Over at The Albany Project, acosta has a first-person account of what it was like outside the Murphy/Gibson debate in North Greenbush Thursday night.
In two words, not pretty:
"I showed up with friends to the visibility outside the Murphy v. Gibson debate this past Thursday at WMHT in support of Congressman Murphy. It was terrifying.
"There were much more than 100, possibly 150, Gibson supporters versus our small group of 25 or so Murphy supporters. They were just as nasty, disrespectful and vitriolic as their counterparts across the country. They shouted at us and over us. They approached us and went after us personally with awful comments and even veiled threats.
"When Congressman Murphy came out to greet us, they were disrespectful and yelled at him inches from his face. He was calm and cool. One protester felt triumphant after Scott went inside and shouted "eh, he's scared. Look at him shaking in his boots." Wait, was that his goal? To intimidate? So much for democracy. Move to Afghanistan if you enjoy that tactic."
Gibson is the tea party candidate in NY-20, and his angry supporters seem to be channelling Crazy Carl Paladino in the thuggish harassment department.
Didn't help Paladino much, and this won't help Gibson, either.
Because most voters do not like thuggish street bullies.
When you have nothing to offer but anger hate, this is what you get from your supporters.
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