The "Artful Dodger" strikes again. Jeanne Shaheen and her human campaign shields...
In what is an interesting story, given their oft-stated claims to the contrary, these videos demonstrate that the Democrats aren't "holier than thou" when it comes to the filming of their candidates at meetings. Recall that Republicans have received flak on more than one occasion for seeking to ban members of the opposition party from meetings, including one occasion right here in our own neck of the woods. As reported by the Citizen newspaper back in May:
State Democratic Party leaders are expressing anger that one of their "trackers" was kicked out of Wednesday's Belknap County Republicans' meeting despite the fact that it was used as a campaign stop for two congressional candidates.
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Buckley said he believes the incident speaks volumes about the attitude of Republican Party leaders.
"I'm curious as to what these candidates have to hide. Either a meeting is public or it's not. If you want to have a closed meeting, have a closed meeting ... they can't have it both ways," said Buckley, noting that established media were welcome to attend.
If you read the whole story to the end, you would have discovered that, GASP, I am in agreement with Buckley in that when it comes to candidate appearances, everyone should be able to attend and videotape and even in some cases ask questions. Well, unfortunately, as we find all too often with certain Democrats, what's good for the goose ain't good for the gander. Check out the treatment of the videographer at a recent Jeanne Shaheen campaign event. Can you imagine if John Sununu was to dispatch staffers in thug-like fashion anytime, anywhere? I think not...
And then there's the candidate herself. In a million years, could you imagine Senator Sununu calling someone out as Shaheen does in this next video? What about the Buckley admonishment of the GOP as noted above? Yeah, right. We're talkin' 'bout Jeanne Shaheen here. Nothing much happens off-script. What, you think she's a woman of the people? Please! Following all that, after pointing her finger at the offending videotaper a-la the Wicked Witch of the West, it appears he's about to be taken away. For what? The question actually sounded reasonable-- much like the same one she's been dodging for quite some time now...
Would she be as "approachable" as our Senator? Can we take that chance? Yikes!
To trackers: "I'll get you my pretties...Hahahahaha"
