Tea Party Candidate arrested On Drug Charges

[sufrommich]

Ezell Harris, a Florida conservative who launched his campaign for Orlando City Council at a Tea Party rally, has been arrested on drug trafficking charges.

Jail records show he is being held on four counts: trafficking in hydrocodone, dispensing illegal drugs without a license, unlawful use of a two-way radio, and possession of drug paraphernalia.


Details of the case were not immediately available from the Orlando Police Department, though investigators believe he was selling Lorcet and Vicodin - brand names of hydrocodone -- that had been prescribed to him. According to his website, he served as a military policeman in the U.S. Army for three years in the late 1970s, and was classified as disabled in 1980.

In his campaign platform, Harris said: "Prescription drugs have replaced cocaine and other illicit substances as the leading cause of drug abuse deaths in Florida, a new study says. Despite this, the state has no prescription drug monitoring program, and the authors of the study say Florida must do more to curb the abuse of legal medication ... The report makes it clear that lax oversight is allowing Florida's legal drug abuse problem to grow out of control."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/13/ezell-harris-tea-party-ca_n_357003.html


Rush's dealer?

[provis99]

1. Snark

typical Republican hypocrite of the highest order.

[madmax]

2. Why am I not surprised? n/t

[KansDem]

3. Hey, it's a different kind of "tea!"

:smoke:

...let's party!

[BR_Parkway]

4. Is Rush at the other end of the 2 way radio?

[EmilyAnne]

14. Yes. They were planning a little stag weekend in the Dominican Republic.

This guy was supposed to provide the hydrocodone and Rush was bringing the Viagra.

[FLyellowdog]

5. Is this for real?

Are these people just totally and completely insane? I'd say yes.Repubs are such hypocrites.

[sufrommich]

7. Yes, they are totally , completely insane and hypocrites. nt

[notadmblnd]

16. I don't think they consider themselves hypocrits

I think they consider themselves exempt. Considering the "family" says that knowing and hanging out with Jesus allows you to get away with anything since they're the new "chosen" people of gawd. Does anyone know if he's a member of the C Street Family?

[goclark]

6. You can't make this stuff up ~ The Gift that keeps on giving nt

[krispos42]

8. Ah, so that taht wasn't "tea" in the teabag...

:rofl:

[Skidmore]

9. Please, please, please let Schuster, Big Ed, or KO put this one out there

tonight. Please, please, please, Jon Stewart. From my lips to the ear of the media gods.

[Warpy]

10. Prescription pill heads are behind a massive wall of denial.

There is just no way to get through to them that addiction is addiction, whether it's a country club matron popping a chemical cocktail to get through a day or a junkie shooting up in an alley.

Their prognosis for getting into and staying in recovery is very grim. Most of the time they just change drugs.

[Ozymanithrax]

11. Clearly, he is a Libertarian...

involved in a little free market capialism.

Fortunatly, he should be able to continue his bussiness activities in jail.

[groundloop]

12. The evidence was fabricated and the arrest was for political reasons

:sarcasm:

[EmilyAnne]

15. He's being Palinized! nt

[JuniperLea]

20. Haha!

Totally!

[yellowcanine]

13. oops.

[The Midway Rebel]

17. This is more evidence of this nation's growing *drug problem

* prescription drug problem

[sufrommich]

18. It's more evidence of the right wing's hypocrisy problem. nt

[JuniperLea]

19. Most of us could write these stories before they happen...

It doesn't take much intuition at all; a mediocre memory will do.

[havocmom]

21. Someone telling the crazy party pushes that bucking the status quo = trouble?

They want a part of the population all up in our faces, but they don't really want the wackos to have real power. The tea-baggers are just the latest malleable group to be exploited by the same ol class rulers.

The Fundies' usefulness has fallen off, so new tools were purchased.

[zbdent]

22. By the standards set by the Republicans regarding ACORN ...

the Tea Parties must be surrounded and thrown into jail, and anybody associated with them have absolutely no credibility (Glenn Beck) ...

wait ... Glenn Beck doesn't have any credibility anyway!

[zbdent]

23. By the standards set by the Republicans regarding ACORN ...

the Tea Parties must be surrounded and thrown into jail, and anybody associated with them have absolutely no credibility (Glenn Beck) ...

wait ... Glenn Beck doesn't have any credibility anyway!