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Obama Supporter Assaults Female McCain Volunteer in New York

On a Monday afternoon, September 15, 2008, three McCain volunteers were holding campaign signs and distributing leaflets on a busy corner of 51st Street and Lexington Avenue. As they were peacefully talking to each other, they were approached by a man who, in the words of the victim, provided the impression of “a rather benign, doughy-looking guy — not a person I would have expected to assault me.”He rushed towards them, grabbed a McCain sign off a volunteer’s hands, and tore it apart. That didn’t seem enoughThis is how the victim describes it:

I said, “What are you doing? You can’t do that!” And he was red in the face screaming, “You people are ridiculous!” And I said, “Yeah, whatever, but you can’t do that.”
So I reached for the sign that he ripped up, and he grabbed another sign, broke it, and ripped it to shreds. And when I said, “You can’t do that,” he took the stick from the sign and started beating me on the head with it. He broke the skin on my head, he scratched my wrist, and almost broke my glasses, and then he left.

I have volunteered at the local GOP office and we get people everyday who's sign has been stolen,vandalized,and one person even defecated on the sign they pulled up and threw in the yard. We also get people who say they have been yelled at and called names from people on the street when they wear Republican gear or bumper stickers. When I was a police officer, I only had calls from Republicans whose signs had been defaced, no Democrats. Who is really employing intimidation?