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Union Goon Attacks Tea Party Protester at Sacramento Labor Rally

Written By : Jane Jamison

Nationwide union rallies to support Wisconsin’s striking teachers, organized by MoveOn.org, have fallen far short of predictions, though the “mainstream media” “take” on the day is that it was a smashing success for Big Labor. Let’s walk back that part about “smashing:”

Tea Party member assaulted by union thug in Sacramento

In Sacramento, a mob of union goonians suddenly surged from their own protest area towards a Tea party crowd. A Tea Party activist was assaulted and injured by a Teamster who had been yelling on a bullhorn.

Chuck DeVore for Big Government:

Sacramento’s ABC News 10 reported on the union rally and Tea Party counter rally in Sacramento today. ABC’s online report makes cursory mention of an incident of union violence directed at Tea Party activist Rodney Stanhope: “Police cited one man for battery after he allegedly shoved a tea party supporter.”

I spoke to Stanhope, as he drove to the hospital for x-rays and treatment for the injuries sustained at the rally, and asked him what happened. Mr. Stanhope said that he was with a group of about 150 Tea Party activists across the street from the MoveOn.org-organized union rally. A union man with a bullhorn, Richard Andazola, 28, was yelling across the street at the Tea Party activists, calling them “fascists.”

Then one of the Tea Party activists, also bullhorn equipped, replied, “We pay your salary!”

This enraged Andazola, who, according to Stanhope, rushed the Tea Partiers, chanting “Fascists go home! Fascists go home!” He violently shoved Stanhope twice, the second time apparently striking Stanhope in the throat.

The thug in the video, is 28-year-old Richard Andazola is described in this recent article as a shop steward from Safeway. His jacket in this video says he is from Teamsters Local 439, Stockton.

A week of violence, obscenities, and Nazi/Hitler/Mubarak references ignored by mainstream media

[ It is no surprise that the local media downplayed the event. The major networks and newspapers ignored last week’s violence: A TV cameraman was told “I will F+++ you in the A++, you Fa+++t,” Marty Lamb being shoved to the ground in Boston; a black, gay Tea Party activist taunted with racist, homophobic remarks in Denver, a FreedomWorks employee smacked in the face in Washington D.C., a Jewish Tea Party protester called a “Bad Jew” and so on.] [See links below for coverage]

Washington, D.C. union thugs have a child carry a sign w/ obscenity

Gabriel at Ace of Spades, along with @mamaswati, @alwaysonoffense, and @mattdeluca file this report full of bizarre labor union posters from the Washington D.C. rally…including this photo of a CHILD carrying a sign that refers to TEABAGGERS.

Photo by Gabriel Malor at Ace of Spades

[In case you need a refresher on the meaning of “teabagger,” and why it is inappropriate if not child abuse to subject a child to this kind of pornography, go HERE.]

In Boston, the labor knockheads were demonizing the “billionaire” Republican Koch brothers as being the same as Hosni Mubarak and Muammar Gaddafi, but they conveniently left out any reference to the lefty billionaires like George Soros, Bill Gates, and the Google boys.

Union turnout around the country is far under expectations

For example, David Dayen of the lefty website FireDogLake predicted a MILLION would stand for the unions nationwide, and claims Saturday, 100,000 showed up in Madison, Wisconsin for yet another rally to support striking teachers.

Professor Bill Jacobson of Legal Insurrection has been reviewing coverage from around the country and finds the mainstream media are GREATLY exaggerating crowd sizes and DOWNPLAYING the union attacks on the Tea Party counter-protesters.

The turnout in Madison was sizable, with estimates ranging from 50-70,000, which included protesters bused in from other states. (Dayen is trying to pump the crowd estimate to over 100,000.) But elsewhere, the crowds numbered only in the hundreds or low thousands.

In Washington, D.C., only about 500 people showed up (go to link for good photos of crazy signs). (Note, WaPo says 1000.)

In Columbus, OH, where you would expect a big crowd given a similar controversy, only “several thousand” people protested.

