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MrWendel

(1,881 posts)
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 02:31 PM Feb 2016

Vegas Paper: Someone Tried to Place Obituary Notice for Hillary

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/dem-primaries/270122-clinton-obituary-notice-prompts-secret-service-report




A man who appears to be a Bernie Sanders supporter has been reported to the Secret Service after trying to leave an obituary notice for Hillary Clinton in a Nevada newspaper.

The man, who identified himself as Don Schubert, filed the obituary notice Friday with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the newspaper reported.

The notice listed Clinton’s date of death as Saturday — the day of the Nevada Democratic presidential caucuses.

He was asked to leave the building and was later reported to the Secret Service by the Review-Journal.

The man was seen leaving the newspaper’s parking lot in a maroon Toyota Prius with several Sanders campaign stickers, and the newspaper said he was wearing a Sanders sticker on his shirt.

The official Sanders campaign website also lists “Don Schubert’s House” in Long Beach, Calif., as a volunteer phone bank site, the Review-Journal reported.

Contacted the by Review-Journal on Friday evening, Schubert said he had been contacted by a Secret Service agent, who said he could be arrested, but that the agency was not planning to do so.

He also said the obituary was an attempt at “political humor.”
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Vegas Paper: Someone Tried to Place Obituary Notice for Hillary (Original Post) MrWendel Feb 2016 OP
Culinary Union members, obituaries, what's next? leftofcool Feb 2016 #1
Trollilng eh, what's next? pdsimdars Feb 2016 #3
Wow, pretty scary stuff! MoonRiver Feb 2016 #2
Not too smart noretreatnosurrender Feb 2016 #4
She is not - but her ideas are SoLeftIAmRight Feb 2016 #5
Typical, another BernieBro in action. Beacool Feb 2016 #6
There was a time when things like that nadinbrzezinski Feb 2016 #7
Stupid, but it seems reasonable to assume he was declaring her political career dead. Motown_Johnny Feb 2016 #8
This just adds further proof TheFarS1de Feb 2016 #9

noretreatnosurrender

(1,890 posts)
4. Not too smart
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 02:37 PM
Feb 2016

Some people do get carried away with their humor. I wonder what the obit said?

I'm afraid it's going to be pretty predictable what will happen in this thread.

Beacool

(30,250 posts)
6. Typical, another BernieBro in action.
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 02:40 PM
Feb 2016

I wonder if this guy realizes that this kind of behavior is counterproductive.

Also, a bit premature.



 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
7. There was a time when things like that
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 02:43 PM
Feb 2016

Were not just common, but laughed at. The fact the SS was called tells us far more of the US of paranoia than anything else.

It is obvious this is a political death notice, not a physical one. And yes, we used to see this regularly at the turn of the last century. It is truly an old, even ancient, dirty trick.

 

Motown_Johnny

(22,308 posts)
8. Stupid, but it seems reasonable to assume he was declaring her political career dead.
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 02:47 PM
Feb 2016

If it was anything else then the guy deserves what he gets.





TheFarS1de

(1,017 posts)
9. This just adds further proof
Sat Feb 20, 2016, 02:49 PM
Feb 2016

that the media in no way are preferential in the treatment of Hillary....lol . Talk about a non story , you are nearly through the bottom of the barrel and scrapping floor if this is the outrage indicator .

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