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PA8 Incumbent tries to link his opponent to Mumia Abu Jamal. Absolutely VILE!!!
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20120928_GOP_tries_to_link_Bucks_Democrat_Boockvar_to_Abu-Jamal_through_husband_s_legal_work.html
GOP tries to link Bucks Democrat Boockvar to Abu-Jamal through husband's legal work
he national Republican Party's congressional campaign arm is trying to link the Democrat in a close Bucks County race to convicted police killer Mumia Abu-Jamal by pointing to legal work her husband did more than a decade ago.
The GOP attack on Kathryn Boockvar, launched online late Wednesday and followed Thursday with automated phone calls to voters, focuses on her husband's defense of Abu-Jamal's literary agent in a 1999 arrest and on his previous role as lawyer for a witness in Abu-Jamal's murder trial.
Boockvar's husband and then-law partner defended literary agent Frances Goldin, 75 at the time, on charges of blocking a building during a protest - an offense the prosecutor in the case likened Thursday to a parking ticket.
In the robocalls, voters in the Eighth Congressional District, which includes most of Bucks County and some of Montgomery, are told Boockvar's and her husband's law firm defended "one of the leading activists" for Abu-Jamal, who is serving a life term for the 1981 killing of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner.
GOP tries to link Bucks Democrat Boockvar to Abu-Jamal through husband's legal work
he national Republican Party's congressional campaign arm is trying to link the Democrat in a close Bucks County race to convicted police killer Mumia Abu-Jamal by pointing to legal work her husband did more than a decade ago.
The GOP attack on Kathryn Boockvar, launched online late Wednesday and followed Thursday with automated phone calls to voters, focuses on her husband's defense of Abu-Jamal's literary agent in a 1999 arrest and on his previous role as lawyer for a witness in Abu-Jamal's murder trial.
Boockvar's husband and then-law partner defended literary agent Frances Goldin, 75 at the time, on charges of blocking a building during a protest - an offense the prosecutor in the case likened Thursday to a parking ticket.
In the robocalls, voters in the Eighth Congressional District, which includes most of Bucks County and some of Montgomery, are told Boockvar's and her husband's law firm defended "one of the leading activists" for Abu-Jamal, who is serving a life term for the 1981 killing of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner.
Oh and her connection to Abu Jamal....
In 2000, while Yeager and Boockvar were partners in their own firm, Yeager represented Goldin, whose website boasts a client list that includes the novelist Barbara Kingsolver and former New York Police Officer Frank Serpico, as well as Abu-Jamal. Goldin had been arrested and charged with a misdemeanor while protesting Abu-Jamal's conviction.
Goldin was one of 95 people arrested in the demonstration. She was fined $250 and got a year of probation, a typical penalty for such charges, said federal prosecutor Richard Goldberg, who handed the case for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia.
Goldin was one of 95 people arrested in the demonstration. She was fined $250 and got a year of probation, a typical penalty for such charges, said federal prosecutor Richard Goldberg, who handed the case for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia.
And what does Fitzpatrick have to say about this nasty campaign attack?
Asked what the attacks on Boockvar, through her husband, had to do with those issues, he said, "I'd refer that question to the NRCC," the House GOP campaign committee.
Hey Fitzpatrick - the NRCC is your own GOP Congressional Campaign organization. I highly doubt they would run an ad like this without your permission. Not only is this attack vile it's fucking racists too. It's like you're trying to Willie Horton Boockvar by linking her to a 'scary black man'.