Other head counts, based on news reports, include: Boston (1000), Portsmouth, N.H. (few hundred), Augusta, ME (small crowd), New York City (“several thousand“), Chicago (1000), Miami (100), Austin (several hundred), Chicago (1000); Lansing, MI (2000), Nashville (hundreds), Los Angeles (2000), Richmond, VA (300), Denver (1000); Frankfurt, KY (several hundred), Jefferson City, MO (several hundred), Harrisburg, PA (several hundred).

While I don’t have a complete count, based on these numbers from some major cities and labor states, total protesters nationwide (excluding Madison) likely totaled under 100,000 combined.

So the big labor unions have spent a week bullying, and assaulting Tea Party members, using foul language, posters with obscenities and Nazi/Hitler/Mubarak references and the media ignore it. They “over”-focus and inflate the union message. So what else is new? Pass the butter.

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Union Goon to Cameraman: “I will f+++ you in the a++, you faggot!”

Anonymous

I’ll admit, I wrote this on another blog, but I am finding the behavior of these unions to be awfully similar to gang behavior.

Soldout

Gang behavior? In what way?

Anonymous

They walk in, make a demand, and then start threatening anyone standing up to them.

Anything else confusing you?

http://twitter.com/RockingJamboree RockingJamboree

[ It is no surprise that the local media downplayed the event. The major networks and newspapers ignored last week’s violence: A TV cameraman was told “I will F+++ you in the A++, you Fa+++t,” Marty Lamb being shoved to the ground in Boston; a black, gay Tea Party activist taunted with racist, homophobic remarks in Denver, a FreedomWorks employee smacked in the face in Washington D.C., a Jewish Tea Party protester called a “Bad Jew” and so on.]

Did Tabitha Hale send you the same list of videos she sent me? I got the same list of videos, in the same order! It’s seems you’re repeating her talking points or she’s repeating yours. Or did these talking points come to both you and Tabitha from someone with more authority? There seems to be some key talking points that someone has put on the agenda here. I’m just wondering, who’s setting the agenda? Who is lining up the talking points.

And dude, if the word “Teabag” is pornographic, why are you showing a child holding that sign? What did that child ever do to you? If you think it’s wrong for a parent to send their kid out with that sign, aren’t you just compounding the problem by publishing that photo? Couldn’t you just report about that sign without actually publishing a picture of the child? Or, if you think it’s damaging to the child, shouldn’t you at least block out the child’s face? You should protect the innocent! What kind of horrible man are you!
http://twitter.com/RockingJamboree RockingJamboree

[ It is no surprise that the local media downplayed the event. The major networks and newspapers ignored last week’s violence: A TV cameraman was told “I will F+++ you in the A++, you Fa+++t,” Marty Lamb being shoved to the ground in Boston; a black, gay Tea Party activist taunted with racist, homophobic remarks in Denver, a FreedomWorks employee smacked in the face in Washington D.C., a Jewish Tea Party protester called a “Bad Jew” and so on.]

Did Tabitha Hale send you the same list of videos she sent me? I got the same list of videos, in the same order! It’s seems you’re repeating her talking points or she’s repeating yours. Or did these talking points come to both you and Tabitha from someone with more authority? There seems to be some key talking points that someone has put on the agenda here. I’m just wondering, who’s setting the agenda? Who is lining up the talking points.

And dude, if the word “Teabag” is pornographic, why are you showing a child holding that sign? What did that child ever do to you? If you think it’s wrong for a parent to send their kid out with that sign, aren’t you just compounding the problem by publishing that photo? Couldn’t you just report about that sign without actually publishing a picture of the child? Or, if you think it’s damaging to the child, shouldn’t you at least block out the child’s face? You should protect the innocent! What kind of horrible man are you!

Toastrider

Argh, you caught me! I’m organizing it all from my space station in geosynchronous orbit. Soon my master plan will come to fruition…

Or alternately, it could be that unionistas have a common pattern of displaying violence in the face of opposition. I love how you try to reduce a clear pattern of bad behavior to ‘talking points’.
http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

That word is pornographic, deal with it.

