So… four years ago, she was getting escorted out of town hall meetings; now she’s the one ordering the escorting. Sort of a microcosm of the selling-out story arc, isn’t it?
…Shea-Porter can be seen instructing security to remove a man for standing to ask a question without a ticket. Shea-Porter previously held a lottery to determine who could ask questions. She can also be heard taunting the man on his way out by saying, “I do hope the movie theater can be a little quieter for you.”
NowHampshire.com has learned that the gentlemen Shea-Porter removed, Carl Tomanelli from Londonderry, is a retired New York City patrolman.
(Video also here) Presumably Shea-Porter didn’t know that: then again, I’m assuming that because there’s no report of the Congresswoman making pig noises as they removed the retired cop.
Moe Lane
PS: Frank Guinta.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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As a recently retired career pd officer, I'm dismayed.
archer52 Sunday, August 30th at 11:13AM EST (link)So, let’s get this clear, if possible. The Congresswoman set some kind of rule, in a public forum, where if you speak out of turn the police remove you, from the public forum?
I know how those two cops felt. There were times in my career I did things for “political reasons” that I disagreed with as a citizen. It is a tough job, made tougher by corrupt and ignorant politicians who think they are a cut above the rest of us.
One time we were tasked to set up surveillance on the City manager’s car because some kids in the neighborhood committed a couple of car burglaries. He thought it could be politically motivated attacks (paranoia isn’t limited to national politicians) so we sat, and sat and sat, looking at HIS car. Not the rest of the city getting raped by crime, just his car.
It was an expensive way to make sure he got a good night’s sleep. Lord knows he needed it as he oversaw a number of programs, many of which were suspected to be corrupted, over priced and irresponsible.
Thats when you ask...
izoneguy (Diary) Sunday, August 30th at 11:28AM EST (link)Why don’t you park the car in the garage?
Of course you know why they left it sitting outside.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
It's a little late now
Loren Heal (Diary) Sunday, August 30th at 11:47AM EST (link)… but an anonymous call or note to the local media may have been fun. “Hey, come film the cops surveilling the Boss’s car.”
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Join the Concord Project, and follow @lheal, if you dare.
A fundamental skill if you report to a political appointee
Achance (Diary) Sunday, August 30th at 12:20PM EST (link)is to have your fingers pre-programmed with the phone number of a reporter. The when and how of ratting out the boss is a black art but unfortunately a necessary one.
In Vino Veritas
Yes! My Obamabot Father-in-Law is Livid!
farstar99 (Diary) Sunday, August 30th at 4:49PM EST (link)Old Shea Butter had better hang it up now, because she just lost almost every Democrat vote in the formerly free state!