Former Gubernatorial Candidate Connolly arrested

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) _ The lawyer who divulged President Bush’s drunken-driving arrest days before the 2000 election was arrested at gunpoint today over a Halloween stunt.

Police say Tom Connolly was wearing a terrorist costume complete with a plastic assault rifle while trying to make a political statement for passing motorists on Interstate 295 in South Portland. Police arrested him this morning and charged him with criminal threatening, a misdemeanor. Police said initial cash bail was set at 540 dollars.

Police say Connolly was wearing an Osama bin Laden outfit replete with a plastic dynamite belt, plastic grenades and a replica of an AK-47 assault rifle. He was carrying a sign that said “I love TABOR,” a reference to the Taxpayer Bill of Rights on the ballot a week from today. But South Portland Police Chief Ed Googins says one of the people who saw it thought it said “I love the Taliban.”

Only a liberal could seriously equate low taxes to terrorism.

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