Missouri House of Representatives District 98 (soon to be the potential State Senate District 26 winner)'s Brian Nieves (R/TP-Washington, MO) has been under intense scrutiny recently, this time for harassing Shawn Bell, a worker for the rival and former mayor of Washington, MO, Dick Stratman (R)'s campaign, who was endorsed by the outgoing State Senator John Griesheimer (R-Washington).
I wholly believe this man is a menace to Missouri, the Republican Party, and the nation, and thus should be put in a mental institution. He is too far to the right for even Franklin County, Warren County, and Far West STL County, so some Repubs in MO State Senate District 26 will either sit at home or vote for the Democrat Boots Weber or another 3rd party challenger. But the winner will-- sadly-- be Brian Nieves, and all because of Dana Loesch's cronies rigging the ballots in SD26 (and elsewhere in MO/IL) and his minions are motivated to vote.
From Glic's DKos Blog: MO: GOP Whip Accused of Terrorizing Rival's Aide At Gunpoint
Multiple news outlets in Missouri are reporting that current State Representative Brian Nieves, R-Washington, MO, who recently was victorious in the Republican primary race for the 26th District state Senate seat, is being investigated for terrorizing a rival's aide, Shawn Bell, the day after the election.
The 26th District includes part of St. Louis, Warren, and Franklin counties.
Nieves called Bell a "girly man" and other insults on his radio show.
More from the Post:
According to Bell's handwritten police complaint, obtained by the Post-Dispatch, Bell stopped by Nieves' campaign headquarters the day after the election to congratulate an aide there on the victory.
Bell alleges he stepped inside, was grabbed by Nieves and was thrown against a wall. Bell says he looked for help from the aide he was visiting, but the Nieves aide instead "closed the office blinds and locked the door," according to the statement. Nieves then pulled a black gun from his pocket and placed it deliberately on a table, telling Bell that he was going to kill him, according to the sworn statement. Nieves then allegedly head-butted Bell and slapped him several times.
Bell wrote in the complaint that Nieves was apparently worried that Bell was "wearing a wire" so he had Bell strip off his shirt.
Nieves then had Bell call Nieves' wife to apologize for a letter that had been making the rounds during the campaign — a letter of dubious origins that claimed Nieves cheated on his wife, which Nieves denied, according to the complaint.
Nieves accused of terrorizing his GOP rivals at gunpoint.
Victorious GOPer Allegedly Flashes Gun At Defeated Rival's Staffer Over Sex Allegations
Megan Carpentier | August 13, 2010, 5:21PM
The closing days of a GOP primary race for state Senate between state Rep. Brian Nieves and Washington mayor Richard Stratman in Missouri got especially heated and ugly -- but accusations that Nieves committed adultery and paid alleged rapist Rod Jetton as a campaign consultant were nothing compared to what has happened since election day. Nieves, now the GOP nominee, stands accused of physically assaulting Stratman's campaign manager, Shawn Bell, threatening him with a gun, forcing him to strip and threatening the manager's boss.
Bell is seeking a restraining order; Nieves denies the allegations.
Shawn Bell filed his complaint with Washington, Missouri police on August 5, 2010 -- two days after the primary -- claiming that Nieves had first assaulted and the threatened him. (Read the full complaint here.)
TPM Muckracker: Nieves allegedly flashes gun on rival Shawn Bell over sex allegations
Nieves Named in City Police Complaint
Posted: Thursday, August 5, 2010 10:00 am | Updated: 8:44 am, Mon Aug 9, 2010.
Brian Nieves won the Republican Primary race for the 26th District state Senate seat now held by John Griesheimer.
Washington Police Chief Ken Hahn confirmed Friday that his office is conducting a police investigation into allegations against State Rep. Brian Nieves.
Earlier this week, Nieves won the Republican primary race for the 26th District state Senate seat now held by John Griesheimer, Washington.
A complaint against Nieves was filed Wednesday night against Nieves and a report was taken, Hahn told The Missourian. He did not release the name of the man who filed the complaint.
Nieves said he is not aware of the specific nature of the complaint against him, but denied any wrongdoing.
"The case currently is under investigation," Hahn said, noting that he would not comment on specifics contained in the report.
Sources have told The Missourian that the complaint involves an alleged assault and possible felonious restraint and that a handgun may have been displayed.
Washington City Police file a complaint against Teabagger Nieves
This one is from my new blog, Dana Busted, which exposes the lies told by KFTK's Dana Loesch.
Brian "Asshole" Nieves on The Dana Show
On today's edition of Tea Party Radio 97.1 FM's The Dana Show, Brian Nieves claims the altercation was "only a conversation." Only a conversation, my ass! We all know Nutjob Nieves is lying as usual about the incident. He was the one who brutalized Shawn Bell, claimed that the "Jeff City Kingmakers are trying to deny me a possible State Senate seat." Loesch, as usual, agreed with Nieves. I hear that there are rooms reserved in Hell for them two, right next to Rush Limbaugh, Roy Blunt, and Kit Bond.
