I'm the New Media Director for the U.S. Senate campaign of Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, running for the U.S. Senate.
Today an angry mob of about fifty tea party protesters crowded around Brunner campaign headquarters in Columbus. Sent by a lunatic group called Blood of Patriots, the protestors shouted "Stalin!" and carried signs including "Impeach Brunner!"and refused to leave.
Jennifer Brunner is no stranger to right wing rage. During the 2008 election the GOP and right wing groups whipped the wingnuts into a frenzy with unfounded allegations of collusion with ACORN to steal the election by promoting supposed vote fraud, etc. The results included death threats and a suspicious package delivered to her office, and she was protected by state troopers until the threat of violence subsided. She fought off the GOP in lawsuits that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The teabagger nutjobs will no doubt step up their attacks on Jennifer, but it is particularly disgusting that they involve little children in their smear campaigns and threats. More after the break.
The above is a photograph from today. The child is carrying a photograph of brutal dictator Josef Stalin while the protesters chant and demand that Jennifer Brunner be thrown out of office. (Credit where credit is due, Ohio blogger Tim Russo was up with this story first.)
The fact is, Jennifer Brunner draws their fire because she is an outspoken progressive. She earned the JFK Profiles in Courage Award for her heroic and successful efforts to clean up Ohio's elections and protect our votes, which including ousting a corrupt GOP county party chair from a board of elections and forcing out the entire board of elections in Ohio's largest county so she could junk their faulty voting machines and start over with paper ballots.
You can help Jennifer Brunner fight back against the crazies. As it happens, tomorrow is our Victory For Courage money bomb to celebrate our grassroots victory in defeating a surreptitious attempt by her primary opponent to obtain a state party endorsement in the primary election, and to build our momentum as early voting begins next Tuesday. Please go to VictoryForCourage.com now and make a contribution or pledge for tomorrow's big event.
Jennifer Brunner protected Ohio's election process in 2008, and you know what the 2008 election gave us, right? Yes, President Obama and a huge majority in Congress.
She had our backs then. Let's have her back now. PLEASE go to VictoryForCourage.com and help our campaign. It's not how much you give that matters, it's only that you join other progressives across the country and participate. This is a people-powered grassroots campaign that runs on small-dollar contributions and volunteers and netroots support.
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