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'Kerry's Criminals': Democrats on Trial


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'Kerry's Criminals': Democrats on Trial

 

 

Five Democratic activists accused of slashing the tires of vans rented by Republicans on Election Day 2004 are now charging that "professional political operatives" with the Democratic Party actually damaged the tires and then set up the activists to take the blame.

 

Attorney Sheldon Shellow, who is representing accused tire-slasher Sowande Omokunde – son of Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) – said the operatives' loathing of Republicans and President Bush motivated the slashings.

 

The GOP rented more than 100 vehicles for a get-out-the-vote campaign in Milwaukee on Nov. 2, 2004. The vehicles were parked in a lot adjacent to a Bush campaign office, and party workers planned to drive poll watchers to polling places by 7 a.m. and transport any voters who didn't have a ride.

 

The defendants, paid workers for Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign, are accused of slashing 40 tires on 25 vehicles, causing more than $5,000 in damage, at about 3:30 a.m. on the morning of the election.

 

Omokunde, Michael Pratt – the son of former Milwaukee acting mayor Marvin Pratt – Justin Howell, Lewis Caldwell and Lavelle Mohammad are charged with criminal damage to property, a felony that carries a maximum sentence of 3 1/2 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

 

Democratic operatives Opel Simmons, Levar Stoney and Leshaunda "Joy" Williams are expected to testify against the five defendants, saying they returned to Democratic headquarters "excited" about something just after the tires were found slashed by a security guard at the GOP office, CourtTV.com reports.

 

But the defendants' lawyers said in opening statements Tuesday that a group of out-of-town Democratic operatives led by Simmons were the true culprits.

 

Pratt's lawyer Rodney Cubbie said the security guard took down the license plate of a van rented by Simmons, and that the guard - the only witness at the crime scene - could not positively identify any of the defendants.

 

This could lead to only one conclusion, according to Cubbie: The out-of-town party officials framed the "locals," as they called the five campaign workers.

 

"The evidence in this case will be much stronger against the defendant's accusers than against the defendants themselves," Cubbie said.

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Guest CNOrtega

Misguided, borderline stupid kids letting their enthusiasm get the best of them. But I know what you're trying to prove, that Democrats are law-breaking thugs, and I'm positive most of your conservative buddies will say how disgraceful it is for someone to not approve of Bush and the GOP in general 100%. On behalf of the us Leftist Socialists, I humbly apologize for ever disagreeing with you and Emperor Bush in any way.

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Guest CNOrtega

Did you miss the part where I called the kids stupid? No, I don't approve of it. But let me ask you this, if it were the other way around, would you have even mentioned it?

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Originally posted by DeuceChunker03

I saw it two days ago on MSNBC...

I regularly watch MSNBC and haven't heard a word about it. FOXNews and MSNBC are my two primary sources of TV news coverage. I also searched the MSNBC wesite and came up with nothing. I think you are either hallucinating or it was such a minor story it wasn't worth much airtime . . . which is exactly the point! :whistle:
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Originally posted by KirtFalcon

I regularly watch MSNBC and haven't heard a word about it. FOXNews and MSNBC are my two primary sources of TV news coverage. I also searched the MSNBC wesite and came up with nothing. I think you are either hallucinating or it was such a minor story it wasn't worth much airtime . . . which is exactly the point! :whistle:

 

No way... FOXNews is your regular source of news? :whome:

 

I don't know if it was a big story or not... I was flipping channels and saw it. I usually don't watch news on TV. Too much junk, and too little news and fair debate. I don't like watching Carville because nobody else gets a word in, and I don't like watching most Conservative news because it's pretty much the same.

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Originally posted by 50pinch

Fox News is much better than the liberal alternatives like CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, and MSNBC. At least Fox will provide both sides.

 

You can obviously tell by the story choice selections that Fox is conservative of course (a lot of pro-GOP slush), but when they debate topics they will have a pro/con discussion. They will have people talk from both sides, at least most of the time.

 

CNN tends to just let the anchor interview one person about a topic (of course there are exceptions), but whenever I watch they (the anchors) seem to be talking too much or injecting their own opinion into the questions (WOLF BLITZER:thumbdown: )

 

As far as coverage on so-called 'breaking news', I usually watch CNN because they tend for some reason to get information a little quicker and most of the time have very good coverage of the events...and their website is MUCH better than Fox. Fox will show, however, things like CNN doesn't...like live car/police chases. Those are very interesting to me.

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