Maggie's Farm

No, that pick-up line never did work too well for me in picking up girls.

It probably wouldn’t have worked too well either for the San Diego sheriff pilloried by ultra-liberal Keith Olberman as Worst Person In The World for doing his duty at a fund raiser party hosted by a renowned lesbian in my Congressional district for (not a lesbian) 3-time loser Democrat candidate for Congress Francine Busby.

Local Democrat Congressional candidate Francine Busby and friends' “I’m above the law” attitude won’t work too well either.

The other night, in a residential neighborhood, a neighbor complained about the noise (including use of a loudspeaker by Busby).  The sheriff arrived, and as per procedure in logging in the visit, asked the host, Shari Barman, for her name and age.  She refused and walked away, several times.  The sheriff then held her arm.  According to the police report, Barman physically attacked him, another party-goer grabbed the sheriff’s leg, and others surrounded the sheriff and broke Barman away.  The sheriff called for help, which arrived en masse.  Some of the partiers were pepper sprayed.  Barman was arrested.  The sheriff’s department is conducting an investigation, especially due to the uproar coming from Barman and Busby.  News reports are available under “Busby” at Google.

In effect, disregarding the sheriff, walking away, and attacking him are similar to such behavior at a traffic stop, subjecting the person to arrest.  But, Francine Busby, in her fund raiser linked below, says the sheriffs violated the partiers’ civil rights. Oh yeah, we need another member of Congress with that attitude!  Should fit right in with Pelosi’s band.  (Wonder why in Rasmussen’s generic poll, Republicans are now favored over Democrats?  Or, why in Gallup’s Democrats are viewed as too liberal?)

There’s some more “velly interesting” sidelights:

- Barman had previously been arrested for assaulting a cop.  As the San Diego Union-Tribune editorial board member in this link comments about this 32-years before arrest:

…I'm not sure this is just a hostile attitude.

 

I also was surprised and disappointed at some of the coverage of the matter and the comments I've been hearing. Barman's defenders seem to concede that they interfered with the deputy's attempt to question Barman. If that is a given, well, I just don't see how they can claim to be in the right or to not have dramatically escalated the incident.

 

I hope there is video of the incident. I wonder if the reason it hasn't surfaced so far is because it is not favorable to Barman and the partygoers.

Note: A news report indicates that some partiers did use their cellphone to take pictures.  Will they surface, or were they erased?

- Barman is a fitness person, actively involved in professional tennis promotion, hardly the feeble-sounding aged woman purported by some. Almost every news article about the incident gives away her age as 60, but Barman wouldn’t give her age to the sheriff.

-  Francine Busby is using this incident to raise campaign funds by claiming to be a “Right-Wing Target.”  Oh, that’s why she failed to unseat the incumbent in 2004, and again twice failed against his elected replacement in 2006 even among the uproar when that prior incumbent, Randy Cunningham, had been exposed as terribly corrupt, even though in 2006 Democrats gained seats elsewhere. In 2008’s Democrat landslide, in this marginally moderate Republican district, Obama received 51% of the vote. The Rep incumbent congressman got 55%.  I don’t think her playing the victim card will do Busby’s chances any better in 2010.  As a commenter to the Busby-as-victim fundraising letter says, "Busby grasps for way to save career."

- I had previously covered the previous Busby campaigns in my district, and the day before her second 2006 effort, even more amused, here:

I saw Busby yesterday in the parking lot across the street from a client of mine in Cardiff, directing her get-out-the-vote troops like a general, and she is bulldog determined. The conversation among her lieutenants in the parking lot was how she needs to change her appearance, loosen her hair and get out of her multi-colored same-suit JC Penney wardrobe, as she has hidden her far-Left positions.

I don’t think even her JC Penney wardrobe will hide her leftist posture this time, either. (In 2006, for example, Busby was embarrassed by her appeal to illegal aliens to help her election.)

Busby and her hosts might better next time heed the words of San Diego Union-Tribune columnist Michael Stetz, who himself has faced police called to his house for noise complaints,

So I'm offering my own tried and true advice in hopes of avoiding a repeat of the great Cardiff controversy:

 

If you see a cop on your porch who says to ease it on the volume, you say: “Yes sir.” If he wants your date of birth, I say give him your date of birth. It's not the end of the world.

 

No exploitive fundraising appeals or verbally or physically attacking law enforcement, either, Ms. Busby.