Idaho GOP Leader, Tea Party Organizer Arrested For Assault With A Deadly Weapon (a gun)
By Logan Murphy Friday Aug 21, 2009 6:00am
The Republican Party has a huge problem on their hands. They are quickly being taken over by the most extreme, paranoid, fringe elements in our society and this case is just another glaring example of the path they are on:
BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho Republican Party leader who helped oust the state GOP chairman in 2008 faces charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after an altercation escalated while he photographed a home with a delinquent mortgage.
Challis McAffee, 33, the GOP chairman from the Boise suburb of Garden City and one of 231 voting members of the Idaho Republican Central Committee, was in Ada County jail after being accused of pointing a gun at the homeowner.
McAffee, a backer of libertarian-leaning former GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul and an activist in this year's anti-big-government "Tea Party" protests, helped organize Paul backers who aligned at last June's Idaho State Republican Convention in Sandpoint with other foes of then-state GOP Chairman Kirk Sullivan. Sullivan was voted from office in favor of Norm Semanko.
According to police in the Boise suburb of Meridian, resident Robert Lutes called officers just before 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to report McAffee had pointed a .357 Magnum handgun at him during a verbal confrontation. McAffee acknowledged he pointed the gun at Lutes, according to the police account.
"I'm unarmed, I'm an old man," Lutes, 51, told The Associated Press on Thursday. "I'm trying to find out why he's taking pictures of my house. I said, 'Knock on my door, let me know what you want.' Then, I think he's reaching for his business card and he pulls out a concealed weapon and I think he's going to blow my head off." Read on...
A group calling itself Idahoans for Liberty is trying to raise bond money for McAffee, but their version doesn't line up with the police account.
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What a dick!
I hope they throw the book at this SOB.
..just like the woman from around here who was arrested with the AR-15 in the trunk of the car while she was trespassing and taking pictures of one beck's fema concentration camps (not).
somebody will start singing the Dukes of Hazzard theme song and that will be that.
In what might constitute the ultimate irony although not at all funny would've been if mcaffee would have pulled the gun and the "un-named" female involved in all of this would have opened up on mcaffee from within once he drew down on Lutes. Irony
WTF?
to the Idahoans for Liberty site, they just had a meeting to help raise bail for McAfee. 4 people attended. Big show of support.
That would be sad if it weren't so funny!
no welfare handouts (except to the rich)
:-P
Michelle Obamas shorts... why are they not booty shorts or hot pants...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090821/us_time...
(I wish I could say I am kidding... :-(
The First Lady, is a very classy, beautiful, and dare I say, sexy woman.
Barack and Michelle are a breath of fresh air, they are vibrant, smart and just cool. I don't think it matters what she does though they will continue to attempt to find fault with anything and everything.
They are a breath of fresh air for the white house...
my point is that the media will try making up anything petty instead of looking at:
gun toting maniacs at presidential events
or
just how bad is health care and why we pay more for less
I think most of this though is to distract those that are mesmerized by shiny objects from the real issues. If someone is so simple that they really care about Michelle's shorts then they probably won't be focusing on things like healthcare, wars, the economy, etc.
beat George and Stepford Wife anyday in my book.
... it is that it is headlined with a "... around the world" as if the rest of planet earth was offended by the USA having a first lady with great legs. This morning I was reading some on-line European rags (I gave up on American media to even pretend to provide any newsworthy information) and they had articles basically saying how much they did not give a f*ck, in fact they were praising Michelle's physique and sense of style.
WTF?
The GOP's current talking point accusing Obama for taking a week vacation almost made my hypocrisy-meter melt. This coming from the same collective which did not say as much as a peep when their president spent 40% of his time in office on vacation.
this will finally start the backlash needed to reel in these dangerous igits bringing loaded weapons to protests.
Not that I really expect it too :-(
the backlash has already begun.
On the upside, I think we have our first employee for the Obama Death Panels.
Clearly this is proof that those other clowns who bring guns to town hall meetings are never going to snap and do something idiotic.
Why do conservatives want to shoot your grandparents? Just goes to prove a point, conservative motivate, and are motivated by fear. Pointing a gun at someones grandfather because he wanted to know why your taking pictures of his home is the act of coward, and a criminal.
You need to put that on bumper stickers, t-shirts, coffee mugs, mouse-pads and caps and sell them suckers.
Excellent idea!!!
I'll buy a gross o' bumper stickers!
Kudos to you.
Do Idahoans just stake their old folks out near a bear den when they don't earn their keep? Have they no ice floes? Are there no death panels? No protein vats? As much as I deplore MacAffee's actions, I find his victim's attitude to be tremendously sad.
I'm with you VJ. I can't believe this victim described himself as an "old man". My mother is 55 and certainly isn't old to me.
But, as the late, great George Carlin observed, some guys are "old men" in their 20s. It's a state of mind. My father-in-law has relished and luxuriated in a self-declared state of "old man" for the past decade or so I've known him. He's a ripe 52 and the only thing really holding him back (according to him) is the absence of grandchildren.
Don't hold your breath, Pops.