Soldout

Only if you think of it that way, in the same way you could interpret domeone saying “that blows” or “you blew it.”

At the first TP rallies, participants had tea bags attached to their clothing and called themselves tea baggers, so we’ll always define them as such. Get over it.

Soldout

It’s clear from the video that the guy in Sacaramento wasn’t attacked, he was shoved. An attack would see him on the ground with people around him kicking him or some such.

We don’t get to hear WHY he was shoved, just like we don’t get to hear why the dude was called a bad Jew in the other video.

Context is everything.

These same incidents are making the rounds at right wing web sites. There were 100k people in Madison yesterday, the biggest rally since the anti-Vietnam fiasco rallies and bigger than any TP rally, and other rallies around the country.

This is all you have? A few extremely isolated incidents?

And as for the mainstream news…if it was liberal as you like to claim, one would think it would have reporters covering these true grass roots events, perhaps in the way Faux hyped the astro-turf Dick Armey supported TP events.

But the mainstream corporate controlled conservative media is not liberal even if some of the reporters are, at least not in the same way Faux has supported conservative causes, to the extent that Faux has told a court of law that it has no obligation to tell the truth.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YWXM6Q6QGELGTT334IQMWB774Q David

He wasn’t attacked, he was just shoved. Yes, I can see the difference.

http://www.wordaroundthenet.com Christopher Taylor

It as a non violent, loving shove of compassion!

Soldout

Let’s say the guy said something like “you’re mother’s a whore,” and in such a case a good hard “get outta here” shove would be in order.

I watched most of the 11 minute vid where the guy tells the camerman where to put the camera. Again we are denied the sequence of events leading up to the confrontation.

Anonymous

No it wouldn’t that would still be assault.
Anonymous

How far are you willing to go to defend violent thuggish behavior?
Douglas W. Rodrigues

Nobody is defending the thug behavior, but nobody was hurt. Considering the Neanderthal attitudes demonstrated by the thuggish behavior, it’s probable that if we say calm and simply talk loudly instead of yell like the thugs do, we would appear to be the people with the brains who think logically and the thugs would look like that idiots that they are. That would make good news copy, IF you can get any of the left-wing media to question and video any TEA Party attendees. Just food for thought………..
Douglas W. Rodrigues

Nobody is defending the thuggish behavior, but that shoving didn’t hurt anyone. It did make the person doing the shoving look like a jerk. What’s wrong with that? We should always keep such videos available for future use, especially when the major “News” media claims that TEA Party attendees are being aggressive, insulting, or “racist.” Actually, the more the Union people function like jerks, the better. Why? Because the Unions only make up approximately 15% of the work force. The approximate 85% of workers non-Union will see these videos and not want any part of it!
Douglas W. Rodrigues

Sorry, I didn’t mean to post twice. I was trying to edit the first one but apparently that’s impossible.
Douglas W. Rodrigues

Sorry, I didn’t mean to post twice. I was trying to edit the first one but apparently that’s impossible.
Anonymous

Were the situation reversed you’d be screaming “fascism!” at the top of your lungs. Of course you’d be drowned out by the media and every liberal in the country doing the exact same thing.

But since it’s one of yours ‘meh, it’s not assault-assault’.

Anonymous

Just like Roman Polanski didn’t really rape that girl.

Anonymous

well it wasn’t rape rape. this clearly wasn’t assault assault.

Anonymous

“It’s clear from the video that the guy in Sacaramento wasn’t attacked, he was shoved.” ~ Soldout

Unless you can prove you were attempting to shove someone out of the way of something that was about to hit them a shove constitutes an assault under EVER states codified laws. That means it is an attack.

“We don’t get to hear WHY he was shoved,” ~ Soldout

Doesn’t matter. The person that takes the step from words to actions is always the one in the wrong according to law.

“Context is everything.” ~ Soldout

Yes, yes it is. Which is why you are working so hard to ignore what context it presented.

