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And for their next trick . . .

Submitted by Jim Downey on December 12, 2009 - 9:48am.

Man, you gotta love the audacity combined with the stupidity:

Tea partyers petition Dem lawmaker to move office to make protests easier

A Christian civil liberties organization on Thursday asked centrist Virginia Rep. Tom Perriello (D) to move his home district office to a location more favorable to protesters.

The Rutherford Institute, which was founded by conservative constitutional lawyer John W. Whitehead, penned a letter to the freshman Perriello citing the concerns of a local tea party group and the University of Virginia College Republicans that the location of his Charlottesville office interferes with their right to protest there.

"Unfortunately, it is your choice of office location that has hindered the ability of citizens to effectively communicate concerning issues of the utmost importance to you, Congress and the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia," wrote Whitehead.

Yeah, and for their next trick, they're going to insist that Perriello's holding office at all is an infringement on their right to elect whomever they want.

I swear, these people will be filing protests with the FEC that in order to have a "fair playing field" in the 2012 presidential election, Obama must appear at all debates against the Republican/Teabagger candidate wearing a ball gag and blindfold.

Sheesh.

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