Pawlenty Exploratory Committee Consultant Arrested for Doing a Little Too Much Exploring
**Written by Doug Powers
Some of these exploratory committee guys really take their jobs seriously:
ANKENY, Iowa — A 15-year-old girl found a campaign worker from Alabama banging on her Ankeny family’s back door early Wednesday morning.
Chloe Steward told KCCI she heard her dog barking around 3 a.m. and went to investigate. She said she found a man trying to get into the back door.
“His arm was in my back door, trying to get in and I screamed and went upstairs to my parents room and I continued screaming,” said Chloe Steward.
The family then called police.
Police said Benjamin Foster was arrested and charged with public intoxication and trespassing. He was taken to the Polk County Jail.
Iowa political strategist Eric Woolson is a consultant for the Pawlenty Exploratory Committee. He confirmed to KCCI that Foster is employed by the Pawlenty Exploratory Committee. He declined comment at this time on the incident.
Hillary had the “3 a.m. phone call” campaign commercial, but I doubt Pawlenty will produce a “3 a.m. drunk guy trying to get in the back door” ad.
All the commotion nearly woke up an Alvin Greene for President exploratory committee worker named Alvin Greene who was sleeping in the family’s garage.
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Good thing he wasn’t in Wyoming, he’d have been shot by that screaming little girl, or at the very least the Dad.
double tap, you know what i’m sayin?
The dems will call this more “extreme” action by conservatives and demand Pawlenty cease and desist even considering running against their beloved Obeyme. Benny Boy Foster is toast.
I guess this means the libtards will suggest the only option is to vote for obama.
Maybe he’s just a writer looking for a storyline for a new book.
come on, drunks have to find work somewhere, where else are they going to get money for all the alcohol. at least the guy wasn’t asking for money so he can redistribute it, he just wanted to sack out.
I guess the dude had pawlenty to drink, eh?
That’s why we keep a 12 gauge w/double aught shot in it.
The country has lots of drunks, some who will try to get into people’s houses. But it is newsworthy because…. oh yea…. he was connected (employed) by some politically sensitive organization. Yawn.
Aren’t you at least a little ashamed of that one?
Yes, but I had to beat Spacey.
It’s a pun, son.
Fine. I’m suddenly the purveyor of rubbish jokes?
Suddenly?
FINE.
In front of God and everyone, I publically apologize to Spacey for the diss. It’s kind of slow here at work.
I’m an EPA worker.
Speaking of Pawlenty, I see he lost his high ranking on NumbersUSA with a C+ to another Repub. presidential hopeful, Michele Bachmann who has a B-.
Good lord the repuks can’t get a candidate with even an A- rating with Numbers and we want to defeat barry?
Cain only has a D- ranking. He best be making some speeches about immigration in all areas, as should anyone else wanting to win next year.
Must be stressful for the poor dears. Take a week or year off. We’ll pick up the shrink’s tab.
Down here in Texas, we call that a Dad joke. And it was a darn good one.
LOL@ Hangfire #16.
in the past, mrcakes has warned others:
‘when she says FINE like that, watch out. She won’t stop until she, eventually, gets you back.’
The Force is strong with mrcakes.
Not to rush to the defense of irresponsible drinking but:
“They said he vomited in their backyard and scared their daughter.”
A little scary at any age but the fact it was a 13 y.o that was involved ( and female ) is what makes this newsworthy. I’d say if anything, more indicative of an Epsilon Alcoholic and not necessarily a molester/rapist?
Possible he thought it was his own house or that of a friend or relative. Just sayin’.
Well, if you won’t then I guess it is up to me.
hahahahaha, chap.
The smoker you drink the player you get.
A looney leftwing liberal, a Conservative, and a Red Neck are walking down the street. Each are packing a Colt 1911 .45. Then a gang banger steps out and demands their valuables.