“There were 100k people in Madison yesterday,” ~ Soldout

Please post a link that backs this claim. You know like you were demanding of others in another post.

“This is all you have? A few extremely isolated incidents?” ~ Soldout

Why is it that there are more “extremely isolated incidents” surrounding Liberal and Union “rallies” than Conservative and Tea Party rallies? Why is it always easy to find video and pictures from liberal “rallies” showing racial slurs and threats against others? Why is it that the term “riot” seems to fit more liberal rallies than conservative ones?

“And as for the mainstream news…if it was liberal as you like to claim, one would think it would have reporters covering these true grass roots events, perhaps in the way Faux hyped the astro-turf Dick Armey supported TP events.” ~ Soldout

Yah, cause the MSM was so supportive of the Tea Party events last year. Deriding attendees as racist, idiots, and uneducated rubes.
Yet most of what I’ve seen from the MSM over the last couple days is supportive of the union organizers.

“these true grass roots events” ~ Soldout

Oh, yah, cause when I think “grass roots” I think of Union organized events with attendees that have been shipped in and in some cases are being paid to attend, in matching shirts and carrying professional signs, no less.

“But the mainstream corporate controlled conservative media is not liberal even if some of the reporters are,” ~ Soldout

Just how far up your rear do you have your head wedged?

“at least not in the same way Faux has supported conservative causes,” ~ Soldout

A: False

B: Another liberal claiming to support freedom and equality that has a problem when private individuals and corporations make decisions they disagree with. Color me surprised.

“to the extent that Faux has told a court of law that it has no obligation to tell the truth.” ~ Soldout

And again, as this is a serious charge please post links supporting this accusation.
Anonymous

“It’s clear from the video that the guy in Sacaramento wasn’t attacked, he was shoved. An attack would see him on the ground with people around him kicking him or some such.”

No no, he was attacked ironically.

It was satire people!

Soldout

“Nationwide union rallies to support Wisconsin’s striking teachers, organized by MoveOn.org, have fallen far short of predictions”

Proof?

“though the “mainstream media” “take” on the day is that it was a smashing success for Big Labor.”

Proof?

I’ll bet the mainstream media you call liberal devoted a fraction of time to these nationwide events as it devoted to the TP events.

Just look at the Sunday talkies – a huge week for labor but you wouldn’t know it for all the usual republican conservatives on these shows.

On the left wing sites I read, these sorts of statements are linked to pages that validate the point presented. I noticed this is rarely if ever the case here, which renders the claims here as moot.

Anonymous

“On the left wing sites I read, these sorts of statements are linked to pages that validate the point presented.”

Umm, yah.

That’d be all those annoying blue words in the middle of the traditional black on white print format.

How’s that knee taste?

Soldout

I see where you define how from your perspective the turnout fell short of expectations. it’s funny how liberal causes always will fall short from tour perspective, where TP events always exceed expectations.

Nothing like a little subjectivity with my Denver scramble.
Douglas W. Rodrigues

I’m a hard core Conservative, but I will say this, a couple of shoves don’t make an “attack.” It does make the person doing the shoving look like a jerk, but from what the video shows, a District Attorney wouldn’t even bother with prosecuting this. Nobody was hurt. Perhaps more shoving from the jerks is exactly what should be documented in videos for future use when the other side cries and lies about how bad and nasty the TEA Party people are. We can show who the bad people really are.
Anonymous

If you notice, this guy wasn’t pushing anyone around till he saw a camera…then walked right over in front of it and started his pushing….sissy like…LOL Probably 75 % of these thugs aren’t there to help out. They are there thinking they will be on TV. Just like children.
Anonymous

Speaking of VIOLENT thugish, Brown Shirted violence, how do you like the Paul supporter stepping on the head of a little woman who wasn’t one of the slavish supporters of the far right wing? Of course I know this behavior is condoned by FoxPac and their supporters as a true american striking down a communist or maybe a terrorist sympathizer.

Check out http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20020717-503544.html

Very nice behavior from a goon and thug on the official staff of Paul.

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