Posted on 10/25/2009 2:45:40 PM PDT by lovesdogs
Republican activist Ed Napolitano has apologized to U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, and resigned from all his Republican Party positions, over the actions of a Wasserman Schultz political opponent at an event sponsored by the club Napolitano used to lead.
Napolitano’s resignation and apology were prompted by what happened at the Southeast Republican Club on Oct. 6. Instead of the usual community center meeting room, the Napolitano-led club met at a gun range.
Among the approximately 40 people at the event was Robert Lowry, a Republican seeking his party’s nomination to run against Wasserman Schultz next year.
Lowry shot at a target bearing the letters "DWS" next to the silhouette head.
Lowry said he didn't know who wrote Wasserman Schultz' initials on his target, but said he knew they were there before he started shooting. He initially described it as a "joke," but after answering several questions he said it "was a mistake" to use a target labeled "DWS."
After the event was reported on in the Oct. 9 Sun Sentinel, it was picked up, reported, and commented on by national news outlets, generated a fury in the blogosphere, and drew critical reactions from Democrats. Napolitano said he wasn’t aware of the target with Wasserman Schultz’ initials on the night of the event.
But in a letter to the congresswoman dated Oct. 12, he apologized.
“I would like to sincerely apologize to you and your family for an incident that occurred at a function we sponsored recently…. Let me say that this action was wrong and should never have happened. It was stupid and irresponsible to do such a thing.”
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Should the club have had the meeting at a shooting range and invited a liberal newspaper...probably not. Do dems do far worse things (mmm, mmm, mmm) and assume that they will blow over instead of eating their own? Hell yeah!
Republicans simply adopt the outrage of the left over stupid things that will run out of steam and end the career of a decent man who could elevate conservatives in an otherwise hostile environment (Broward Co FL).
We need to ramp it up on liberals and force them into the same same no win situations and at the same time allow our guys a little room on errors to see if they blow over or not. Allowing the left to determine our fate and dominate the conversation can no longer be an option. A favorite teacher of mine once told me that no matter what you did, someone else with do something equally bad or worse within a week...wait it out.
I live about 30 feet outside Wasserman-Schultz’s district and have lived here for 2 years - utterly mystified as to why she is in office. She does a reasonable jib of reading the DNC scripts - but is not particularly quick on her feet.
Geez, if this gets eveyone’s panties in a knot, they better not attend the range where my pals and I shoot. LOL!!
I’m glad he’s quitting, there is no room for PC defeatists in the coming elections in 2010 and 2012.
If he would quit over this he would cave to any liberal compromise.
That is the most amazing thing. Republicans run when no one is chasing them.
He doesn’t know who did it, yet he’d rather resign than get to the bottom of it or maybe just apologize and move on.
How can we possibly hold anything when we can’t even govern over small stuff.
Liberals feed on outrage - if nothing’s handy, they have to find something out of the blue to be outraged over.
Ed needs to grow a pair.
He seems way too in touch with his inner unicorn.
Anyway (and seriously now) sorry this happened.
She is a leftist Kool Aid drinker.
Starting with getting rid of the hyphenated names and actually making a decision as to who they really are.
If I’m correct, Wasserman-Schultz is a highly partisan dem who has made more than her share of nasty personal attacks on republicans/conservatives. I doubt that she would have apologized had she been the perpetrator here - but who knows. In any case, this wasn’t a great move, and inviting the liberal press to a gun club probably wasn’t a great move either. But I’m tired of republicans apologizing and beating themselves up for breathing when the left would never think of doing such a thing. Look at Wasserman’s colleague Grayson. He won’t apologize for any of the vile things he says about republicans and his boss Nancy won’t ask him to. Why the double standard? We have bigger and more important things to worry about right now. I hope this can be the last time we read a story like this.
They are politicians then, not conservatives.
The above said, the incident is no real threat
What a bunch of pansies. No wonder Republicans cannot make any headway in Broward, Palm Beach or Monroe...and VERY LITTLE headway in any non-Cuban section of Miami-Dade.
Ed needn’t resign. Find some other reason for DWS to be on the target: “Dumb White Socialists”, for instance.
And for the Republicans to be hanging out with anyone from the SHAM-SENTINEL...utter stupidity.
That’s what I’m saying.
My point and said so much better than I did.
This was a stupid little thing. I was not there that night. I have no idea who did it, nor do I care. No one died or went to the hospital....end of story.
In short, she's a professional baby-killer in her off-duty time, and anti-freedom when she's in Congress.
Her initials on a target is not a problem ~ no real Republican would be bothered.
Fur Shur I wouldn't allow young children near her,
I wonder who put the initials on it?
Why would he resign? Republicans need to stop apologizing and instead say, having a bit of fun, so what?
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