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April 20, 2007 05:13 PM UTC

A Stink Bomb, Maybe

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  • by: Colorado Pols

As the Longmont Daily Times-Call reported yesterday:

Rep. Marilyn Musgrave’s former district director testified in a Weld County court on Wednesday that workers in her Greeley office initially believed a congressional mailer, wrapped around dog feces and stuck in the office door last year, was a bomb.

B.J. Nikkel was traveling with Musgrave, R-Fort Morgan, in eastern Colorado on May 31 when a staff member called to tell her that something was found in the office that could be a bomb. It turned out to be a poop-laden Musgrave mailer.

Former University of Northern Colorado professor Kathleen Ensz faces a misdemeanor charge of criminal use of a noxious substance for leaving the mailer at Musgrave’s office.

When Ensz was charged, Musgrave’s campaign office issued a press release trying to connect her Democrat opponent Angie Paccione to the incident during the 2006 congressional race. Musgrave won the election in November.

Ensz’s defense attorneys say her depositing the mailer is protected under freedom of speech laws…

We actually think it’s vandalism. And unsanitary. But we’re hardly the final authority on such things, so here’s a poll.

Is "depositing" a politician's mailer full of dog crap on their office door a matter of "free speech?"

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16 thoughts on “A Stink Bomb, Maybe

  1. given that Musgraves’ initial mailing was, as all of her mailings are, loaded with crap, it is an understandable and even witty response.

    I must admit though, much as I loathe Marilyn, Ensz crossed a line.

        1. Hopefully it’s beneath us.

          It’s be worth a laugh if they used my teenage standby and put it in a bag and lit the bag on fire and rang the doorbell (with appropriate video capturing of the event, of course).

          Who wouldn’t like to see a politician – ANY politician stomping out a bag full of fresh poo?

          1. touchee, L.B……………that one transcends partisan boundaries.  I would laugh my ass off if it were either Lamborn or DeGette stomping out the smoldering shit!

        2. I doubt Ms. Entz is laughing now, specially with having to pay two attorneys to try to get her out of having to potentially serve jail time.

          If it’d really been a true and legal political statement as she claims, she wouldn’t have minded being linked to the act.  In this case, she scratched her name off the mailing trying to remain anonymous, not being sophisicated enough to know the kind of information contained within bar codes (which she didn’t scratch off).

          Come on, Ms. Entz, just cop a plea bargain, get a slap on the hand and do a little community service.  And, in the future, I’d recommend trying to limit your demonstrations of free speech to less smelly acts of protest.  Although this may be fun for the reporters/editors who’ve enjoyed countless new ways to write the headlines on this, don’t continue to waste yours and taxpayer time and money with your ridiculous defense tactic.

  2. Not in this case, apparently, but charges could be filed if someone wanted to.  Unless, maybe, she shipped it as Hazardous Materials with double 100 pound new cardboard, multiple forms, etc. 

    Or maybe it would fall under ORM (Other Restricted Materials.)

    1. may still be, don’t know, called dog doo.com.  This guy had three dogs – large, medium, small, and would send his dog’s shit (whichever size you specify) in the mail for you to people you have a beef with.  They guaranteed anonymity, which I don’t really think they could deliver on. 

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