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Protesters that were part of an angry mob that included many ACORN supporters nearly knocked New York state Sen. James Alesi, a Republican, down on the floor and spat in the face of his chief of staff, according to reports.

The protesters were reportedly upset that two Democratic senators decided to caucus with Republicans, a move that when finalized by the state Senate would hand Republicans control of it. Majority Democrats have shut down the chamber to prevent the transfer of power.

Meanwhile, Pennsylvania state Rep. Stephen Barrar, a Republican, is circulating a petition calling on his state's attorney general to investigate ACORN.

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Missy| 6.12.09 @ 7:06PM

Thugocratic party. ACORN is the enforcement arm of the Demo (thugo) cratic party.

Daisy| 6.12.09 @ 7:14PM

Shouldn't the Justice Dept. investigate this incident? Or will Holder give these ACORN thugs a pass just like the Black Panther thugs?

BrownShirts.

Fred| 6.12.09 @ 7:22PM

Yeah it's o.k. when it's just us little people out here, getting elections stolen by ACORN it's all different when it's a Senator getting mistreated, eh?

V Fitzpatrick| 6.12.09 @ 7:44PM

Angry ACORN Mob Intimidates NY Lawmaker, Assaults Top Aide

By Matthew Vadum on 6.12.09 @ 6:40PM

Protesters that were part of an angry mob that included many ACORN supporters nearly knocked New York state Sen. James Alesi, a Republican, down on the floor and spat in the face of his chief of staff, according to reports.

How can you tell when somebody almost spits in somebody's face?

Cheryl| 6.12.09 @ 7:44PM

ACORN/David Letterman/Matt Lauer/Perez Hilton/CBS Media/ABC Media/MSNBC Media/and the rest of the Liberals are a disgrace to call Americans. 2010 BABY!!!!!!!!! Vote for CHANGE!!!!!!!

politicaldookie| 6.12.09 @ 8:12PM

Peaceful Obama supporters...

Missy| 6.12.09 @ 9:05PM

It didn't say 'almost spat in the face'.

Matthew Vadum| 6.12.09 @ 9:19PM

@ V Fitzpatrick

Right, Missy. Another longer AP story repeats the spitting incident:
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--nysenatecoup0611jun11,0,5274230.story

"Republican Sen. James Alesi of Monroe County said he fell to one knee because of the crush of the crowd and said his top staffer was spat upon."

DON Corleone| 6.12.09 @ 10:40PM

Vadum...you seriously missed your calling. You need to be on the comedy channel, this stuff is too funny! Anyone who believes the unfounded crap is just sad. "Spitting" incidents...nice reports, where's the real proof?
Quit the fear mongering, it's not very becoming, even of someone with as little integrity as you.

CC Ryder| 6.12.09 @ 10:48PM

Matt, more LIBERAL TOLERANCE on display by the DON on behalf of all fascist liberals everywhere.

Scum sucking pieces of human garbage. Boot all your @sses out in 2010!!

Matthew Vadum| 6.12.09 @ 11:25PM

DON Corleone: This is based on Associated Press reports. Are you saying they're lying? Or are you saying spitting on someone doesn't count as assault?
And you are right about me missing my calling: I should have been a history or a poli.sci. prof -- that way I could've routinely humiliated superficial morons like you in front of an audience.

Fionnagh| 6.12.09 @ 11:50PM

LOL, Don - sometimes I come here just to laugh out loud over the moronic troll comments. So glad you didn't disappoint! You probably think the scene on link attached here is also "unfounded crap...." Actually, what IS "crap" is the fact that the charges were dropped...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94b78rnWMP4

Missy| 6.13.09 @ 12:18AM

Matt--lol!

Michael| 6.13.09 @ 12:20AM

Hmmm... Don? To use the phraseology so popular with the kids these days... pwned. Big time. :D And Matthew? I AM a history teacher, so I do have the power to humiliate the clueless in front of an audience... but with great power comes great responsibility. ;)

Will| 6.13.09 @ 2:29AM

But, But, I thought ACORN were non - partisan!....LOL!

