Posted on 10/28/2012 5:59:24 PM PDT by markomalley
Attendees at a Racine, Wisc., Tea Party rally Saturday were met with a parking lots full of nails deliberately placed there early in the morning before the event, which I attended.
This incident adds to a week where a gay Republican campaign worker was brutally beaten and, in a separate incident, a son of a local state senator was hospitalized after defending his Romney sign after two people attempted to remove it from his yard.
Saturday’s Tea Party rally, which featured senate candidate Tommy Thompson (former governor), Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA), and Breitbart’s Rebel Pundit, was held in one of the state’s most contentious areas.
Nancy Milholland, one of the organizers of the rally, said she was shocked to find the nails littering the lots when she arrived early to set up. A man caught the license plates of a van covered with Obama stickers leaving the scene, but police reportedly refused to take the information because there was no evidence of the van actually being connected to the incident.
The Tea Party attendees picked up as many of the nails as they could, although many of their tires had been punctured, and left the pile for all to see:
The rally continued, with 2,500 activists filling the venue, which is located not far from Paul Ryan’s town, Janesville. Tommy Thompson, who is running against one of the most extreme members of the U.S. House for the senate seat, Tammy Baldwin, gave a spirited speech calling on Wisconsinites once again to fight for their state and their country’s freedom.
Thompson himself had recently received the rousing endorsement of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giulinani in a conference call last week. Giuliani spoke of Thompson’s aid to New York in the hours and days immediately following the September 11 attacks. Baldwin, meanwhile, was one of 11 representatives to refrain from voting in favor of a resolution to condemn Ahmadinejad. The choice between the two could not be clearer.
Come and get 'em.
Most likely cheap made in China nails.
It’s pretty rediculous how a homosexual man campaigning for Romney got put in the hospital. I thought the leftists loved those guys. I guess it all doesn’t apply when you aren’t acting like their slave.
Fluken union goons. I hate communists.
Lurking liberal I take it? A Republican that wants to make the libs look bad by tearing up everyone’s tires an blaming it on them. Nah that sounds like a liberal leftist trick not a right winger.
Those are the right type nails tho roofing nails with a very large square head would do even better.
I worked for a government agency once and we found them in our parking lot. The first person in got multiple punctures in all his tires.
Fortunately we were able to remove the rest.
Those are the right type nails tho roofing nails with a very large square head would do even better.
I worked for a government agency once and we found them in our parking lot. The first person in got multiple punctures in all his tires.
Fortunately we were able to remove the rest.
We need one thread to keep all the dirty tricks and voter fraud incidences. I can’t keep up with all of them and we need to.
Yep, those ‘oh so cultured Charlie Rose types’...
Roofing nails. Look for the union label.
Real mature. That is the kind of vile behavior from the party of tolerance.
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