Tea Party Candidate Tells 911 Campaign Operative Is 'Stalking' Him

[DonViejo]

DANIEL STRAUSS – DECEMBER 9, 2013, 5:57 PM EST

A congressional tea party candidate called 911 on a tracker who had been following him on Monday.

The candidate, tea partier Art Halvorsen, called 911 on the video tracker who had been following him as he went to a meeting with reporters on Monday, according to Politico.

Halvorsen, who is running for Rep. Bill Shuster's (R-PA) seat, told the 911 dispatcher that the tracker was "stalking" him in the lobby of Politico's building. The tracker left after roughly ten minutes while Shuster was waiting for the police to come. The tracker, according to Politico, said he had gotten all the video footage he needed.

"Stalking — the definition is if you tell somebody that you’re uncomfortable, that you don’t want them to do it, they’re supposed to stop. That’s the rules we apply in the military with respect to harassment," Halvorsen told Politico.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/tea-party-candidate-calls-911-on-video-tracker

[niyad]

1. no, you moran, that is NOT the definition of stalking in PA, this is:

§ 2709.1. Stalking.
(a) Offense defined.--A person commits the crime of stalking
when the person either:
(1) engages in a course of conduct or repeatedly commits
acts toward another person, including following the person
without proper authority, under circumstances which
demonstrate either an intent to place such other person in
reasonable fear of bodily injury or to cause substantial
emotional distress to such other person; or
(2) engages in a course of conduct or repeatedly
communicates to another person under circumstances which
demonstrate or communicate either an intent to place such
other person in reasonable fear of bodily injury or to cause
substantial emotional distress to such other person.
(b) Venue.--
(1) An offense committed under this section may be
deemed to have been committed at either the place at which
the communication or communications were made or at the place
where the communication or communications were received.
(2) Acts indicating a course of conduct which occur in
more than one jurisdiction may be used by any other
jurisdiction in which an act occurred as evidence of a
continuing pattern of conduct or a course of conduct.

. . .

http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/CT/HTM/18/00.027.009.001..HTM

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. You don't understand ...

the tracker's conduct was, indeed, intended to:

(1) engages in a course of conduct or repeatedly commits
acts toward another person, including following the person
without proper authority, under circumstances which
demonstrate either an intent to place such other person in
reasonable fear of bodily injury or to cause substantial
emotional distress to such other person;

by getting this guys lies, er ... comments, on video/tape. We can't have that .... politicians should be free to tell his constituents whatever lies, er ... positions, they want to hear, outside the prying eyes/ears of those that do not already support said candidate and want to know what said candidate says/said.

[yellowcanine]

3. Videotaping an announced candidate as he meets with reporters is stalking?

heat...kitchens....etc.