Posted on 08/22/2010 8:32:57 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Congressional Candidate Robbed at Gunpoint in North Miami
Don't politicians normally steal from us? We're doin' it wrong.
By JANIE CAMPBELL Updated 8:15 AM EDT, Sun, Aug 22, 2010
Congressional candidate and advocate Marleine Bastien was robbed at gunpoint while waiting to make a campaign appearance after mass at a church in North Miami on Saturday.
Another car pulled up alongside Bastien's as she waited in her car with her sister outside the Church of the Living God.
A man got out, opened Bastien's door, put a gun to her head, and demanded the pair's belongings. She says he threatened to blow her brains out if she didn't comply.
"At first he looked a little startled when he realized who I was," she said. "I don't know if he found out who I was but he looked, you know, taken a back and then he paused and said, 'give me your purse or I'll blow your f'ing brain out."
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Congressional Candidate Robbed at Gunpoint in North Miami
Bastien and her sister did as told, handing over purses and cell phones. Authorities say the man, whom they suspect of having robbed a woman walking down a sidewalk 30 minutes earlier, then escaped in his own vehicle.
"You have to be so hopeless and desperate," Bastien said. "I mean to come in front of a church, you have to be so hopeless and desperate."
The 51-year-old is running in a Democratic primary next week for an open House seat in a South Florida district. She is one of four Haitian-born candidates. First Published: Aug 22, 2010 7:08 AM EDT
FLORIDA 2010
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
District 17
(D) Marleine Bastien ?
? Refused to answer the NRA-PVF candidate questionnaire, often an indication of indifference, if not outright hostility, to gun owners’ and sportsmen’s rights.
http://www.nrapvf.org/Elections/State.aspx?y=2010&State=FL
Just more B on B crime. Happens every day across America.
Absolutely a D... because it’s an NBC affiliate, and there is no mention of her party affiliation.
Someone did to her what she was probably hoping to do to us.
“You have to be so hopeless and desperate,” Bastien said. “I mean to come in front of a church, you have to be so hopeless and desperate.”
Um, no, you have to be a f’n dirtbag....
Well she was mugged. Does that mean a change?
Karma
Best regards,
What is that on its upper lip?
Note that it sympathized with the perp as he must have been desperate.
Published by Blue Broward
“Marleine Bastien’s campaign for Congress to replace Kendrick Meek representing District 17 first came to my attention when she was being considered for endorsement by the Miami chapter of Progressive Democrats of America. PDA is an activist group that focuses on endorsements, rallies and protests that involve the like-minded: those who focus on progressive causes within the structure of the Democratic Party. Marleine Bastien has been a community organizer as well as an activist, however. Organizing communities means reaching out to and involving groups and individuals in a wide spectrum of knowledge and beliefs and getting them focused on how they can effect improvements in their daily lives through social programs and political participation.”
“She is one of four Haitian-born candidates.”
Great just what we need ,these people do not belong here in the first place.
“At first he looked a little startled when he realized who I was,” she said. “I don’t know if he found out who I was but he looked...”
Seriously lady you think this dirt bag knew who you were and that you were some political candidate in a democratic primary? I’m sure he was up on the latest political going ons in North Miami/sarc. You were target rich and obviously he was correct! The arrogance is disgusting
If guns were outlawed in FL, this couldn’t have happened.
Sounds like she’s describing her pathetic self....
“You have to be so hopeless and desperate,” Bastien said. “I mean to come in front of a church, you have to be so hopeless and desperate.”
No, just taught over many years by the left to disregard the meaning of God and religion.
Looks like a reflection.
This should act as a warning to politicains everywhere. If government doesn't get a clue and sense the anger across the nation and things get really bad, they will likely just as likely end up dead as robbed.
Hopefully this incident will push her to the right.
So she would have been happier if the robbery took place in front of a liquor store?
What an idiot.
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