Jodi Evans
How would you know Jodi, you're not a woman.
Posted on 09/03/2008 9:46:21 PM PDT by kristinn
One of Barack Obama's elite fundraisers from the anti-American group Code Pink attempted to storm the stage last night during Republican vice presidential nominee Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's acceptance speech at the GOP convention in St. Paul.
Jodie Evans, one of a group of about 500 top financiers who have bundled tens of thousands of dollars for the Obama campaign was seized by the Secret Service after she had made her way to side of the stage and and started to yell at Palin.
The Washington Post reported on the incident:
10:45 p.m. A pair of Code Pink activists just got to the very edge of the stage and were a moment away from apparently running on stage, right by the Kentucky slot on the floor next to a host of McCain's most senior staffers.
Secret Service men grabbed them at last minute and literally dragged them out.
--Paul Kane
Evans has bundled between $50,000 and $100,000 for Obama as well as contributing the maximum $2300 to Obama's presidential primary campaign. She co-hosted Obama's breakout Hollywood fundraiser at the start of his campaign in February 2007.
As a bundler, Evans has been given perks that include regular briefings by top campaign staffers on policy and private meetings with Obama and his vice presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Evans is infamous in conservative and military family circles for publicly endorsing the terrorists in Iraq against the American soldiers who toppled Saddam Hussein and have fought to keep free Iraq from falling to the hands of Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups and nations.
Evans has worked with state sponsors of terrorism including the governments of Castro's Cuba and the the late Saddam Hussein. She has also met with Venezualan dictator Hugo Chavez and has professed her "love" for him.
Evans has led Code Pink's campaign against the Marines in Berkeley where the group has called the Marines "assassins" and Evans herself has compared the Marine recruiting center in Berkeley to a porn shop.
Code Pink issued a press release a short while ago bragging about their attempt to disrupt Palin's speech:
Co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, who were given their tickets to the speech by a Republican delegate who was frustrated with the Republican party and Sarah Palin, caught the attention of Palin with their banners and shouting about 15 minutes into her speech. Palin stopped talking for a moment to turn to look at them.
After another moment, security then grabbed Benjamin and Evans and escorted them one at a time out of the St. Paul Xcel Center, where they were held until the end of the Palin’s speech and told they would be arrested if they tried to reenter. They were told they’d committed an arrestable offense but they were not charged.
“Sarah Palin is not a woman’s choice,” said Jodie Evans, co-founder, moments after being released. “That’s it.”
CODEPINK is a nonpartisan women’s peace group. They vehemently oppose Palin’s pro-war, anti-environment, anti-choice positions. More details to come. For questions, please call Jodie Evans at 310-913-4821.
Obama has rejected several requests from troop support groups that he renounce Evans for her support of the terrorists in Iraq.
ping!
How would Mr Evans know?
They should’ve let her on stage.
I’m sure Sarahcuda was carrying, and would’ve defended herself quite well.
It’s too bad they didn’t make it to the stage. That little stunt would’ve guaranteed a McCain/Palin win in November.
“Sarah Palin is not a woman’s choice,” said Jodie Evans, co-founder, moments after being released. “That’s it.”
I believe I can say she means “this woman’s” in that statement.
I have all the proof I need right here: http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/forumdisplay.php?f=84
Code Pink are women? Who knew! Sorry but she is this woman’s choice!
Medea Benjamin is hardly “anti-war.” She’s written at least two books praising Castro’s violent rise to power in Cuba.
She’s on Amazon.com.
Bingo.
Ask yourself this question: who exudes real class, Sarah Palin and her family, or the minions of Code Pink?
What is the old adage, folks?
If you start taking flak, YOU MUST BE OVER THE TARGET.
The Dems are losing it. They cannot stand to be out of Executive Power for 12 years, maybe 16. I predict they will get even more troublesome and violent.
How would you know Jodi, you're not a woman.
The Secret Service better be on Sarah like white on rice.
I put nothing past Obamaniacs.
NONPARTISAN!?
Whatta victory for Code Pink!!!
That just makes this night better.
“For questions, please call Jodie Evans at 310-913-4821.”
That’s a handy number to have - we may have a few questions for her!!
Peggy Noonan?
I do, too. I think that was a serious act which merits serious disciplinary measures. Palin's speech tonight was critical to the convention, and for anyone to purposely allow infiltrators in to try to throw her off balance was too disloyal to dismiss.
Sarah saw it but as is her style is so good at public speaking I doubt an atomic bomb would have flustered. She did have to refer some backup note when the prompter failed at the Venezuela oil mention.
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