Looney leftwing liberal; “Why do I have this evil handgun!? Guns are dangerous! If I pull it out, this young man will just take it from me and kill me with it. He’s a minority who’s been denied his civil rights. If I just give him my valuables, including this evil handgun, he’ll go away and leave me alone.” By now the gang banger has already robbed him, taken the gun, shot him with it, and is deflowering his wife.
Conservative; !BANG!
Red Neck; !BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG! Reloads. !BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG! Wife says, “Nice shooting dear. You’ve been practicing.” Daughter says,”Are those the Winchester Silvertip Hollowpoints I gave you for Christmas?” Son says, “Let me shoot the next one Daddy! PLEEEEEEZ!”
Were he in Wyoming, it would have been a sheep screaming in terror, not a little girl.
My guess is this is perfect fodder for Pawlenty’s campaign to then lecture on his high horse to the rest of us about those Christian, moral values that Republicans always say they’re following and/or fighting for. Yawn.
How weak is the Republican field? Trump is barely behind Romney for the lead.
When an entire party creates a huge vacuum on important issues with voters (Obama’s birth certificate, unfair trade with China, etc…), it creates an opportunity for someone else.
It speaks volumes about the GOP that Trump is already scoring. Now if Hillary would get into the picture for the Dems, 2012 would be WIDE OPEN. A Trump could actually win a
3rd2nd party campaign.Trump winning the Republican nomination would be yuge. Absolutely yuge.
Fox revealed a poll today that shows that shows that 40% of voters would blame Obama and Dems while 37% would blame the Republicans with the rest blaming both.
This is great for the Tea Party. If the GOP refuses to embrace the Tea Party, they are now poised to be eliminated to no advantage for Democrats.
Shut it down!
Forgot link again.
Hey, great having you onboard and welcome to 1999! Yeah, done w/ that. Say, how’s that Stimu-pork Financing going?
Anyway, we get married, grow up, have kids, take on more debt than we ever imagined advisable, and then promptly forget we ever had a youth, embarrassed ourselves or made mistakes. I know if none of us will, the ACLU is reviewing his case as we speak.
Interesting way of phrasing the fact that, given the choice, the MOST people blame the Republicans.
Yeah, that’s what I really like in a candidate…a thorough vetting of staff. Not a good start, that is unless you are trying to emulate the Obama success!
Thanks for keepin’ the faith brother. There’s been a number of posts lately impatiently declaring “Why isn’t the damned Tea Party taking to the streets/up in arms/doing our dirty work on this, that or the other pet peeve of mine!?”
Well, sorry guys. It’s a big agenda. We can’t be all things to all people all the time. We’re doing the best we can w/ zero $’s. AND… we have local issues to deal with. Not the least of which is dealing w/ rampant voter FRAUD we’ve had in Oregon since we went to mailed ballots. First things first. Leave Rent-a-mob tactics for the PEU’s.
Sorry Chappy. This isn’t subject to interpretation. Twenty percent of voters would blame the Democrats. Another 20% (not the same people, no overlap) would blame a specific Democrat, Obama. while 37% blame the Republicans. The rest blame both.
Impossible to disassemble that to mean anything else. Lots of us Tea Partiers are in the 23% who blame both while I doubt any blame the GOP over the Dems or Obama. That’s 63% which amplifies yesterday’s Rassmussen poll revealing that 48% of Americans support the Tea Party agenda.
Sixty-three percent of voters will blame Obama specifically, the Democrats generally or the Democrats/Republicans jointly.
Slam dunk.
Not what it said at all. But clearly you have a problem reading polls.
And in any case, I can (and have) pulled many more polls showing the exact opposite.
But you only listen to Rassy because only Rassy tells you what you want to hear. Despite the fact that they have lately bombed in their accuracy ratings.
Yeesh. My bad. Not a Rassmussen poll.
Apologies PP.
Chappy, I’m not going to get into a long argument with you. I have no problems reading polls and arguing over the obvious with a fog-making machine is a waste of time.
Someone here doesn’t know how to read polls and it isn’t me. End of discussion.