No we shove them into the bear dens or use them as fertilizer for our tasty Idaho potatoes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7t7cGwN7_0
With a tough new job to do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYXQ21B8XbI
What if he was thinking about a plate of shrimp?
my job is a lot tougher than that pussy (I'm an ICU nurse in a neuro unit). I actually had a patient tell me was going to strangle me with the tubing from the foley and then he told my student I was precepting that her husband was an MF'er for marrying her and she was a pawn of the Devil. These guys are total lightweights and their guns are an attempt to rectify what is obviously an emotional imbalance and/or more likely a physical shortcoming.
It's just like their version of 'free speech' - without sensible self-regulation, all the crazies come out of the woodwork.
The founding fathers intended adults to contribute to and maintain our democracy, not a bunch of little spoiled brats yelling, "I wanna pack my gun!" and "I want my hate speech!" and "Why do you hate America!?!?!?!"
is a polite society.
McAffee was just being polite by whipping it out.
Damn libbrills squack about nothing.
I mean, what's next?
No hand grenades in kindergarten?
Sheesh.
Next thing ya know, ya won't be able to pistol whip your own kids anymore!
Damn east coast libruls!
Pistol whipping is the best way to get excited brats to sleep.
What are we spose to do; read to em!?
and nerds!
I couldn't read that...
I don't even know what I typed.
Thanks!
n/t
a white man could brandish his weapon when and where ever he wanted...in church...the general store...the movie theater....
wait...we're still talkin about guns ain't we?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYlDbv7MqE8
Damn, I almost miss California. It was one of the few librul states where you could strap a sword to your back and walk in public.
http://www.8164.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/1...
Grapes of Wrath
*peep*
..you often go out and photograph residences for insurance companies or banks for documentation. When and if approached, its easy to explain what you're doing and why. If the individual is uncomfortable with your presence, there's no reason not to pull back and leave. Not getting the documentation will likely work against the homeowner. mcaffee was stupid and he should pay but as I said, its more than likely nothing will come of this. Que Lastima!
At least McAffee's in a job that suits his nature, documenting (reveling in?) other's misfortunes.
Exactly what I was thinking... what a sad, pathetic way to make a living.
A friend said McAffee's side of the story is this:
"Lutes confronted McAffee, becoming increasingly hostile, Davidson said. When Lutes struck McAffee's Ford Escort with his hand, McAffee brandished the weapon to de-escalate the conflict, Davidson said."
Going to defcon 1 is actually de-escalating the conflict. What a V8 moment.
There was a low-life down in New Mexico that got into an argument with a college student in the next apartment. When the student tossed him out, the argument continued onto the balcony. The student got sufficiently animated that he broke one of the low-life's windows. To the low-life's thinking—if you can call it thinking—this was a mortal assault on himself so he dug out his AK47 and started hunting down the college student. He finally found him down in the alley way and shot him down. At least he didn't bother contesting the murder charge.
truly a case of two stupid acts never equal a smart one. I'm sure that Ford Escort was stinging from the "old man's" strike. Guns always do end arguments, don't they?
Weird says I!
Seems like the gunman is afraid of his own shadow. The only dog I had that I was ever afraid might bite someone was like that: he seemed to feel that every encounter was life-threatening. Fortunately, he could usually run away. Now when you get a gunman who feels he can't back away for some reason you end up with a senseless shooting—like that yahoo in Louisiana who shot a Japanese teenager (see wikipedia)who came to his house asking directions. Guys like that are afraid and not very bright. Note in this instance, the gunman thought he would deescalate things by pointing a weapon at someone; introducing a gun to an argument is by definition an escalation.
Please please please PLEASE let this result in a felony conviction! Then, ACCORDING TO "TOUGH LAWS" these idiots helped pass, he will be banned forever from owning a firearm! Also, he won't be allowed to vote for his Republican butt-buddies!
Hoisted by his own retardedness...
Although it's no longer PC the term retardation was for the weakest among us in society.
Every American ought to be entitled to any weapons he or she wants, pointing at their neighbor's houses
Unless they're Arab-American.
I would imagine that any Idaho police and most of the judges there are well trained in the IOKIYAR principle of 'justice.'
I guess you'll have to be happy that Dubya is no longer in office. Otherwise the freak would be a candidate for the Medal of Freedom.
It seems like every other comment I get an error message, and when I try to turn on glen beck, it says it's been disconnected.
Either the C&L server is glitching, or somebody on the webs is doing something nasty to C&L packet traffic. It would have to be at the AT&T level of trunk switching.
When its bad, going through a proxy like Ninja Cloak helps when C&L disappears.
I'm not technologically savvy, so I have no idea what you just said.
But I always wondered if it's all the graphics and ads loading up the site.
They all connect together at big computer server trunk lines, this is where AT&T have their packet cloning equipment for monitoring web traffic, its also where the big web computers that pass on the traffic can inject false reject packets to make it appear that a website is down or unavailable to a user.
Its always suspicious that when certain topics are discussed on forums, thats when the technical problems occur.
If going directly to a website with a www address fails, but a simultaneously open anon proxy works, that pretty much proves the direct webpage is being blocked by outside forces beyond the user and the website.
