Not content with just shooting old men in the face...

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Down in Texas, DeLay's goons decide to "wreck" his opponent's press conference, and in the process beat up a 70 year old lady.

I will soon post photographs of a "demonstration" (read: violent disruption) of Nick Lampson's news conference this morning in Sugar Land. Tom DeLay's campaign and a member of the State Republican Executive Committee called for volunteers to meet on the first floor of the parking garage and "wreck" Lampson's press conference.

One elderly Democratic woman was slightly injured when she was assaulted by a DeLay protester. The male DeLay supporter first hit her in the face with a sign and then grabbed her hat and tried to pull it down over her eyes. Think about this: Your Congressman asked his supporters to go out and assault old women. Okay, "wreck" them. But, that's all right because one of the Democrats shoved the DeLay protestor away from the elderly woman. We ain't doing non-violent protests when it comes to protecting our elderly.

Direct quote from the email the Rethugs sent out:

We would meet tomorrow morning at 9:45 am on the first floor of the parking garage attached to the Marriott. Please get folks to call our campaign office 281.343.1333 and let us know they can do it – or e-mail Leonard Cash (in the cc field above) so that we can get some head count. Let’s give Lampson a parting shot that wrecks his press conference.

Nice.

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The Lampson campaign just sent out an email with this comment:

We are extremely grateful for the many Republicans who emailed and called our campaign to apologize (even though it wasn't their obligation to do so) and say they really did not like what they saw from the DeLay staff yesterday. Sometimes, it's easy for those of us on the Lampson staff to get caught up in the back and forth with the dirty politics with the DeLay campaign. But this is the kind of positive outpouring that reminds those of us on staff that Nick is right, and we can reach out to folks on both sides of the aisle with civility and common sense. That's what separates our campaign from the bullying tactics and backroom dealing of Tom DeLay and his cronies.

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PS: Rumor has it that Tommy Boy is considering moving to Virginia. I suppose it's to avoid the Democratic witch hunt that plans to invent charges to convict him on. Damn that liberal den of vipers that is Texas! Wacko lefties.