Posted on 05/12/2005 10:29:24 AM PDT by Missouri Voice
Springfield , MO - Former Greene County Democratic Central Committee Chairman Steven Stepp has been sued in Federal Court for conspiracy to deny civil and political rights and interference with the right to equal access at a public political event. On his order, the Springfield Police Department handcuffed and detained Claire McCaskill supporters at a Greene County Democratic Event in 2003.
Stepp is joined in the lawsuit by co-defendants Springfield Police Department and Choice Hotels. Choice Hotels is the parent company of the Clarion Hotel in Springfield as described in the law suit.
According to the Civil Suit, Stepp was an instrumental player in the illegal removal and detention of Democratic activists campaigning for gubernatorial hopeful Claire McCaskill during Jackson Days of 2003.
What?
A Dem county chairman is areested for detaining Democrat demonstrators campaigning for a Republican?
None of this makes sense.
McCaskill is a Democrat also.
Read the entire story at: http://www.missourileadership.com/RecievedReleases/2005/05/050511_StvStpSued.htm
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