So you are denying that the most popular choice for who to blame was Congressional Republicans?
Fpolls.
OT, but on PP’s T,
As someone who lives in the DC area, today is the first day when the fear of a government shutdown was really palpable. The local news stations are starting to go into “SHUTDOWN CRISIS” mode, interviewing fed workers, speculating how long it will last, etc…
Pretty interesting, actually, from an objective view.
If he was a Democrat, his excuse would be census worker just trying to get unanswered census form questions from the residents at the address. Cooperate or we will return.
And while we are at it ….
Fpols
Oh! Oh! Oh! ( doing best Horshack )
Mistah Kottah!
Yeah, don’t you think the inception of a Third Party is making a mess of Fpolls? Course we could just go away ( making for some very, very happy people ) and “return things ‘just’ the way they used… to be?”
Knew you’d like that.
That would solve his drinking problem.
Chap
Once again, you have no evidence to substantiate your claims.
Being a lawyer, I expect more of you regarding matters of substance.
Disappointing, but a little friendly advice—
I wouldn’t even waste my looking for any evidence. I highly suspect it does not even exist.
You see, Rasmussen polling makes quite a bit of their methodology available to its members, so they really have nothing to hide, including the fact the people they call are almost exactly 1/3 indepedent, republican and democrat.
But by all means feel free to keep reading the NY Times or the Silver Spring newspaper as they pretend the whole country still loves Obama and the democrats.
Nevermind those record losses in 2010.
It’s what the east-coast elite think that’s important.
(laughs)
Funny, I thought the liberal commentators on here would like this article a little more. A good chunk of them bleat about how “unfair” this blog is whenever their arguments get shackled.
Thank you. And a big part of the reason I think the 2012 hand-wringing has just.got.to.stop.
Keep believing that.
To their members, and not the public in general like most of the other major polling houses. But in any case, their results speak for themselves. And they were coasting on their good results in 2000. Since then, they have been pretty mediocre to bad. But I wouldn’t expect you to know that because you “won’t even waste your looking”, whatever that means. I’ll assume it means willful ignorance.
It is so cute when one side thinks that the results of the last election is a great awakening rather than what it really is: a fickle electorate. Did you see what happened in Wisconsin yesterday?
I did, dead people are still a voter block in the Democrat party.
The only thing more predictable than the sun rising is conservatives whining about voter fraud and stomping away like a child when they don’t get their way.
You must be wining because no one is whining, just pointing out some history & who’s stomping away?
I never heard the boogeyman referred to as “history.” But hey…whatever floats your boat.
*Pawlenty is toast anyway, as in milqtoast; Nice fellow, but not likely to be the GOP nominee!
*And while we’re at it:
Daniels: Believes in means testing, which makes him a progressive, and haven’t they done enough damage already?
Romney: More experience than P-BO, in death panels, that is; Can’t get rid of that yoke!
Barbour: Will compromise for food!!
Christie: Has leadership skills, like getting up front in the buffet line!
Jeb Bush: He’s a Bush!
Palin: Shoots from the hip, sometimes spraying the foot with lead!
Cain: The only anti-PC candidate, because he’s not a politician and genuinely cares about the future of our country!
Newt: As a Rep., he loved his country so much, he cheated on his wife; As POTUS, will he love his country so much that we all get screwed?
Bachmann: Wonder Woman!
Trump: Rudy with money, and a closet Democrat to boot!
Next under the bus
Check out the perpetrator’s name ….
Robert Richard Titcomb
What!!! I thought, according to Trump, no one ever knew Obama growing up!!! He just magically sprouted up at Harvard Law!!! What birther narrative am I supposed to believe now?
Alrighty then, so now The Donald knows!
So now we add Titcomb to William Ayres et al
Because Obama controls the personal sex lives of friends! *Palm to forehead*
I heard on twitter that GWB’s friend’s male dog humped another male dog. Bush can’t control his friend’s gay dogs!
Oh, you’re a flathead
Who knows, maybe Titcomb was Barry’s coke dealer?
