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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDAMN!!!!! anyone see this video that was done at a Nathan Deal event where a female was roughed up
By Security because she was recording the event.Some are saying this might be a game changer in the elections in GA. I wouldn't go that far after all it's stupid GA. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/31/1326165/-Progressives-of-Georgia-The-Nydia-Tisdale-Video-Can-Move-the-Election-toward-Carter-and-Nunn
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Sue them
boston bean
(36,221 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Vinca
(50,276 posts)At the very end, in particular, he apparently whacked her a good one - for no reason - out of range of the camera. This needs to be seen by every woman in that miserable state. (On a positive note, she was a white woman as opposed to a black man who would probably be at the morgue by now.)
CatWoman
(79,302 posts)what a fucking pig
wandy
(3,539 posts)I am not showing sarcasm here I am showing disgust.
Well that, and my low opinion of the Teapublican base.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)I stopped for the night on my way to Orlando. I am in Savannah.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)of aggressive behavior when it is used against the "others", (blacks, latinos, women, non-christians, jews, asians, etc....).
It will give them more reason to vote for Deal and Purdue.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
brooklynite
(94,591 posts)There's no news story posted; the video's not going viral, and unless someone can point to a decision made by the campaign, the only person who'll lose out will be the Security Guard.
Glitterati
(3,182 posts)First and foremost, this is the right eating the right.
The whole situation with this woman is strange, but she's a right winger in bed with the looniest of the loons in this county. She doesn't live here. She has no connection to this county, nor the politicians in this county, but she has targeted it for her stunts for some reason.
She was filming a city of Cumming meeting. Since the city records every public meeting and puts them on their web site, there's no reason to have a private person filming them as well. So, the Mayor asked her to quit filming. She refused. He had her removed from the meeting. She sued. The right wing State AG took her case against the Mayor and has won a finding against the Mayor and a $1200.00 fine for "violating sunshine laws."
Long story short, during the recent primaries (all republican candidates, not a single DEM qualified for the ballot in this county) she took a video and sliced and diced it to make one of the local republican candidates look bad. She ticked off the local republican party. At the next republican women's event, she was unceremoniously kicked out. The local republican party just wrote a set of media rules and regs designed to keep this woman out of ANY republican event.
You have to understand the local politics around here. They vote 90% republican every election. Then, within weeks of being sworn in, every office holder becomes Public Enemy #1 until the next election.
This is nothing more than republican eating republican. Local politics writ large, with republicans the only party involved.
The Mayor of the city she sued? He's been in office for over 40 years. The entire city council runs unopposed every election. The county politicians HATE THEM. Because the city owns the outlet to the water source and rules it with an iron hand. The Mayor screws the County every which way, every time he can. Frankly, he's been a good Mayor for the residents of the City (my home is inside the city limits) has kept taxes and expenses low for city residents by forcing the COUNTY to fork over sales tax revenue and water payments. Road are paved and well maintained inside the city limits. We have sidewalks that end at the city line. We are the county seat and the only city within the county.
The bottom line is simple - this is republican vs. republican and it's LOCAL.
Nothing will come of this.
The woman is a no name weirdo with a video camera who plans to make a living like the Westboro family - by causing a scene like this one and suing whoever is involved. So far, she's sued the City, the Republican Women of Forsyth County and I'm quite certain will have a lawsuit against several entities over this one. There were multiple reporters at this same event, and they were also recording. No one but this woman was asked to turn off her camera.
We do NOT do ourselves any favors getting involved here. Let them tear each other apart and destroy the local republican party.
But DEMs should stay the hell away.