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'Kiss My Gay Ass': Calif. Dem After Heckling Arnold

... after interrupting governor's speech by yelling 'You lie!'

By Will McCahill, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 8, 2009 7:33 PM CDT

(Newser) – Slightly different forum, very different personalities, same heckle. And California Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano apparently followed up his “You lie!” interruption of a speech last night in San Francisco by Arnold Schwarzenegger by walking out and telling the Republican governor to “kiss my gay ass.” Ammiano’s defense is that Schwarzenegger crashed a Democratic fundraiser: “This is our house—and it’s like someone came in and took a big dump. He showed up; it was rude.”

Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown insisted that Schwarzenegger had been invited to the event, in a spirit of bipartisanship, and called Ammiano’s take on Rep. Joe Wilson’s interruption of President Obama last month “highly inappropriate.” “I don’t care who it is,” he tells the Chronicle. “It could be George Bush. “You don’t do that. If you don’t wish to be in their presence, then don’t invite them.”

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Tom Ammiano, seated, didn't deny that after interrupting a speech by Arnold Schwarzenegger, he told the governor to "kiss my gay ass." (AP Photo)

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It was a cheap publicity stunt and I think this guy has a problem distinguishing between movies and reality. You don't come uninvited and you don't devalue what the Democratic Party stands for. - Tom Ammiano

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Shannonals

Oct 10, 2009 12:46 PM CDT

Your a hypocrite dontlikeyou. If the GOP behaves like children, i.e., using Blackberries and displaying signs during a Presidential address it's okay, but when the shoe is on the other foot you cry foul. You seriously need to grow up child.

passinthru

Oct 10, 2009 2:48 AM CDT

wow, the quality of "human" that exists on this planet today is staggering. i used to be against violence, but after being on here for only a mere three weeks or so, i can say that i think the majority of people have been dumbed down passed their own self worth. its time to do some house cleaning....so to speak.

Doctor-Zaius

Oct 9, 2009 12:56 PM CDT

Exactly, how far have we sunk as a people? Show some class people.

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'Kiss My Gay Ass': Calif. Dem After Heckling Arnold