WATCH: Commissioner strikes reporter during confrontation

Another nuanced Democrat politician in action.

really?   come on lets stop trying to find things. the reporter hounded him,  twice he tried to push the reporter away, yet the reporter kept after him. I would call that harassment.  

Call it whatever you want to call it, you can't hit people. He was being asked about the crooks he had working with him, that's what p***** him off. As for "finding" things, I didn't have to look at all. It was on the front "page", so apparently someone agrees you can't hit people for doing their jobs. How funny, if it'd had been a Republican they'd be calling him a monster. Heck, a Republican can't even make a remark without a firestorm ensuing, no matter how true the remark, much less hit someone.

AP reported it, even CNN, reported it, I saw the tape and didn't see the reporter "get in his face". Maybe he shouldn't indulge in voter fraud if he didn't want to be questioned.

 

http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2...ama-blood-sot-es.cnn

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The article says nothing about his party affiliation.  Candidates for offices of the City of Dothan are elected in a non-partisan election, as is the case in all municipal elections in Alabama.

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THIS Republican made some life-threatening remarks, which received widespread coverage, something you would presumably call a "firestorm." A mere slap would not do for Congressman Grimm:

 

"Washington (CNN) - After first defending his actions, Rep. Michael Grimm, R-New York, apologized Wednesday for physically threatening a NY1 News reporter at the Capitol.

It all started when the congressman, who's under investigation by the Justice Department for illegal fundraising during his 2010 campaign, walked away from an on-camera interview Tuesday night after the State of the Union address. Grimm stormed off when Scotto tried to ask him a question at the end about the campaign finance allegations

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"Alright, so Congressman Michael Grimm does not want to talk about the allegations concerning his campaign finances," Scotto said. "We wanted to get him on camera on that, but he, as you saw, refused to talk about that. Back to you."

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"With the camera still rolling, Grimm surged toward the reporter, who appeared visibly surprised.

The second-term congressman, who's also a former Marine and former FBI agent, spoke aggressively to Scotto for about 20 seconds.

 

NY1, a CNN affiliate, broadcast the confrontation late Tuesday night, though it bleeped out the obscenities.

 

"Let me be clear to you: If you ever do that to me again, I'll throw you off this f***ing balcony," Grimm said, as they were standing on the third floor of the rotunda in the Cannon House building."

 

By the way, Best, elections in Dothan and other municipalities are non-partisan.  Candidates do not run as Republicans, Democrats, Socialists or by an other party name. You of course assumed the commissioner is a Democrat because he is black,but you could not have known that with certainty.  There ARE some black Republicans here and there in Alabama.

 

The commissioner has been arrested and charged:

 

http://www.wtvy.com/home/headl...orter-330907822.html

 

First,  Contenduhh, I looked up his party affiliation. Second, your post showing the news did mention the Republican's affiliation supports Best's statement.

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Who's beth? Why are you playing the "so's yer old man" you claim everyone else does? Hmmmmmm? All it proves is what I said, remarks by Republicans cause a firestorm. He did not hit anyone. People voting for newsome know exactly what his politics are. He ran for office in 2010 as a democrat. So, once more, a beternnun FAIL.

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No FAIL at all. You made the generic statement concerning Republicans and firestorms.  I merely followed that up with a description of an instance where a deranged Republican, by his intemperate and threatening remarks, created his own firestorm.  Any congressman of any party who had made those kinds of threatening remarks on camera would have been widely exposed in the media, and deservedly so.  That particular GOP congressman has resigned in disgrace, by the way, having plead guilty to felony tax evasion, among other things:.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/29/...sign-soon/index.html

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How ludicrously absurd, dire. Best's statement was as follows:

 

"Heck, a Republican can't even make a remark without a firestorm ensuing, no matter how true the remark, much less hit someone."

 

Yes, the statement is true, but only half true.  Had a Democrat made the same outrageous on-camera  threat that Grimm did, there would have been a media firestorm of equal intensity and the political affiliation of the offender would have been noted. The only reason Grimm's party affiliation was noted (solely by that "R-New York") is because it is, and long has been, a conventional, routine thing to note party affiliation when reporting the actions of political figures.  Read many newspapers?

 

All I supported was the demonstrated fact that outrageous actions by elected officials get reported, irrespective of party affiliation.

 

Best, as usual, wildly exaggerates with her absolutist claim that   "[A] Republican can't even make a remark without a firestorm ensuing...." Any remark at all, Best?  She never seems to be able to properly qualify her wildly all-subsuming statements, a factor that only adds to the absurdity of much of what she posts.  Do you really want to line up with that kind of sloppy extremism,  dire?