So this is cool. The McDaniel staffer who was the main guy involved in that courthouse/ballot weirdness in the middle of the night basically live-tweeted the whole thing – or rather live-Facebooked it. At 11:16 pm on election night, just as the election officials were locking down the Hinds County courthouse, Scott Brewster messaged “Going to come down to Hinds county. We will win the night but might be runnoff.” Four hours later Brewster and two other Tea Partiers had to be rescued from the courthouse, where the county ballots are secured, after somehow managing the lock themselves in. The Sheriff’s department says their story about how they ended up there is a “fabrication.”
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Hinds County Sheriff’s Dept concludes no laws were broken in McDaniel courthouse caper.
So we have the innocent explanation that three doofuses from the McDaniel campaign (one official, two supporters) showed up at the courthouse in the middle of the night, accidentally locked themselves in the building and then had to be rescued. Got it.
Weed sherpa who guided Dowd on Colorado adventure speaks out.
Richard Lugar tells Thad Cochran that if he wants to stay in the Senate he’s going to need to show a little more spunk and energy.
While that mass shooter in Seattle paused to reload his gun, another student came at him with pepper spray and managed to subdue him. Pepper spray versus shotgun = brave.
Guy drives up to the front of a courthouse in Georgia “armed with an assault rifle, bullet proof vest, smoke grenades and a gas mask.” Deputies confronted him in a gun fight and killed him before he could do more than injure (non-fatally) one of the deputies.
So Scott Brown got $1.3 million for signing on as an “advisor” for this company …
GDSI is a unusual outfit. As reported by the Globe, it was originally formed as a beauty supply company in New Jersey, then became a wireless data firm in California, before evolving into a firearms and gun technology company in south Florida last year.
The company says it is positioning itself as (deep breath) “a leader in providing small arms manufacturing, complementary security and technology solutions and knowledge-based, cyber-related, culturally attuned social consulting in unsettled areas.” But GDSI has no revenue, no patents, and no manufacturing facilities. It has issued millions of shares of stock, which trade for well under a dollar a share. (The stock’s value has fallen by half since Brown got his stash.)
More here.
We’re out more about that man who tried to storm a courthouse in Cummings, Georgia, armed to the teeth and carrying explosives. His name was Dennis Marx, a gun trader, already due in court on Friday on weapons and drug charges. Marx had various gear on his person which suggested he planned to take hostages. He was also a self-proclaimed “sovereign citizen.”
TPM Reader RJ sends us more details from the neighborhood …