Secret Service visits Lufkin woman after 'death threat' allegation from an Obama campaign volunteer

Lufkin Daily News ^ | October 6, 2008 | Jessica Savage

[little jeremiah]

Secret Service visits Lufkin woman after 'death threat' allegation from an Obama campaign volunteer

By JESSICA SAVAGE The Lufkin Daily News

Monday, October 06, 2008

A Lufkin woman received a surprise visit from the Secret Service last week because of a "death threat" comment she reportedly made about Sen. Barack Obama to a campaign volunteer asking for her support of the presidential candidate.

Two federal agents arrived at Jessica Hughes' home Thursday to ask her if she said, "I will never support Obama and he will wind up dead on a hospital floor."

Jessica Savage/The Lufkin Daily News (ENLARGE) Jessica and Micah Hughes say two Secret Service agents showed up on their doorstep Thursday after a campaign volunteer for Sen. Barack Obama accused her of making a 'death threat' during a phone conversation a day earlier.

Hughes said her words were deliberately twisted by a volunteer who was apparently unhappy Hughes was rude during a phone conversation the two had. The Lufkin mother, a Republican, said she received a call on her cell phone Wednesday from a woman with the Obama Volunteers of Texarkana.

"She asked if I was an Obama supporter, to which I replied, 'No, I don't support him. Your guy is a socialist who voted four times in the state Senate to let little babies die in hospital closets; I think you should find something better to do with your time.' (And then) I hung up."

(Hughes is referring to a "born alive" Illinois bill that did not pass in the Illinois state Senate in 2005 and had previously been opposed by Obama because he said it undermined Roe v. Wade, according to FactCheck.org, a non-partisan organization. A federal version of the bill, which Obama said he would have supported, passed by unanimous consent and was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2002.)

Obama Campaign Communications for Texas director Josh Taylor declined to comment Monday, refusing to answer any questions and referring the matter to the Secret Service, which he said is conducting an investigation. A message left with a Secret Service agent in Houston was not immediately returned.

Hughes said she was surprised to see two Secret Service agents at her door, and upset to learn that the conversation she had with the volunteer apparently had not been recorded.

"I find it hard to believe that (campaign volunteers) don't tape these calls. They call people unsolicited and they aren't monitoring the calls or recording them? I think that is absolutely ridiculous," she said.

"I mean, how often must this happen — that someone is rude to a volunteer that they don't want to talk to?"

Hughes said she wants to file a countercomplaint against the volunteer.

"She has made a charge that will follow me the rest of my life," she said.

"I find that repugnant and violating — that some person got her undies in a bundle because she didn't like what I had to say."

[LibertyRocks]

I agree, and there is no need to apologize for your words. Were I not writing this online you may be shocked by some of the words I’ve been using to describe this lately! ;)

Like you said though - no matter what happens, no matter how long it takes FREEDOM and RIGHTEOUSNESS ALWAYS prevails over evil and hate... It’s like it’s written in the Bible - at the end of the trials and tribulations GOD will win in the end, and we know he is on the side of FREEDOM and LOVE, and GRACE - NOT COMMUNIST SLAVERY! :)

[Biggirl]

Thank-you!

[LibertyRocks]

Welcome to FR! Thank you so much for the update. I’ll be praying for Jessica - truth prevails, even if it takes a while. :) If you speak with her, please tell her there are a LOT of people here in her corner, and I know a LOT of people will be praying for her!

[LibertyRocks]

I just realized that YOU are most likely Jessica! (I haven’t had enough caffeine! LOL). Anyway, my comment still stands! :) It’s great to have you here, and please know there are a LOT of people “behind you” in this. Stay strong and keep your chin up!

[antisocial]

“I am sure that many or most of the Secret Service guys (and gals) are not leftists.”

I don’t suppose you are familiar with how much affirmative action has changed all law enforcement agencies over the last 10 years or so. They are mostly leftists!

[jmcenanly]

What is really troubling is that he hasn’t even been elected yet.

