Well, um, they're "motivated"...yeah.

[Marcus Bryant]

http://www.local6.com/politics/3785861/detail.html



Protestors Ransack Bush/Cheney Headquarters In Orlando
2 People Receive Minor Injuries During Protest

POSTED: 6:05 pm EDT October 5, 2004
UPDATED: 6:29 pm EDT October 5, 2004

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A group of protestors stormed and then ransacked a Bush-Cheney headquarters building in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday, according to Local 6 News.

Local 6 News reported that several people from the group of 100 Orlando protestors face possible assault charges after the group forced their way inside the Republican headquarters office.

While in the building, some of the protestors drew horns and a mustache on a poster of President George W. Bush and poured piles of letters in the office, according to the report.

"We told them to leave, they broke the law," Republican headquarters volunteer Mike Broom said.

Two protestors received minor injuries when the crowd stormed the building, including a Republican volunteer.

One of the protestors said she wanted to send a message.

"We want to send a clear message to Bush, we want him to take his hands off our overtime pay," protestor Esmeralda Heuilar said.

Local 6 News learned that most of the protestors were from the AFL-CIO and were taking part in one of 20 other coordinated protests around the country.

A spokesperson with the AFL-CIO told Local 6 News that the Orlando protest did not go as planned.

A protest similar to Orlando's demonstration was held at a Bush-Cheney office in Miami at the same approximate time, Local 6 News reported.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.


Copyright 2004 by Internet Broadcasting Systems and Local6.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.



http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20041005-024050-1855r.htm


Shots fired at Bush Tenn. headquarters

Knoxville, TN, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- An unknown gunman fired several shots into the Bearden, Tenn., Bush-Cheney campaign office Tuesday, WBIR-TV in Knoxville reported.

According to Knoxville police officers on the scene, it is believed that the two separate shots were fired from a car sometime between 6:30 a.m. and 7:15 a.m. One shot shattered the glass in one front door and the other cracked the glass in another of the front doors.

There were no witnesses to the shooting. A customer at a nearby dry cleaning store noticed shattered glass on the sidewalk in front of the headquarters and called police.

Volunteers and staffers at the campaign office say they have no clues as to who might have committed the crime. However, they add that the shooting makes them even more enthusiastic and energized about working for their candidates.

"If I have to sleep here (at the campaign office) now, that's what I'll do," says volunteer Suzanne Dewar.

[exstatic]

Uh, I don't think that Bush/Cheney needs to worry about the Iraqis hating them...

[SpursWoman]

"We want to send a clear message to Bush, we want him to take his hands off our overtime pay," protestor Esmeralda Heuilar said.






Kerry can have that one, too. And then tax the shit out her overtime pay. :lol

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Who needs terrorists when we've got the democratic party?

Osama's probably sitting on a beach somewhere with Zawahari lighting up a Cuban cigar, laughing at the "silly liberals" and their hate for America and Bush.

[exstatic]

Bush signed into law a provision that direcly took a LOT more money out of their pockets than the measly tax cuts put in. Can you blame them for being pissed?

[Marcus Bryant]

Wait, there's more...

http://www.channel3000.com/news/3776992/detail.html




Swastika Burned Into Grass On Bush-Cheney Supporter's Lawn
Homeowner: 'My Signs Are Going Right Back In The Yard'

POSTED: 11:57 am CDT October 1, 2004
UPDATED: 12:31 pm CDT October 1, 2004

MADISON, Wis. -- Madison homeowners are livid after vandals defaced their homes.

Someone burned an 8-foot-by-8-foot Nazi swastika on a home's lawn near where Bush-Cheney signs were posted. The vandals used grass killer to spray the symbol.

Several nearby homes were vandalized -- all were within a two-block radius on the West Side, near Ice Age Trail, News 3 reported.

State Republican Party officials claim it's the latest in a series of desperate acts by Democrats.

Homeowners are angry, but resolute in what they plan to do next.

