Idaho GOP leader and teabagger arrested

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/08/20/business-financials-financial-impact-us-idaho-gop-leader-arrest_6800906.html

By JOHN MILLER , 08.20.09, 05:54 PM EDT


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 in Ada County jail after being accused of pointing a gun at the homeowner.

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.

According to police in the Boise suburb of Meridian, resident Robert Lutes called officers just before 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to report McAffee had pointed a .357 Magnum handgun at him during a verbal confrontation. McAffee acknowledged he pointed the gun at Lutes, according to the police account. snip

The Idaho Republican Party said the arrest of one of its southwestern Idaho leaders was a "personal matter."

Tea party, tea room, don't you understand that these Repubs need privacy to wave their short arms around???

One of the first things you should know about guns is that you should never point it at someone you're not prepered to kill. It's only in the movies that you see a gun as a tool of intimidation.

If a cop had witnessed that, McAffee would probably have been killed on the spot.

the heating up argument. Republican logic.

However there are people that are not intimidated and will take the gun away form the person pointing it and ram it up their ass sideways.

I am saying that only an idiot would brandish one with the intention of intimidating someone. Because when you do that the odds that someone will get killed go up dramatically, and that someone might be you.

abided by is 'don't show a gun unless you're ready to shoot it', and my Dad taught me very young to never answer the question, "Do you own a gun?"

I can say that I have no need to carry a gun around with me all of the time, and that in IMSHO the people showing up with guns at public events are assholes.

its thugs like that guy who make it harder for us all...

... before this happens at a town hall meeting.

that they need something with power to intimidate people? Take that power away and guess what?

I'd bet money on it.

As just plain old Steve, I revel in the following:

1. It took place in Garden City, Idaho (been there, it's not).

2. He's a Paultard.

3. Most importantly, no one was physically hurt, and,

4. This GOP 'leader' had a visit to the Graybar Hotel.

5. It might get in the news, but probably not.

No offense to sane Idahoans. I know some.

He's been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Asshat.

Phineas Priesthood member. Are they back?

Is, depending on the laws where he was, had he killed the guy, he probably could have claimed self defense and that would have been that. Georgia laws seem to have been going that direction.

It sounds like McAffee is saying that the home-owned slapped his hand down on his car out of frustration. Thats still no reason to pull a gun. If you're out there being an asshole, doing a shitty job for the banks, documenting homes of people who had the misfortune of falling behind on their payments, you should know some people are going to be pissed at you. Its stupid to escalate the situation unnecessarily with a gun when there's no real threat to your person.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/873624.html