[JJbinks]

Your accounting of this event has left me chilled to the bone. I have contacted several of my favorite blogs, our local talk radio station and FNC. I am praying that this will be brought out in the open to all Americans so that the file that the Gestapo now has on you will be purged and burned. God bless you and your family.

[TaxRelief]

I hope O’Reilly interviews her...

[TaxRelief]

First Corsi being detained in Kenya, and now this... we should be very concerned about these brownshirt tactics.

Thank you for being strong. Your strength may be critical in preventing a ‘secret service’ expansion of power if Obama gets elected.

If you need financial assistance for a lawyer at any point, there are several groups that are dedicated to this sort of thing.

[Ditter]

This the scariest story I have ever heard!

[quillizmightier]

That’s a good point, though I feel it is more effective if the same agents judge the behavior, credibility and mannerisms of both sides. This is why I want the report opened to scrutiny. I want to know that they did it by the book and I am willing to take a polygraph...I’d like to know if she is as well. I also want to know at what level this call to the Secret Service was initiated because I think it is pertinent to know how well trusted was this person who has some pretty poor judgment.

[realcleanguy]

I know. It’s coming

[brytlea]

We used to live in Henderson. I’m not at all surprised to find feisty people in Lufkin!

[Nowhere Man]

Then hide your guns. Because the Gestapo is coming for them. With Obama not having a birth certificate, and so much mystery surrounding him, it’s almost like the “Chosen” one is the Anti-Christ. No power on earth can stop him.

Maybe he actually beamed down from Farrikan's "Mother Ship." B-) Seriously, I don't think he is The Anti-Christ, but I do see him as "an Anti-Christ," he does have charisma, at least it works on the shiftless dummies that would vote for him while it does not work for anyone that has an IQ of 100 or above. Those shiftless dummies in addition to being mesmerized by his charisma are the most vicious I have ever seen. He's Jim Jones' love child, well, he can out Jim Jones, Jim Jones. He does have one shield he can use if attacked, the "race card."

[frog in a pot]

“I recently listened to a speech of his that he gave in Reno. To ME it sounded an awful lot like a DRAFT - mandatory service in either the peace corps or the military.”

Infiltrating the Armed Services as best as possible would seem a prudent first step for a marxist US president.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

I’d love for you to post your story over at noquarterusa.net.

Those folks are hot on 0bama’s trail of lies, corruption and extremism. They’d love to hear your story. And they are mostly former Hillary supporters!!

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Praying for you and your family’s peace of mind and safety. Stay strong!

[Nowhere Man]

Does not suprise me. As I have been saying, the seeds of a new civil war are being planted as we speak and it will tear America apart.

I feel like I'm seeing John Titor's prediction come true if Obama is elected. John Titor is a supposed time traveller from 2036 who came back to 1975 and 2000 where he talked to people about future history. Basically he said there will be a civil war, between ideologies and generally between rural/suburban and urban America where the urban side rules and curtails liberties. It starts, goes on and Red China and Russia who feel threatened, launch atomic attacks on our cities for which the rural/subarban forces actually feel greatful. After that, the U.S. is less centralized with some changes and the country is basically conservative/religious/libertarian.

My own belief is that I think the people behind the story and site are generally conservative/religious/libertarian (they have elements of all three, it is hard to place it) and made a story to warn of what could happen if we make the wrong choices. I don't dismiss time travel though, I just want to see more proof, until there is more proof, I'll maintain that it is a "what-if" story. Even Titor himself said that things can change to where his future doesn't happen in our timeline or it could just get shovel back a few years at worst. He figured the civil war would start in 2005, well we are a few years after that.

I think if McCain is elected, we will either push this much further down the road or even stop it, depending what we do in the future, but if Obama gets elected and starts to act like Mugabe, well, you might see a version of Titor's story happen.

John Titor's Story and Site

[quillizmightier]

HANNITY’S SHOW JUST CALLED ME...WILL BE CALLING BACK IN 5-10 MINUTES! WISH ME LUCK AND PRAAAAAAYYYYYY!

[griswold3]

Prayers and Good Luck! Sean Vannity isn’t such a bad guy!