Two weeks ago I wrote an article concerning RNC Chairman Michael Steele's "Fire Nancy Pelosi" bus tour. Well the bus finally got to Northern California and so I went out to Stockton to meet it.
It was an outdoor rally with about 50 supporters there. While about 20 Democratic protesters were kept back on the road, a lone woman had managed to get to the front of the audience. She was wearing a yellow crown to protest the "Bailout King" David Harmer, the extremely conservative Republican candidate for Congress in the area. She seemed to be getting some rough treatment so I made my way over to her. One of the first things I heard, shouted by a guy wearing an earpiece was, "There's a protester here, we need to get her out!"
Then a woman said, "She can't be here."
The man responded, "Yeah, but we can't do that now. Just surround her everyone. Everyone surround her!"