Sara| 6.13.09 @ 10:36AM

I take it this mob was arrested and charged with assualt on an elected official and his staff?

We had best get ready. The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise. They do not beleive in elections and the rule of law is not one of their "progressive" values.

Oldefarte| 6.13.09 @ 1:28PM

HOW CAN YOU TELL?-----the same GD way you can tell when homosexual perverted thugs enter a Mormon church and throw urine and excrement onto its congregants, all over their suspicion of Mormon involvment in the California Prop 8 vote, DUMMIE; REAL PROOF----read the GD news, idiot! [How can you tell when somebody almost spits in somebody's face? Vadum...you seriously missed your calling. You need to be on the comedy channel, this stuff is too funny! Anyone who believes the unfounded crap is justsad. "Spitting" incidents...nice reports, where's the real proof?Quit the fear mongering, it's not very becoming, even of someone with as little integrity as you]

Marc Jeric| 6.13.09 @ 2:41PM

ACORN brownshirts are paid to demonstrate - they have $9 billion in the Abu Hussein's stimulus bill to do exactly that. Our Community Organizer-in-Chief knows well what he is doing; in the defunct USSR (thanks, RR) that word "soviet" translates roughly as "community organization".

Don Corleone| 6.13.09 @ 3:05PM

First off Mastervadum (say it very fast), you don't have enough wit to ever come close to insulting a moron like me. 2, I find it hysterical that someone who repeatedly distorts history once aspired to teach it. 3, if some of you all got more action in the bed, maybe you wouldn't be spending your miserable lives arguing w/ people like me or blogging on a site 20 people read. Good luck!

Don Corleone| 6.13.09 @ 3:06PM

First off Master-vadum (say it very fast), you don't have enough wit to ever come close to insulting a moron like me. 2, I find it hysterical that someone who repeatedly distorts history once aspired to teach it. 3, if some of you all got more action in the bed, maybe you wouldn't be spending your miserable lives arguing w/ people like me or blogging on a site 20 people read. Good luck!

Don Corleone| 6.13.09 @ 3:06PM

First off Master vadum (say it very fast), you don't have enough wit to ever come close to insulting a moron like me. 2, I find it hysterical that someone who repeatedly distorts history once aspired to teach it. 3, if some of you all got more action in the bed, maybe you wouldn't be spending your miserable lives arguing w/ people like me or blogging on a site 20 people read. Good luck!

Don Corleone| 6.13.09 @ 3:07PM

First off Matty, you don't have enough wit to ever come close to insulting a moron like me. 2, I find it hysterical that someone who repeatedly distorts history once aspired to teach it. 3, if some of you all got more action in the bed, maybe you wouldn't be spending your miserable lives arguing w/ people like me or blogging on a site 20 people read. Good luck!

Regan's Ghost| 6.13.09 @ 3:10PM

The truth has to come out folks. Not only are these people stealing elections, they are reportedly working with underground gay radical groups to force children to wear dresses at public schools.

I think we should institute public hangings again and make these bastards pay. I'm glad that people like Matt Vadum are around to give us the strength and blueprint for violently repelling these social maggots.

CC Ryder| 6.13.09 @ 4:52PM

Only a loser posts the same idiocy 4 times.

Impotent troll.

Don Corleone| 6.13.09 @ 5:18PM

I'm sorry

Don Corleone| 6.13.09 @ 5:18PM

I'm sorry

Don Corleone| 6.13.09 @ 5:18PM

Just in case I wasn't smart enough to remember...i'm sorry

Don Corleone| 6.13.09 @ 5:19PM

But really...i'm sorry

Don Corleone| 6.13.09 @ 5:19PM

I mean it this time...i'm sorry

Don Corleone| 6.13.09 @ 5:19PM

Sorry

Don Corleone| 6.13.09 @ 5:20PM

Sorry man

Smitty| 6.13.09 @ 5:56PM

If you meant it you'd leave. Go clean your room in your mommy's basement. Bonehead.