I suppose if it would have been the friend of a Republican politician, the ironic name would have been Robert Closetschwangstroker.
And would have been soliciting a male prostitute.
pssst… being a homophobe is bigotry in action.
HAHA! You think I’m a homophobe!? It’s a joke about all the Republican/family moral men on the right that get caught with men.
On April 6th, 2011 at 10:03 pm, kentroyals5 said:
Nice try bigot … you’re Obie Wan projection lacks!
It’s over!! “Sexchual Chocolate, Sexchual Chocolate”!!
Good one Doug, still laughing!
If you MUST feed the trolls
Feed them to the aligators
Makes one wonder if they have troll union.
Old BenGay shows up right as Kentroll5 is going down the crapper.
Whoops. Fell asleep on the clock. We’re so lazy.
They know that. They are just employing Alinskyite tactics.
I am right and irrefutable because I referenced Alinsky.
Haha…I see they pull that card out almost as often as Jesse Jackson pulls out the race card.
Yeah, thats the tough thing about Alinsky tactics. They only work when the other side doesn’t know about them.
People know now and they are not impressed with that kind of underhanded tactic. Honest debate and truth have become a casualty. Thanks Alinsky. What a great guy you were. And thanks Democrats for lowering the political debate. Bill Ayers would be proud.
That’s an explosive statement…
You are right. I was not.
That’s just the sort of thing that Hitler would have done.
Whew! I thought we’d never get there.
Now, now, Chappy. Don’t forget how you had to be schooled by me on polling. You were very easily enthralled by “Research 2000″ and their cool flash cross-tabs, touting R2K as a polling authority. Unless you were just kissing up in hopes of R2K laying down a retainer for you to defend it (“he” actually – it was an obvious one man DBA scam) in the Kos fraud case, of course.
I never said R2K was a polling authority. I may have cited one of their polls and asked people what specific criticisms they had with the methodology rather than silly knee jerk rejections.
Funny how “knee jerk reactions” (read: “Peep knows how to do company research way better than me, dang”!!) was spot on accurate. Keep working on that “methodology” thing, though.
I recall a Moonie once explaining to me, via a quite detailed methodology, why Sun Myung Moon was the Messiah. For some reason, I was not quite convinced.
That remains to be seen. Obviously DKos lost faith in them.
But it was spot on wrt to the NY-23 election, which is where R2K was cited by me in the first place. So they were obviously doing something right.
A crime wave in Ankeny? The country is coming apart. Good thing the keys to the John Deere were in the house.
I would say that’s kind interpretation of Kos’ statement R2K had ““fabricated or manipulated beyond recognition.” it’s polls.
LOL, that’s akin to being amazed by some guy who finally get a bull’s eye after 100,000 dart throws: “Wow, that cat sure has great aim!”.
R2K was an average pollster, when just looking at their rankings. Whether that was because of data manipulation or what, I don’t know. What I do know is that they laid out all their questions and cross tabs for people to scrutinize. But rather than actually do that, people here lazily dismissed them.
If you decide to sit on your butt and eat Doritos at home rather than go to the gym, the fact that the gym blew up because of a gas leak that day doesn’t change the fact that you are a lazy slob. It just makes you an ALIVE lazy slob.
That’s pretty pretty drunk I would say.
Guaranteed he won’t remember that night!
Yeah, I agree, them bright baubles look so cool. Wonder if R2K sold ‘em in it’s “going out of business” sale?
Yeah, again – the same way they lazily dismiss the glittery rationale of UFO abductees and the aforementioned Moonies. How awful.
You are wrong on this point. But it did make me laugh. So we’ll call it even.
Pawlenty, Barbour, Daniels, Huntsman, Romney.
That’s your George Will approved list of NotTheDemocrats to choose from.
LET’S RAISE CAIN!
Gee, VA PATRIOT, George Will’s list of approved candidates and my list of approved candidates do not match!!
was it his vomiting that frightened the girl?