"I just cannot believe that someone would take the liberty to do this," said homeowner Rob Schaeffer. "We're appalled that someone would choose to destroy our property because they don't believe in our political views. My signs are going right back in the yard. This is my property. We live here. We have rights."

Police are investigating the criminal damage and told the homeowner it will be investigated as a hate crime, which carries stiffer penalties.


Copyright 2004 by Channel 3000. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

[SpursWoman]

I'm not defending that, and I don't necessarily agree with it....


BUT.....

Ever worked in payroll when the company's business slows dramatically and you pray every day that the checks you do cut clear the bank? While everyone is bitching at you because they aren't getting their overtime?

What a lot people don't understand is that overtime is very, very rarely ever guaranteed...and certainly not to bank on it.


But absolutely, if you're working over 40 you should be compensated for it some way or another.

I'd kill for comp time. :(

[exstatic]

But absolutely, if you're working over 40 you should be compensated for it some way or another.

Then there's the reality. Most of this law was driven by BIG companies, SW, not the little guys. They have very few worries, and MUCHO influence on the hill.

[Shelly]

I'm not defending that, and I don't necessarily agree with it....


BUT.....

Ever worked in payroll when the company's business slows dramatically and you pray every day that the checks you do cut clear the bank? While everyone is bitching at you because they aren't getting their overtime?

What a lot people don't understand is that overtime is very, very rarely ever guaranteed...and certainly not to bank on it.


But absolutely, if you're working over 40 you should be compensated for it some way or another.

I'd kill for comp time. :(

What if you're Union? My dad's company has 3 different unions and it's in our contracts that after 8 hours a day, it's overtime. And God forbid you short them a penny.

[travis2]

Typical liberals.

And as usual, not a one here denounced the actions.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Well if they're getting short-changed then they should settle it where the great Constitution of our country allows it: at the polls.

All this destruction of property in the "name of protest" is vandalism, no matter what sorry ass excuse you're trying to roll out in defense of it.

[whottt]

Yup every time I read about the dumb assholes that are supporting Kerry I am more and more convinced we need to keep Bush in the Whitehouse. Too bad the gang that tore down the American Flag and held it hostage(yes they held it hostage) in protest of the RNC didn't get any media coverage.

I also get get pissed every time I hear a foreign government tell us who our president should be.

[Duff McCartney]

How do you hold a flag hostage? What are the demands? Blue dye number 4?

[whottt]

LMAO, they said they weren't going to return it unless the Republicans shut down their convention. I don't think it was returned...I am pretty sure they murdered it.

It was the flag being used for the convention.

[Duff McCartney]

What an incredible tragedy for our times Whottt...it's gotta be the equivalent of Kent State for this generation.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

I guess destroying flags and symbols of America's patriotism are nothing new for libs...

[Duff McCartney]

I guess destroying flags and symbols of America's patriotism are nothing new for libs...

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Oh my bad, I forgot, let me try again...

The American flag is a symbol of persecution and hate of foreigners and outsiders. The only good flag is a burning one or one being pissed on [/pansy ass tree hugging, terrrorist loving liberal]

[Duff McCartney]

The American flag is a symbol of persecution and hate of foreigners and outsiders. The only good flag is a burning one or one being pissed on [/pansy ass tree hugging, terrrorist loving liberal]

Are you speaking from your experiences as a "pansy ass tree hugging, terrorist loving liberal"?

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

No experience being one, plenty of experience watching them put their foot in their mouth.

[Duff McCartney]

No experience being one, plenty of experience watching them put their foot in their mouth.

Better than having their head up their ass like some people...IE you.... :smokin

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Ow, you got me. You really got me. How will I go on?!?!?!

Shouldn't you be off chasing Adrienne or something?

[Duff McCartney]

Shouldn't you be off chasing Adrienne or something?

What are you living in the past? Seems your political beliefs aren't the only thing that are a relic of the stone age.

Speaking of her...I heard through the grapevine that she was getting married.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

What are you living in the past?

Hey, it seems to be a perfectly acceptable plan of attack for the demos and your hero Kerry.

