A Maryland-based Tea Party group, “We The People”, was banned from attending a local meet and greet with Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) after being accused of “violent tendencies” by the Carroll County Maryland Democrats.
According to Front Line State, a local blog, the Carroll County Maryland Democrats “have reportedly attempted to use the Sheriff’s department to keep members of a local Tea Party activist group from attending a ‘meet and greet’ with their congressional representative, Chris Van Hollen… at Caroll County Community College (CCCC).”
Michelle Jefferson, a member of We The People, told Front Line State that she was in touch with Major Tom Long of the Carroll County Sheriff’s Department soon after she returned from the Audit the IRS rally that took place in Washington, D.C., last week.
The major informed her that Don West, the recording secretary for the Carroll County Democratic Central Committee, had spoken to Carroll County Community College’s campus security, the county Sheriff’s Department, and the state police, encouraging them to ban the group from the event because of their “violent tendencies.”
“After a 2012 campaign marred by vehicle & property vandalism and a more recent, brazen display of government thuggery by the IRS, the Democrats are at it again,” Dan Bongino, a former Republican senate candidate and Secret Service agent, said in a statement obtained by Breitbart News. “Now they are attempting to use law enforcement to intimidate and silence one of my former volunteers and a female Conservative activist in Carroll County, Md.”
Bongino recently announced he would run for Rep. John Delaney’s (D-Md.) seat in 2014.
According to Front Line State, West later filed an interim peace order against Jefferson, claiming she had engaged in harassment by identifying his name in an email sent to We the People members and sending him an inappropriate text message.
“This breaks my heart to see just how divided my country truly is,” Jefferson said in an email to Breitbart News. “I thought Don West and I were friends — he gave me an estimate to build a deck and we’ve worked together on defeating the proposed incinerator. This kind of hate is tearing apart these great United States of America and it has to stop — it has to stop now.”
