Calling Mr. Bette Lasky! You have a steal-a-like twin - stealing Campaign signs! - Granite Grok

Calling Mr. Bette Lasky! You have a steal-a-like twin – stealing Campaign signs!

Democrat Elliot Lasky Stealing Campaign SignsOr, that would be Dr. Elliot Lasky.  You know, the husband of current (at the time, former) NH State Senator Bette Lasky – the guy that was caught redhanded pulling up Republican campaign signs (Steve had the news here, here, and here)?

Well, he has a counterpart in Delaware – except there, the police are actually following the law and are trying to arrest his butt:

Police in Middletown, Delaware, issued an arrest warrant for the husband of state Sen. Bethany Hall-Long on Wednesday after he was caught on video allegedly stealing campaign signs put up by Republicans.  The suspect, identified as Dana Armon Long, has been charged with a Class A misdemeanor for theft under $1,500. He faces up to one year in prison and a fine of up to $2,300.

On Wednesday, Republican campaign volunteers reportedly set up a camera at the location in Middletown where dozens of their political signs kept disappearing. Some of the signs apparently read, “Fix the Economy! Vote Republican.”

“We got you, brother! We got the license plate, your face, and everything,” one of the volunteers says in the video.

Hall-Long confirmed that the man caught on video stealing the signs is her husband. She released the following statement on Wednesdsay:

“My husband is the man depicted in the video. The video shows him removing a handful of signs this morning. He turned them over to the Democratic Party and asked that they be returned to the Republican Party about six hours after they were taken up,” she said. “Sadly, this race has become tough and personal. My husband is my high school sweetheart and he loves me very much. I was not aware that he had allowed his frustration over the campaign attacks to get the better of him. Of course I’m disappointed and wish that it had not happened.”

“Frustration” – that was Lasky’s excuse, too.  Whatsamatter with these Dems – they allow emotions to rule themselves?  No self-control?  And it is lovely that Mrs. Hall-Long expressed “disappointment” (but never disappointed enough to hang one’s head in shame and pull out of the race, right?). But hey, husband of connected pol in high places – what’s the chances of actually doing the time even though the evidence is clear?

But what’s all that about turning the signs into the DEMOCRAT Party – not even enough contriteness to bring them back to where they actually belong – the Republican Party?  Oh, silly me – they’ll certainly be returned – but what’s the over / under it will be after the polls close on Tuesday?  Wouldn’t the moral thing been to have returned the signs to the Party that actually PAID MONEY to create them?  Oh yeah, Democrats – when they want your property as theirs, its theirs.  For your purposes don’t matter.  Or your money.  Only theirs.

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