"I served four months in 'Nam."

"Roll the clocks back to 9/10 and let us take charge."

Blah blah blah.

[Nbadan]

As with the serial stager incident, who was probably responsible for the shooting at the other GOP office, there is nothing these Neocons and their bobbleheads won't do to win W re-election.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Yeah, that's it. Let's see, first we plotted 9/11. Then we go around shooting at people, and pay AFL-CIO lackeys to ransack party offices.

You're sure on top of things Nbadunce.

[Marcus Bryant]

You wish, danny boy.

[Duff McCartney]

Hey, it seems to be a perfectly acceptable plan of attack for the demos and your hero Kerry.

My hero? What are you stupid too? Not everyone who is against you is a Kerry supporter moron.

[Marcus Bryant]

Don't let the party die...


http://tampatrib.com/MGBF1XMUYZD.html

Labor Activists Invade Bush's Campaign Sites

By ELLEN GEDALIUS and WILLIAM MARCH
The Tampa Tribune
Published: Oct 6, 2004

TAMPA - Labor activists stormed President Bush's campaign headquarters in Tampa on Tuesday, part of an orchestrated event nationwide involving thousands of people protesting his policies on overtime pay.

No one was injured or arrested in Tampa, police said. Miami and Orlando also were among the 17 cities in swing- voting states where the AFL-CIO organized such events.

Protesters, including construction and hospital workers, were armed with postcards and petitions expressing their disapproval of Bush's overtime policies. Some held signs reading: ``Don't Take Away Our Overtime.''

Activists put at least one sign on a wall of the headquarters at 800 W. Platt St., pleading with Bush to ``keep his hands off overtime pay,'' said Eddie Acosta, an AFL-CIO member who organized the Tampa rally.

The Bush administration issued new overtime pay rules in August. Proponents say the changes could make about 1 million more workers eligible for overtime. Critics contend 6 million could be reclassified as exempt from overtime pay.

Bush ``knows we're frustrated with this,'' said John Cox, an AFL-CIO member based in Orlando. ``We thought this is the best way we can get our message heard.''

Stan Fields, a Bush campaign coordinator in Tampa, said the message was lost in the tactic as dozens of demonstrators rushed into the headquarters about 1 p.m.

``They were stamping. They were chanting,'' Fields said. ``Literally, you couldn't hear inside this building. This place was rocking.''

Al Higginbotham, Hillsborough County Republican Party chairman, said he arrived late to the scene and was told demonstrators, although not making physical contact with campaign workers, had moved within a few inches of them to impede them from leaving.

Joseph Agostini, spokesman for the state GOP, complained that just hours before Tuesday night's vice presidential debate, ``a forum for civil discussion of issues, we have these organized labor thugs using terror tactics in America.''

The demonstrators did not disrupt business, said Rob Ray, Hillsborough County Democratic Party vice chairman.

``That's what they always try to say about working people - that when you demonstrate together for a cause, you're being a mob or a thug,'' Ray said. ``No one was hurt. We abided by what the police officers asked us to do.''

Protesters stayed in the public area of the headquarters or on the street, and they left when asked, said police spokeswoman Laura McElroy.

``They might have been boisterous or somewhat intimidating, but they didn't threaten anybody,'' McElroy said.

Still, Republicans were alarmed.

``It's a shame that the campaign has gone to the point that they'd use strong-arm tactics against volunteers,'' Higginbotham said. ``It's unsettling to people who are volunteering to a cause they believe in, and I can assure you that folks I'm associated with will never be involved in an effort like that.''


Reporter Valerie Kalfrin contributed to this report. Reporter Ellen Gedalius can be reached at (813) 259-7562. Reporter William March can be reached at (813) 259-7761.

[Nbadan]

Oh, no, they put up disparaging signs of the Emperor on walls,...what are good conservative folk to do?

[travis2]

I see you've been fitted for your swastika armband and your brown shirt...

[Marcus Bryant]

Oh, no, they put up disparaging signs

..on private property.

No surprise that danny boy believes in such tactics.