result #101912 - YOUNG REPUBS SHOOT PICS OF DEMOCRATS AND PLAY "CATCH AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT"

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political : YOUNG REPUBS SHOOT PICS OF DEMOCRATS AND PLAY "CATCH AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT"

[+] serious ballot by cranky
ACTIVE Sep 14,2006 - Tue Jun 09, 09

(AP) Republicans on Tuesday distanced themselves from campaign activities that encourage college students to "Catch an Illegal Immigrant" and shoot cardboard cutouts of leading Democrats with a BB gun or paintball gun.

Democratic Chairman Howard Dean said in a letter to his Republican counterpart, Ken Mehlman, on Tuesday that such activities, reportedly put together by a GOP college organizer, "can only be described as divisive, potentially dangerous and discriminatory."

Republicans nationally and in Michigan claimed they have no connection with the woman accused of organizing the offbeat campaign activities at the University of Michigan. RNC spokesman Brian Jones said "the woman has no affiliation with the Republican National Committee, and we certainly condemn this kind of behavior. It's offensive and there's no place for it." He said news reports she was hired by the RNC are incorrect.

The events were reported by the University of Michigan newspaper, The Michigan Daily.

The "Catch an Illegal Immigrant" event reportedly allows participants to win prizes for catching others posing as illegal immigrants and a "Fun with Guns" event allows people to shoot cardboard cutouts of top Democrats such as Sens. Hillary Clinton and John Kerry with a BB gun or paintball gun, the newspaper reported.

Dean cited several news reports that college Republicans on other campuses were involved in events like "Catch an Illegal Immigrant.

Mehlman wrote back: "I wholeheartedly agree with you that the activities you cite in your letter are reprehensible."

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Should such activities just be chalked up to spirited college hi-jinxs? Or are the old fuddy-duddies at the DNC and RNC right, and this is offensive behavior worthy of condemnation?

Ease up, this is just Young Republicans having a little fun	23
No, the Republican National Committee is right: this behavior is offensive and reprehensible	7

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COMMENTS:
Voted : No, the Republican National Committee is right: this behavior is offensive and reprehensible
Repulsive.

by mojo on Thu Sep 14, 06 7:52am [+]

Voted : No, the Republican National Committee is right: this behavior is offensive and reprehensible
This is what happens when Hate is used as a political lever.

by Cathexis on Thu Sep 14, 06 8:08am [+]

Their sand, our oil, every young SKINHEAD'S duty.

by elvislennon on Thu Sep 14, 06 8:50am [+]

Voted : No, the Republican National Committee is right: this behavior is offensive and reprehensible
I'd hoped that this was a joke ballot...

Still, reading this, I'm led to wonder why we're so divided a nation.

by Truthseeker013 on Thu Sep 14, 06 9:06am [+]

Voted : Ease up, this is just Young Republicans having a little fun
Perhaps they were just training for when the draft is reinstated. IC_tune

by _Beelzebubba on Thu Sep 14, 06 9:23am [+]

If that happened expect bottom burps to register on the Richter scale when NeoCon supporters hear of it...

by Steelhamster on Thu Sep 14, 06 11:41am [+]

Voted : No, the Republican National Committee is right: this behavior is offensive and reprehensible
If the University of Michigan is like any other university, it's probably a student that organized it. So I'm not surprised. It shows a high level of immaturity.

Are we any better when we dish out the hate filled comments we do about the Republicans? We're teaching our kids no better by doing so.

by Grumpy_Person on Thu Sep 14, 06 5:20pm [+]

You may have a point, Grumpy, but I would suggest that making a rude crack about Bush is different that putting up a life size cut-out of him and shooting it with a BB gun.

by cranky on Fri Sep 15, 06 7:04am [+]

Maybe true. But let's face it, some of the comments made at times are the internet equivalent of the same. Makes me wonder what kind of rally we'd have.

by Grumpy_Person on Fri Sep 15, 06 10:59am [+]

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