Number 8 on the Top Ten Ways To Change the Tone In Washington (For the Worse) is Try To Have Political Opponents Arrested.
Dan Froomkin at the Post’s White House Briefing points us to a piece in the Post Crescent for an example from Wisconsin:
Outagamie County Supv. Jayson Nelson might be new to politics, but he already can attest to the price of freedom of speech.Nelson, who joined the County Board this year, said he got bounced from the VIP list for President Bush’s speech Wednesday at the Resch Center in Ashwaubenon because of inappropriate attire…
Nelson said he was ejected after being caught sporting a T-shirt endorsing the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, though he said it was fully hidden beneath a heavy cotton button-down shirt…
[T]he female election worker who singled Nelson out snatched the VIP ticket from his hand and called for police, he said.
“Look at his shirt! Look at his shirt!” Nelson recalled the woman telling the Ashwaubenon Public Safety officer who answered the call.
Nelson said the officer told him, “You gotta go,” and sternly directed him to a Secret Service contingent that spent seven or eight minutes checking him over before ejecting him from the property.