Fired Up! Missouri has this take on Nieves' appearance on KFTK's The Dana Show.
Nieves: "It Was Not A Pleasant Conversation. But It Was Nothing More Than A Conversation."
Rep. Brian Nieves went on 97.1 FM Talk this afternoon with local loudmouth Dana Loesch to defend himself. On Loesch's show, Nieves said rival campaign staffer Shawn Bell, the man who has filed the police report against Nieves, was trespassing on Nieves' property and that their exchange was "only a conversation." Here's an excerpt:
Here's what I can tell you. What I'm asking everybody to do is simply ask yourself, "Does any of this pass the sniff test?" I don't think it does. First of all, why would someone after running such a viscous, ugly campaign come into my office, trespass into my office and be there for good reasons, if you know what I mean? You know, we're not contending that we had a pleasant conversation with Shawn Bell. It was not a pleasant conversation. But it was nothing more than a conversation.
Later, Nieves directed his ire to unnamed 'kingmakers' -- "What I really think is happening is that someone is pulling Shawn Bell's strings and encouraging him to do this," he said.
I do not believe that Dick Stratman has anything to do with these allegations. Of course, I'm not happy with Dick Stratman because he is the one that brought these people to town in the first place. But I do think there's a delineation here where we have to realize is what's going on now is not up to Dick Stratman...What I really think is happening is that someone is pulling Shawn Bell's strings and encouraging him to do this. And we are going to continue to connect those dots and become more and more public about who those people are who are pulling his strings and pushing his buttons...
There are powers that be. There are kingmakers and powerbrokers in the state of Missouri that very clearly -- this is not black helicopter stuff, this is not conspiracy theory stuff. All of the evidence is black and white. And it is clear. I'm just not at liberty to talk about the details right now. But with five minutes of research a person on their own could look and see who Shawn Bell is associated with and who those people are associated with. And what you find is there are some very high level king makers that are not at all interested in seeing Brian Nieves become a part of the Missouri Senate.
Audio at: Fired Up! Missouri
From DanaBusted.Blogspot.com: Brian Nieves appears on KFTK's The Dana Show
Nieves Announces Legal Fund "To Fight The Machine's False Accusations"
Brian Nieves announced the creation of the "Brian Nieves Special Fund" to "FIGHT the Machine's False accusations!" this afternoon on Facebook.
Monday, Nieves explained what the "Special Fund" is all about:
I was Very Reluctant to set the account up but after ssooo many people said I'd be crazy not to ... We decided to do it! Our expenses are already in the thousands! Checks can be made out to Brian Nieves Special Fund and mailed to P.O. Box 1026 Washington, Mo. 63090 Please know we are NOT rolling over on our back like a submissive dog about this! We are indeed fighting back because what they are doing to me, they WILL do to others if WE let them win but WE will NOT let them win! Please invest with us as you can so we can bring these King Makers, Power Brokers and their Political machine DOWN!!
Brian Nieves announces a legal fund to fight the so-called allegations
Nieves claims Missouri 'kingmakers' seek to destroy his political career
By Jo Mannies, Beacon Political Reporter
Posted 11:50 pm Mon., 08.16.10
At a "prayer vigil" held Monday night by his allies, state Rep. Brian Nieves blamed his legal troubles on unnamed "kingmakers and the powerbrokers in the state of Missouri" who he contends want to block his likely ascension to the Missouri Senate.
"They want to hang me up like a scarecrow," asserted Nieves, R-Washington, to at least 150 people attending a riverfront rally in downtown Washington, Mo. The crowd frequently broke into cheers and standing ovations to show their support.
"The Old Guard (within the GOP) feels threatened," Nieves continued, because he "won't be a lap dog. ... There is no way they will ever control Brian Nieves."
Nieves added that he was confident his enemies will fail because "God has his hand all over this situation."
Nieves addressed the crowd for almost half an hour, offering up his most detailed public defense since he was accused of brandishing a gun and threatening to kill a former top aide to one of Nieves' defeated rivals. The encounter is alleged to have occurred the day after Nieves handily won a four-way Republican primary Aug. 3 for the open 26th District state Senate seat. Nieves is favored to win the post in the Nov. 2 election.
Nieves has been accused of violently accosting the aide, Shawn Bell, who says he showed up at Nieves' office to congratulate him. Bell had worked previously for Nieves, but had served as campaign manager for rival Richard Stratman, the former mayor of Washington who had the support of outgoing state Sen. John Griesheimer, R-Washington. Stratman finished third in the primary.
Bell has filed a complaint with police alleging that Nieves head-butted him, displayed a gun, threatened to kill him and made him partially strip. Bell also has gone to court seeking a protection order against Nieves, and has hired prominent lawyers in the state's three largest cities to handle possible civil or criminal suits.
Nieves noted that Bell had returned shortly after the initial visit to retrieve sunglasses he'd left behind. Nieves also asserted that it was Bell's lawyer who had asked to delay the hearing on the protection order until Sept. 2; the hearing initially had been set for last Thursday.
