pro-life activists.
I have always loved the term “pro-life activist” as applied to these people. I was in Buffalo when Operation Rescue tried to move in in 1992. Plain thugs. Hateful people.