Thursday, June 01, 2006

Women File Suit Over Bookstore Incident

Lean pickings last night. . .

From Will Bunch
"Avenging Santorum: It Takes a Village of Five Angry Young Women

There's so much going on with our junior senator, Rick Santorum, that we can't remember it all. This "Santorum Classic" episode from just 10 short months ago had almost fallen completely down the memory hole, but now it's back in a big way.

Do you remember this? It happened last Aug. 10, when Santorum was about to stop at a Barnes & Noble store outside Wilmington, Delaware (another state he doesn't live in) to promote his book: "It Takes a Family." Five young women and teens of the liberal persuasion from just across the border in Pennsylvania who disagreed with some of the senator's views on social issues decided to attend and possibly ask him some questions afterwards.

But they never made it that far into the night. That's because one of them grabbed a book by a notorious Santorum critic, gay sex writer Dan Savage, and joked that they should ask him to sign it. The women laughed, but one Santorum fan in the room didn't think the joke was funny; that woman was soon huddling with a uniformed Delaware state trooper, who was actually working a private security gig, as well as store employees, and the senator's people.

Check out what happened next:. . ."

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