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It was the party "Headquarters" for Podunk, Nowheresville, yo.
There were like a couple of dozen people there, none were injured, one got some broken glass on her jacket collar. None of them saw anything, they just heard a loud noise while they were watching the convention on TV.
I can't believe that someone would post this. Maybe Podunk is really close to Boonieville or something.
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quote:A shot apparently was fired at the Republican Party headquarters in downtown Huntington while President Bush's speech accepting the GOP nomination for president was being televised.
No one was hurt in the 10:30 p.m. Thursday incident.
A window in the building was damaged by a single shot from either a pellet gun or a small-caliber handgun, said Huntington Police Sgt. Dan Underwood.
About 25 Republican candidates and volunteers were in the headquarters at the time, watching the speech.
quote:Sounds like his typical campaign dirty tricks. Yet Again.
Sounds like your typical paranoid delusions. Yet again.
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There are way too many people here if we've got someone that actually lives in Huntington on this board. Posts: 100 | Registered: Sep 2004
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Erm, Huntington is the second biggest city in the state of West Virginia, for what it's worth. Not entirely podunk (but close). And if it's the WV thing that you're referring to, there's actually 2 of us on the board, or at least were, as of about last November (I can't remember who the other one was though).
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I've driven through Huntington. It's not just the second biggest city in WV, it's the biggest city in Huntington.
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I grew up in Carmel Valley, which is about a half hour outside of Monterey, and Juliette is from Big Sur.
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quote:I've driven through Huntington. It's not just the second biggest city in WV, it's the biggest city in Huntington.
Wraith, this is true. And I doubt you've actually driven through Huntington, as town is a mile or so off the interstate (which, coincidentally, is why it's so small ~50,000). Maybe you have, but that would probably require taking US-60 through town, and that's much, much slower. Would you feel better about my being here if I mentioned that I was in college(Illinois) or grad school(VA Tech) when I found the place? You can keep the idea of ignorant mountain folk intact (if that is, in fact what you were thinking, maybe it wasn't). Oh, and as for the bullet, I doubt there's much hunting going on in downtown Huntington (granted, I don't know exactly where the office is, but I assume it's in town somewhere).
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you went to VA Tech for grad school, Mike? Cool. Lots of my friends went to VA Tech for college. It's kinda boonies, I must admit. I mean, going to a school in a town called Blacksburg which is adjacent to a town called Lynchburg.... Posts: 1261 | Registered: Apr 2004
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So the new Wraithrule on posting is that you can't post something unless a jatraquero actually lives there? I'm just making sure, in case some of us were under the illusion that news happens even when we are not personally there to witness it.
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Yes, Blacksburg and Christiansburg are immediately adjacent, and Lynchburg is right on down the road. Wonder who's doing the lynching and who's getting lynched...
And I agree, Blacksburg is boonies, the population is, I think, in the single digit thousands, if that. Huntington is a metropolis comparatively.
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Very true Camper, but a drunk idiot is hardly a rare event - couple that with perhaps a higher number of weapons in the local populace than one might find elsewhere.
Of course, it might have been a drunk idiot with a handgun voicing a grudge which has nothing to do with my hypothesis at all.
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It's called the Reichstag Fire scam, BannaOj, popularized for use by Republican staffers by its successful use through successive campaigns led by its chief proponent CarlRove.
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Aspectre, give it a rest, OK. You know nothing about this and have no evidence of any kind of conspiracy.
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