[Vision2020] Clarkston woman's Comments Become News Sensation

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of the Lewiston Tribune at:

http://www.lmtribune.com/breaking-news/1242/

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Clarkston woman's comments at Tea Party Rally become news sensation

Clarkston's Dianne Capps made national headlines when video from a Tea
Party rally hit the Internet in which she is heard making the claim she
would like to hang U.S. Sen. Patty Murray.

But Capps said her statement was taken out of context in a story run by
KLEW-TV, where she referenced the movie "Lonesome Dove" and its character
Jake Spoon and the parallels between him and Murray.

"What happened to Jake when he ran with the wrong crowd?" Capps said at a
tea party rally at the Asotin County Fairgrounds Saturday. "What happened
to Jake when he ran with the wrong crowd? He got hung. And that's what I
want to do with Patty Murray."

The news story has since received links from blog and news sites,
including the Seattle Post Intelligencer, the Seattle Times, MSNBC and the
Huffington Post.

"They didn't print the whole thing," Capps said of KLEW's coverage, adding
she went on to say people could 'hang' Murray by voting her out of office.
"Patty Murray has been hanging with the wrong crowd. I would hang Patty
Murray by vote. That's the whole point that's missing."

But KLEW news director Greg Meyer said the unedited footage from the Tea
Party rally doesn't have Capps making a statement about hanging Murray
with votes. Prior to the comment, he said, Capps had been talking about
voter registration.

"The raw video shows that it wasn't taken out of context," Meyer said. "I
still contend the coverage was fair. We had no agenda going into it."

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Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

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