{"id":2877,"date":"2004-10-28T10:16:39","date_gmt":"2004-10-28T15:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2877.html"},"modified":"2004-10-28T10:16:39","modified_gmt":"2004-10-28T15:16:39","slug":"this-is-why-i-left-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/this-is-why-i-left-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"This is why I left Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all get frustrated with our political rivals from time to time, but Floridians seem to have a special way of expressing their dissatisfaction.<\/p>\n<p>This includes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20041028\/NEWS\/410280655\/1006\/SPORTS\">insane Democrats<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Barry Seltzer told police he was simply exercising his &#8220;political expression.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But after the 46-year-old real estate investor admitted intentionally driving his silver Cadillac onto a sidewalk where U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris and her supporters stood waving at passing cars, authorities arrested him.<\/p>\n<p>A police lieutenant said Seltzer, a registered Democrat, was annoyed by the Harris supporters, who were standing in the street, slowing traffic. So he hit the accelerator and jumped a curb at the intersection of Fruitville Road and North Washington Boulevard about 6 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I intimidated them with my car,&#8221; he told officers, an arrest report said. &#8220;I did not run them down. I scared them a little.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A4011-2004Oct27.html\">insane Republicans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An anti-John Kerry demonstrator was charged with felony aggravated assault with a gun for allegedly pointing a weapon at the head of a Kerry supporter.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Garone, 52, was released from jail Tuesday on his own recognizance.<\/p>\n<p>Garone and others were holding anti-Kerry signs at a street corner Monday in Vero Beach when Trevor Pickering drove up and said &#8220;Go Kerry,&#8221; according to an arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>Pickering argued with the anti-Kerry protesters, and then got out of the car and knocked a sign out of the hands of one of the demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s when (Garone) walked up to my car and stuck a gun to my head,&#8221; Pickering said. &#8220;I said &#8216;I&#8217;m sorry&#8217; and &#8216;Please don&#8217;t kill me,&#8217; drove away and called the cops.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess we can&#8217;t all just get along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all get frustrated with our political rivals from time to time, but Floridians seem to have a special way of expressing their dissatisfaction. This includes insane Democrats&#8230; Barry Seltzer told police he was simply exercising his &#8220;political expression.&#8221; But after the 46-year-old real estate investor admitted intentionally driving his silver Cadillac onto a sidewalk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}