Brad on KPFK: Nicole Sandler on Her Arrest, Overnight Detention, Macing after Allen West Town Hall

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Brad on KPFK: Radio Host Nicole Sandler on Her Arrest, Overnight Detention, Macing after GOP Rep. Allen West's Town Hall Last Night in FL
Also: Quick WI Supreme Court election 'recount' update...

On my KPFK show (L.A.'s Pacifica Radio affiliate) today, I was joined by RadioOrNot.com's Nicole Sandler, fresh after her release from the Broward County, FL Jail earlier today. (http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8494) She was asked to leave the meeting after asking questions about the GOP's attempts to end welfare as we know it.

Nicole, who hosts her own progressive talk radio show and is the regular fill-in guest host for Randi Rhodes, was held overnight (several hours of it in solitary confinement, during which she was maced by guards), after her arrest at a Fort Lauderdale town hall event held last night by freshman "Tea Party" Republican Rep. Allen West (FL-22). Though she is a constituent of the insane Congressman, she was not allowed to ask questions, as West decided last night that he would only take pre-selected written questions. That, after town hall events have been turning into embarrassments for the GOP over the past week as they've faced questions from constituents angry about their recent vote to make drastic changes to Medicare by replacing the popular single-payer health care system with a voucher program.

We covered the whole sordid affair earlier this morning in detail, including videos of the arrest, etc., as Nicole, my friend and colleague, was unreachable (still in jail) and her wherabouts were still unknown…

AUDIO, FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8497


Read more: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8497

[freshwest]

1. Thanks for the news here and your great blog. Isn't this the same place the cops knocked a paralyzed

Man out of a wheelchair? Don't sound very reliable to me.

[Merlot]

2. She called Rhandi Rhodes today - it was pretty scary

She was maced while in the jail cell. for asking questions.

[Zorra]

6. Things like that happen more than they should in the south.

A cop ordered my partner and I to leave Forrest City, Ark. in 1978, for absolutely no reason at all except: "No buts, we don't like your kind around here" (an actual verbatim quote) I won't go into it, but I'm very sure my partner and I would have been jailed and hurt if we did not comply.

[EFerrari]

7. Things like that happen all over the country. n/t

[SoapBox]

3. And as I've said over and over today...This is what the RushThugs and T.HaterBaggers

will do to those that cross them. Serious!

First...Nicole's site:

http://radioornot.com/site/?p=4656

Second...the outrageous tweet from Crazy West:

Allen West
"These town hall hecklers will continue to be removed if they try and cause problems. They can try all they want- they will lose every time"

...see what I'm say'n! The Thugs will either have you arrested...or they will head off to the Cheney Bunker and issue some statement, sounding like they held a meeting for the public.

VOTE OUT these Terrorists.

[davidwparker]

4. Nicole needs to run against him at the next election. n/t

[nbcouch]

5. Let's not call this a "town hall meeting," okay?

Obviously it was not. It was a staged media event, a piece of promotional theater - a fraud, in other words, created to give the appearance of accountability while actually avoiding it.

This is Police State. This is fascism.

[xxqqqzme]

8. She was on both Thom Hartmann and

Randi Rhodes today. Frightening. West is a dangerous idiot.