Bill R| 6.13.09 @ 8:07PM

Better Tabs need to be kept on these guys. Unlike the left we don't politicize every damn incident. Unfortunately that needs to change. From WSJ:

Mr. Marks's nonprofit organization, Neighborhood Assistance Corp. of America, has emerged as one of the loudest scourges of the banking industry in the post-bubble economy. It salts its Web site with photos of executives it accuses of standing in the way of helping homeowners -- emblazoning "Predator" across their photos, picturing their homes and sometimes including home phone numbers. In February, NACA, as it's called, protested at the home of a mortgage investor by scattering furniture on his lawn, to give him a taste of what it feels like to be evicted.

In the 1990s, Mr. Marks leaked details of a banker's divorce to the press and organized a protest at the school of another banker's child. He says he would use such tactics again. "We have to terrorize these bankers," Mr. Marks says.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124276441945635993.html

Basil Plumley| 6.13.09 @ 8:59PM

Don Corleone,

You got one thing right ............. you are a sorry man.
You are too stupid to realize it was Barzini all along.

Jeannine Huskey| 6.19.09 @ 3:22PM

When we hear about these atrocities, instead of punching jabs through our computer screens....we need to....we HAVE TO....hit the streets in front of EVERY ACORN OFFICE IN THE COUNTRY!!! Will you do it?!!! Let's start TODAY, people!!

frank l kinney| 6.22.09 @ 10:06AM

angry ACORN mob attacks! acorn gang? LA RAZA" members? OR the obama 250,000 stimulus tax paid volunteers club? john CONyers husband of MONICA bad dog CONyers councilblackwoman represenative of detroit city council with thousands of dollars in pawn shop ZEIDMAN'S JEWelry and loan of 40,000 dollars ? this guy urged the detroit city council to ease up on plans to increase regulation of his business? monica and john CONyers another planned team of parenthoods in congress? john CONyers his ask not in investigate ACORN by our jewish new york CONgressman NADLER after john CONyears publicly stated they should be investigated? now the question of this organization being funded by our own goverment? our own goverment trys to STOP investigation too? like the firing of inspector general for uncovering wrong doing too? than another story is al sharpton defending the illegal invaders rights from racial profiling garbage? sharton the GREAT GREAT GREATIST CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER FOR THE ILLEGAL INTRUDERS! civil rights? three blacks killed execution style by illegal immigrant who was let out on bail for child rape? HELLO! civil rights denied thoughts al SLIM NOWsharpton WOW? i guess he didn't like bubbles? but AL SHARKSKIN is more like it! corruption michigan detroit their public schools that 3 of 4 don't graduate and broke too? chicago acorn and corruption twin model of detroit and other states across the U.S.? PORK benefits tax dollars that create WHAT? bigger corruption paid syndicates accross 270 acorn jewish controled organizations? funny ever seem to see a jew lose his or hers congressional goverment seat? like say lieberman? funny how that repbubliCON GRAHAM amnesty kennedy supporter WON his seat back? repbulicans voted a vietnamese in congressional office too O'RIELLY? RUSH? HANITY? BECK? FOX REPBULCONS SUPPORTERS no speakie english? FOX ABC PROMOTERS TOO? SOAP OPERA the PALIN PUSH repbubliCON ALERT CANDIDATE FUTURE? USS MCcAIN TO THE RESCUE again a candidate future promotion bit? news acorn media soap opera of the tennis match between demoCRAP and republiCON politics of propaganda that play on U.S.? results we lose and they twin team work wins president again like 08 and acorn? thrid party is where we win period enough is enough you think? when these two joint parties stop whistleblowers or fine men and women to expose corruption like acorn civil rights thats pretty sad indeed! NO TRANSPARENCY with our tax payers money in the hundreds of billions of dollars WOW! protect fraud voter fraud? no cap on oil congress too talk? same amount under bush and you's called for oil cap? independent from foreign fuel obama? new energy future? coal? not natural gas future? BS! thrid party is the only answer american legion for USA and law and order way! tired just tired of the soap opera of never a conclusion or resolve on anything period except more taxes. INDEPENDENT truth justice and the american legion lou dobbs USA way! you know kate smith way" god bless america my home sweet home protection!AMEN.

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