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Liberal ruffians intimidate Republican legislators



Last Thursday, two Republican legislators in Maryland became the latest victims of liberal intimidation. Del. Patrick L. McDonough was doing nothing more than loudly correcting a women who he had chased into a hallway. That was too much for the French sensitivities of a small man in wire rimmed glasses who witnessed the incident. The 5 foot 6 inch, 150 pound bystander immediately went up to McDonough and asked him to settle down. According to witnesses, the Delegate, now outnumbered, did the only thing he could do and physically assaulted the lady's would-be rescuer.

Just a few feet away, a second Delegate, Richard K. Impallaria, was also suffering from the same kind of liberal aggression. Like McDonough, Impallaria was loudly berating a woman he had chased into a hallway, demanding to know if the Latina lobbyist was a citizen. The woman responded in the cruelest manner possible. She ignored him, denying him his patriarchal rights as a white Christian male.

See the Baltimore Sun for details:

Lobbyists representing Hispanics and a Jewish alliance said they were verbally assaulted by Dels. Patrick L. McDonough and Richard K. Impallaria, Republicans who represent Baltimore and Harford counties.

McDonough said in an interview last night that he also shoved a labor union director who tried to intervene in a heated discussion, but that it was in self-defense. Some of the lobbyists who witnessed the incident in a hallway outside the Economic Matters Committee hearing room called it a physical assault.

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McDonough said he pushed the union member because he felt his personal space was invaded.

"He didn't walk over, he didn't saunter over, he came over quickly. He invaded my space," he said. "I'm the victim here."

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Natali Fani, a lobbyist with CASA of Maryland, which assists Central Americans fleeing wars and strife, said Impallaria left the committee room with her after the hearing and demanded to know whether she was a legal immigrant.

"He said, 'You probably are illegal,'" said Fani, 23, a recent Goucher College graduate and trustee of the school. "He was right in my face. He was yelling at me. It was really ugly. He picked on me because I am Latino. That was an attack."

A few feet away, McDonough was arguing with Erica Seigel, a lobbyist with the Maryland Jewish Alliance, who also spoke against the bill. Jamie Kendrick, executive director of the Service Employees International Union Maryland/DC Council, said he thought McDonough was making "inappropriate" remarks, and tried to intervene.

"All of a sudden, he pushed me out of the way, like a running back would give a forearm," Kendrick said. "It was surreal. I'm 5 foot 6 and 150 pounds soaking wet. He certainly has nothing to fear from me and my wire-rimmed glasses."