Arizona Lawmaker Calls Police on Constituents Offering Cookies, Says They Were Violent

[Judi Lynn]

Source: HeatStreet

Arizona Lawmaker Calls Police on Constituents Offering Cookies, Says They Were Violent
By Ian Miles Cheong | 9:11 pm, June 12, 2017

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A group of constituents showed up for a meeting with Arizona congressman Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) bearing cookies — in an act of friendliness, they say. The constituents dubbing themselves “Indivisible” showed up outside his office in Scottsdale hoping for some of his time to listen to their concerns. Schweikert responded by calling the police on them.

The lawmaker is taking it even further in a fundraising campaign letter he sent out to his supporters. He wrote: “The left is determined to disrupt and disorganize. They are organizing new groups every single day and investing big resources neighborhood-to-neighborhood across Maricopa County.”

In the letter, he cited the name of the group that brought him the cookies as one of the “far left groups determined to inflict the kind of violence that we have seen before.”

He described the cookie-carrying protesters as people who will “stop at no turn,” claiming that they “clash with police,” “incite violence” and “light cars on fire.” Schweikert’s description of the groups as violent sparked a quick response from some of the groups, who described his letter as slanderous and libelous. Stronger Together AZ said the letter could put their members in danger.

Read more: https://heatst.com/politics/arizona-lawmaker-calls-police-on-constituents-offering-cookies-says-they-were-violent/

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Rep. David Schweikert

[msongs]

1. pity the infant in that picture nt

[Lunabell]

2. Someone had to film it.

Prove they were violent.

[LeftInTX]

5. Here is a short video from May 10th

Link to tweet

[QC]

3. Those cookies might have had raisins!!! n/t

[LeftInTX]

4. A-Hole...

http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2017/06/12/schweikert-begs-campaign-cash-fend-off-protesters-bearing-cookies/388304001/

[SCVDem]

6. Release the police report!

The responding officers had to make a report and describe the 'offenders'.

How violent were they? Disruptive? Did they at least resist arrest? Did an officer accept a cookie?

NO?

Have a talk with Schweikert for filing a false report.

[Astraea]

7. yet another rethuglican having a problem with democracy

"They are organizing new groups every single day and investing big resources neighborhood-to-neighborhood across Maricopa County"

[malthaussen]

17. Not only that -- I shudder to say --

-- there are rumors that these threats to society actually VOTE!!!!

-- Mal

[Doug the Dem]

8. I was Mugged by a Cookie in L.A.

It was 8 years ago. It was an oatmeal raisen that lured me into an alley with its fresh-baked aroma and then attacked me. It took my money, my clothes, my shoes, everything. I still wake up in a cold sweat some nights!

[Initech]

10. Was it the Cookie Monster?

[Doug the Dem]

16. No! It was the Cookie Itself!

AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

[Initech]

9. What do you expect from the county that kept electing Sheriff Joe all those years? Compassion?

[miyazaki]

11. "Peace Fresno" has a chapter in Arizona?

[sakabatou]

12. Seriously?!

WTF?!

[not fooled]

13. Freedumb reigns

in "Error-zona"

The pukes who've had a stranglehold on much of the state see the inevitable blue demographics and are sh*tting themselves trying to maintain control.

Oh, and guess which state ranked dead last in electoral integrity? Yep, Error-Z.

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/12/24/14074762/electoral-integrity-states-gerrymandering-voter-id

[Vinca]

14. Stand your ground, Congressman, stand your ground.

You never know what a demon chocolate chip might do.

[blaze]

15. He succeeded in creating some sound bites for faux news nt