Reporter Assaulted by Republican Aide

by angryindian | September 22, 2007 at 03:41 pm | 953 views | add comment

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It seems to be open-season on reporters that ask real questions. Scandal plagued republican Rep. Jerry Weller decided not to answer any questions surrounding a questionable land deal in another country by CBS' Mike Flannery. In the video of the incident, you see the aide literally bang his way through the crowd at the door to the staircase and you then hear verbal commotion in the stairwell. Is this how we can expect political reporters and dissenters to be treated for asking questions?

The United States is missing. - The Angryindian

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What a horrible, terrible, very bad, no good day Rep. Jerry Weller (R-IL) is having. Facing questions about ethics over some Nicaraguan investments, Weller announced this morning the old stand by of wanting to spend more time with his family and opting not to run again.

If Weller had hoped that taking his ball and going home would stop the questions about his ethical failings, he was wrong. Chicago’s CBS2 Political Editor Mike Flannery followed after Weller to get a statement on his investments in Nicaragua. The raw video is hard to make out, but Flannery is claiming that one of Weller’s aides pushed him down the stairs and into a woman in the stairwell. He has said he will press charges.