Do you wear wraparounds that see the entire spectrum of color?
with electronics and computers.
So does that now mean when you go grocery shopping you buy Grannies Home-Made Old-Fashioned Silicon Chip Cookies?
n/t
Interesting how in the past 30 years technogeeks have moved from the Silicon Valley of the San Francisco Bay area to the Silicon Vallies of showgirls.
... which is easily confused with the Silicone Valley, located 300 miles South in San Fernando, by the non-technocrati ;-)
than those silicon wafer cookies, those things taste like crispy puffed air with a hint of cardboard--who buys those things???
Get the ones with chocolate chips
and the lobsters do not suffer.
:-(
Somebody not a Republican activist, they would be dead or bleeding on the sidewalk, death by cop etc, IOKIYAR to play with guns in public.
According to his own version, a guy hit his car with his hand. He then pulls a gun to de-escalate!?!? That pretty much explains the Bush presidency, don't it?
to harm its resale value in case the car was repo'd.
because i am stopped in their path, i will keep this in mind.
f'n joggers
just what are they runnin away from anyway!?
We have this professional blow-hard on the Dallas Commissioner's Court, John Wiley Price, who always seemed disappointed there was never any real Civil Rights protest movement in the 60's here about. He was always leading one protest or another.
Holding yet another protest in front of some business or another, he lunged at a woman's car and grabbed her windshields, frightening her terribly. Her car rolled a little before coming to a complete stop, and he then tried to claim because he grabbed her windshield-wipers, she tried to run him down, but it was on videotape.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trR5ROuf1Uk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trR5ROuf1Uk
I have a picture of Mr. Happy over at my blog should you have a care to look. (blatant blog whoring) Maybe not a skinhead but certainly a bonehead.
http://43sb.com/?q=node/6130
The magistrate set his bond at $50,000. He'll be there a while methinks.
This guy helped stage a coup getting the wingnuts to wrest control of the Idaho Republican Party from the moderates. This schism still hasn't resolved itself and our governor panders to them.
"He was released from Ada County jail on Thursday after family members and friends posted a portion of the $50,000 bond."
From the link provided.
pretty twisted stuff.
http://www.apfn.org/pdf/citizen.pdf
These folks scare me and thats not easy.
Lock up all these violent Right Wing-Nut, gun threatening Terrorists.
CONFIRMED GLEN BECK/FOX 912 COMMITTEE MEMBER ID
Google Search result:
9-12 Project IdahoTorrie Lacy; Todd Buchanan; Troy Richmond; Jim Reynolds; Valerie Candelaria; Deborah Alexakos; Challis McAffee.
http://912projectidaho.com/
Name has been scrubbed off the 912 ID website but can be viewed in the cached history.
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:Z6Booy9md...
It looks to me like the Republicans should hang up their hats. If there ever were an honest Republican he or she is long gone now, out of the party.
WTF was that insane Christian thinking he was doing?! Good friken grief, is every Republican that's left a violently crazed extremist gun loon?!
Someone is going to be killed or maimed.
Watch the righteous 2nd Amendment crowd throw up their hands in horror and say it's not their fault. in fact, they'll find a way to blame the person who gets shot - even if he or she is a toddler in the wrong place at the wrong time.
how the real victim was the gun owner, who had to endure the attack on his bullet by the assailant's head.
http://www.challism.com/id4l/pitchfork.htm
Says they're out of pitchforks, but they've got nooses.
"Ask about out Congressional Package"
that "pitch fork" is a figure of speech, referring how most revolutions are started by the working class... i.e. the majority of the people, doing all the work, against the few at the top hoarding all the money. Pitch forks being an instrument that is normally used to perform farm work, but at the same time can be useful as a weapon. I.e. the dichotomy of that which is used to do all the work that ends up enriching the elites, can also be used to peg down those same elites down a few notches.
The noose has only been used in American history as an alternative figure of speech for lynchings, i.e. racially-motivated violence. So their freudian slip is double plus good, and clears all sorts of doubt regarding where these people really stand: it is not about "big evil government" it is about "there is a black guy in the White House now.... "
Lutes, 51, told The Associated Press
Now wait just a rootin' tootin' minute there "Grand pa".
I'm fifty-God-damned-one and I sure as Hell am not "an old man".
Sweet Jebus pal,you're making us look bad here.
Now put that toupee back on and get out there and live Damn it! Live!
"The Republican Party has a huge problem on their hands. They are quickly being taken over by the most extreme, paranoid, fringe elements in our society"
I love it when these clowns do themselves in with their stupidity. They suffer from rabid insanity, and it usually manifest itself with abhorant behavior.
I live in Virginia -- which has open carry laws like Arizona -- should I show up -- as a democrat -- to a GOP healthcare townhall meeting with an AK47? My available choices are Eric Cantor's or Randy Forbes.. ;)
Would it be more detrimental to our causes or beneficial?
But it might get you killed.
And he's armed!!! Open fire, boys!"
American Patriots Thwart Terrorist Attack at Tea Party
Perpetrator Dies of Multiple Gunshot Wounds
use guns!
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