Nieves complains that the "GOP Kingmakers in Jeff City want me to be their lapdog"
Dana Loesch and Michelle Moore on the Nievesgate, via The Dana Show:
Is anybody else worried about Brian Nieves?
by: WillyK
Tue Aug 17, 2010 at 14:12:58 PM CDT
By now most Missourians have probably read about Rep. Brian Nieves (R-Washington), Republican candidate for the the 26th District Senate Seat, who allegedly assaulted Shawn Bell, a campaign aide for his primary rival, Republican Richard Stratman. According to Bell, Nieves held him at gunpoint, forcing him to undress and humiliate himself while Nieves raved about his putative misdeeds during the primary.
Now Nieves has gone off again - this time blasting the state GOP at a "prayer vigil" held by supporters Monday night. He used the opportunity to blame his legal troubles on the "kingmakers and the powerbrokers in the state of Missouri" who want to keep him out of government because he ""won't be a lap dog. ... There is no way they will ever control Brian Nieves."
As in his earlier emails to supporters concerning the Bell affair, he employed grandiose, self-inflating rhetoric to make the case that he is being persecuted by vague, corrupt powers - unnamed state GOP powerbrokers who want to halt his "ascension" to the Senate seat, although Nieves knows that he will prevail because no less than "God has his hand all over this situation." Compare this to the over-the-top tone of one of the emails he has been sending out:
We all know that the 'Old Guard' is very much threatened by all of us who will NOT bow down to The Machine and they are willing to literally destroy a man's life to make sure nobody else gets the bright idea of standing up to them!
As for the Tea Party? Certainly we know that there is no real concern for Nieves health in the rantings of Tea Party publicity hound Dana Loesch. Loesch's only contribution so far is to declare that Shawn Bell, a well-established Republican political figure, is a "dishonest Democratic operative," coupled with a little of the usual entertaining dreck that she is so good at manufacturing. However it's difficult not to worry be disturbed by Nieves' rank-and-file Tea Party supporters who respond to his ravings with applause, and have no hesitation in cheering his over-the-top assertions, and even in naming the names he hesitates to mention:
Nieves a danger to Missouri? Even more so than Blunt.
Brian Nieves Refers to Assault Rifle as "The Nancy Pelosi Special"
Republican State Representative Brian Nieves, known for extremist antics and alleged to have assaulted the staffer for his Republican Primary rival (pulling a gun on the staffer Sean Bell, slapping and head-butting Bell while claiming he was going to kill him, forcing him to strip and lie and the floor, and using the n-word repeatedly) earlier in the year referred to an assault rifle as "the Nancy Pelosi Special" on his radio program The Patriot Enclave. Nieves was discussing the fact that FiredUp! Missouri had earlier posted a clip of him when he was discussing an assault rifle, which he referred to as "the Nancy Pelosi special," and suggested that FiredUp had referred to him as an "extremist." Here's the new video where he uses the term "Nancy Pelosi Special":
On The Patriot Enclave, Brian Nieves calls the firearm the "Nancy Pelosi Special"
Dana Loesch Calls Victim of Alleged Assault a "Pansy" Who Should Be Slapped and Thrown Through Glass
Last week, campaign staffer Shawn Bell filed a police report claiming he was slapped, forced to strip, and told he was going to die by Missouri Republican Representative and tea party favorite Brian Nieves (who also reportedly used the N-word repeatedly during his tirade). Nieves was infuriated because he believed Bell was responsible for an email sent out claiming that Nieves had had affairs with several lobbyists while he was in the Missouri House. In a amazing catch by FiredUp Missouri, Loesch reacted to this incident by saying that if Bell was responsible for the email, "in my opinion, you deserve to be slapped, that's just my opinion, and like Michelle, I'd have probably thrown him through a window too. I don't think that's cool. And then don't gripe about it and whine about it like a pansy."
Dana Loesch, being the imbecelic moron that she is, called Bell a "pansy."
Nieves To Supporters: "This Is A 100% Totally Frivolous Case With NO Merit"
Update: Today's hearing was postponed until September 2.
Rep. Brian Nieves sent supporters a long email last night stating that allegations made by rival campaign staffer Shawn Bell are "this is a 100% totally frivolous case" -- just hours before a court hearing on a protection order sought by Bell against Nieves. In the message, Nieves expresses thanks for his wife's ability to withstand watching "her husband was slandered, vilified and debased for months," declares that "We are NOT Backing Down!"
"We all know that the 'Old Guard' is very much threatened by all of us who will NOT bow down to The Machine and they are willing to literally destroy a man’s life to make sure nobody else gets the bright idea of standing up to them!" he writes. "Please know I am writing this all by myself at my kitchen table at almost 11pm on Wed. the 11th with no help from an attorney or anybody else! These are just MY words to you because I believe you deserve to know at least some of what’s happening!"
Frivolous claim, my ass!