Idaho GOP leader (Tea-Party Organizer) who helped spur coup arrested (assault with a deadly weapon)

Source: Idaho Statesman

Idaho GOP leader who helped spur coup arrested
By JOHN MILLER - Associated Press Writer
Published: 08/20/09

BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho Republican Party leader who helped oust the state GOP chairman in 2008 faces charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after an altercation escalated while he photographed a home with a delinquent mortgage.

Challis McAffee, 33, the GOP chairman from the Boise suburb of Garden City and one of 231 voting members of the Idaho Republican Central Committee, was arrested after being accused of pointing a gun at the homeowner. He was released from Ada County jail on Thursday after family members and friends posted a portion of the $50,000 bond.

McAffee works for a contractor hired by Wells Fargo & Co. to document the condition of homes where mortgages are past due or in foreclosure. A Wells Fargo spokesman condemned McAffee's behavior, calling it "horrific and absolutely inexcusable."

McAffee, a backer of libertarian-leaning former GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul and an activist in this year's anti-big-government "Tea Party" protests, helped organize Paul backers who aligned at last June's Idaho State Republican Convention in Sandpoint with other foes of then-state GOP Chairman Kirk Sullivan. Sullivan was voted from office in favor of Norm Semanko.

Read more: http://www.idahostatesman.com/531/story/871989.html

Adding that McAffee's bonus check is already in the mail.

The liability issue will hit them hard. Their lawyers and insurance will demand paperwork that shows contract employees understand a corporate policy of no guns at work.

My conjecture is much more likely to happen than your's.

I mean he has to defend himself against blood thirsty socialist tyrants constantly, else they will confiscate his all-so-valuable property and enslave him by making him pay for someone else's medical care

What will probably happen is Wells-Fargo will cut loose this group of 'contractors' and hire back exactly the same people under a new 'contract' name.

That's worst case...

Given the laissez-faire regulatory and legal climate the Banksters are operating under currently. I doubt anything will happen to Wells-Fargo... Except for rubes depositors getting the idea that just maybe Wells-Fargo doesn't have their best interests at heart via stories such as this and leaving in droves. That's where the spin Marketeers come in... To squelch the implications of stories like this from sinking in to the masses. Keep them isolated and quiet. Those are the catch words, eh?

They are still very likely to be held responsible for the contractors they hire. The contractors are liable for the workers they hire. Good lawyers will find a way to the entity with the deepest pockets.

The increased use of 'contract employees' is just one of many tax dodges corporations use to put more of the tax burden on the working class.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: If there's anything more sure in life than death and taxes, it is that whatever corporations say they want in a contract, they get.

while it was still legal.

People merely threatend people in this one. Wonder if it would have been scarier for the neighbor if this Pig did it without the gun? Doubtful.

I think this is just the start. If we think we've heard whacko gun stories lately, we're in for some real entertainment. Not the good kind either.

give all owners and perspective buyers a psych test.

I think that innocent blood is going to be spilled because of these lunatics.

The repugs only have themselves to blame, the politicians will try to pull back from any violence that occurs. It is our jobs to make sure that they stay forever linked.

Guns are only used for protection! Never to intimidate, threaten or harass!

:sarcasm:

Now you know what kind of an uphill struggle we progressives are facing here in the gem state. No doubt there will be a majority of mouth breathing, knuckle dragging, gun enthusiasts that will leap to his defense. My home state is chock full of neo-fascist neo-cons and they have elected the most conservative republican legislature in the 50 states. Still we fight, hoping some day the people will wake up. republican leadership has forced nearly 12% of the population to live in poverty and Idaho is #1 for young children living below the poverty line. But we got guns - oh god almighty how we got guns...

What the hell happened?

Idaho used to be a proud pale blue union state. Up north where I live, our silver miners unionized and led a strike back in 1892. In a dispute over living wages and safety in 1899 they dynamited mines and as a result were put into a prison camp by the US military in an attempt to force mines open. In the end, the responsible former governor was blown to bits by a bomb in his mailbox. We elected Frank Church, Cecil Andrus and a few other good Dems. While its true the lunatics now have a firm hold on the southern Mormon end of the state, the north still holds pockets of progressives.

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that are trying to incite murder of our President.

WHOA! That's hypocrite dynamite!

I bet he just LOVES his work.

............Just from what I read it seems he would have been within his rights to protect himself. I am waiting for one of these ass holes to turn some city hall meeting into Dodge city. Crazy motherfuckers!!!!

and then work for a big bank that promptly forecloses
they say they're pulling for the small entrepreneur, make up all sorts of wonderful promises of what they bring--and then fail to acknowledge that their golden-calf free market is by nature self-immolating, since competition means running the other guy out of business
their motto is, "Screw you, I've got mine" and "Might makes right"--so they're naturally bullies; bullies with RPGs stashed in their basement for when the Stalinists come over the hill

life's a perpetual 1957 for them

45-3-103. Use of force in defense of occupied structure. A person is justified in the use of force or threat to use force against another when and to the extent that he reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to prevent or terminate such other's unlawful entry into or attack upon an occupied structure. However, he is justified in the use of force likely to cause death or serious bodily harm only if:
(1) the entry is made or attempted in violent, riotous, or tumultuous manner and he reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent an assault upon or offer of personal violence to him or another then in the occupied structure; or
(2) he reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent the commission of a forcible felony in the occupied structure.

The Wells Fargo bastard is lucky to be alive.