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Hoffman Camp, Right-Wing Bloggers Accuse Dems Of Slashing Supporter's Car -- Police Say He Drove Over Bottle
Eric Kleefeld | November 3, 2009, 6:07PM
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Earlier today, the Hoffman campaign and conservative bloggers threw a fit over a very nefarious accusation: That somebody had slashed the tire of a Hoffman poll-watcher's pickup truck.
"Hoffman Poll Watcher Has Tires Slashed," blared Red State, with photos of the truck and its flat tire. And Hoffman himself chimed in.
"We just had a report that one of our pollsters in Clinton County just had their tires slashed," Hoffman said. "So I think the Democrats are doing everything they possibly can to steal this election away from the 23rd District."
However, the Wall Street Journal reports that the local police captain said there's another explanation: "This was not a tire slashing--this was some guy who drove over a bottle and cut his tire."
Amusingly, Red State updated their post as follows: "[updated:] Local police are not willing to confirm it was a tire slashing and say it could be that the poll watcher ran over a bottle."
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mans_best_friend
November 3, 2009 6:14 PM
Local police not willing to confirm that Doug Hoffman has sex with goats.
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fsudirectory
November 3, 2009 6:30 PM in reply to mans_best_friend
I heard constituents of his were concerned about his sexual acts with Goats.
I think its an election breaker
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Common Sense Caucus
November 3, 2009 6:36 PM in reply to mans_best_friend
LOL! Local police not willing to say Doug Hoffman had sex with Glenn Beck
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holyhandgrenaid
November 3, 2009 6:41 PM in reply to Common Sense Caucus
That would be because the visual is too horrifying and they don't want to think about it.
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Matt Jones
November 3, 2009 6:54 PM in reply to Common Sense Caucus
The goggles! They do nothing!
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punkdavid
November 3, 2009 7:11 PM in reply to Common Sense Caucus
Why are local police unwilling to refute that Doug Hoffman raped and killed a young girl in 1990?
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Jaycal
November 3, 2009 6:28 PM
Typical net result... Republicans try to get public worked up over a problem of the Republicans' own making, then won't take responsibility for creating it in the first place.
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tiowally
November 3, 2009 6:29 PM
Professional victims.
P.S. Hoffman still hasn't denied having sex with goats.
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Cath
November 4, 2009 4:16 PM in reply to tiowally
But has Doug denied his tryst with Glenn Beck yet? Guess it's "no comment" all the way with Hoffman and Pals, unless they can whine about Dems.
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JNagarya
November 5, 2009 11:09 PM in reply to Cath
Hoffman "Palling" around again?
Why is the "Liberal" media not reporting that?
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Kinkistyle
November 3, 2009 6:31 PM
Whiny, gutless, reactionary, scaredy-rats.
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Zell
November 3, 2009 6:50 PM
DEMOCRATS CRAPPED ALL OVER MY BACKYARD!
Disgusting. Simply disgusing. And inconsiderate, too! My poor dog - he's tied up on a leash out there all day long! Now he has to run around in Democrat crap.
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CT Voter
November 3, 2009 7:27 PM in reply to Zell
Oh, nicely done, Zell: Now he has to run around in Democrat crap.
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pppwww
November 3, 2009 6:53 PM
i heard that the hoffman's "victim card" was trapped in the bottle, and the only way to get it out was to run over the bottle
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Matt Jones
November 3, 2009 7:03 PM
What's next - a Hoffman supporter carving an 'O' into their face? It might be a good plan, except your average teabagger could probably manage to do it backwards. :)
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Dogger
November 4, 2009 10:54 AM in reply to Matt Jones
That's the advantage of carving an "O" in your own face: upside down or in a mirror, it still looks like an "O". So does an "H".
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Matt Jones
November 4, 2009 11:48 PM in reply to Dogger
I think you underestimate the power of stoopid. :)
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jeffgee
November 3, 2009 7:24 PM
Has Fox started flogging this yet? It'd be good for 18 hours by their track record on made up umbrage stories.
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Frankly_my_dear
November 3, 2009 7:47 PM
Police: "What happened to your tire?"
Poll Watcher: "I ran over a bottle."
Police: "Didn't you see it?"
Poll Watcher: "Naw, the kid had it under his coat."
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mgardener
November 4, 2009 3:33 AM
I voted at that polling place in Plattsburgh.
The truck in question had a big Hoffman sign visible in the parking lot of the polling place. Another truck(helper?) was parked on the road to the polling place with a visible Hoffman sign.
I don't think that either of the trucks, with signs, were outside of the hundred feet perimeter that is required by law.
Also somebody put Hoffman signs on the hospital lawn, which was also on the drive to the polling place.
I called the hospital and they removed the signs and I called the board of elections about the Hoffman signs and the polling place
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Cath
November 4, 2009 4:21 PM in reply to mgardener
Good on ya, mgardener. Call them on their crap. They wouldn't hesitate to do the same to a Dem -- or to lie, cheat, and steal to win. Thanks for taking action.
I am so sick and tired of these "conservative" whiners.
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J0hnGalt
November 4, 2009 9:35 AM
They knew it had to be a "Democrat" bottle because it had a Sobe' label on it...
DFH's....
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Anasazi
November 4, 2009 9:38 AM
Why is the Wall Street Journal reporting news?
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salame
November 4, 2009 10:04 AM
Hoffman, Hoffman, Hoffman, you little twit.
Go running back to daddy beck and complain about all of the
"democrat" dirty tricks and how you would have won if
only they hadn't put that damned bottle underneath that tire!
Creepy little man
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FlownOver
November 4, 2009 10:30 AM
And STILL no sex-with-goats denial from Hoffman! Sixteen hours and counting! What's he hiding? The American people have a right to know.
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The Decider
November 4, 2009 10:43 AM
You don't think he was trying to get the goat drunk, do you? That might explain the bottle.
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tomfodw
November 4, 2009 10:53 AM
Next thing the wingnuts will claim is, the bottle had a liberal bias. Or that some Democrat planted it where the Republican was sure to drive over it. Or...
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Democracy Boy
November 4, 2009 11:34 AM
Each election provides further proof that the Buddha was right: Reality is an illusion. We just create/believe whatever the hell we want. Evidence? Visit redstate.com at any hour, day or night.
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eve cairo
November 4, 2009 4:42 PM
At least this time they are not claiming a black man slashed a woman's face with a bottle like the mccain crazies did last year.
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