Lauren Pierce, the University of Texas Republican student leader who described assassinating Obama as “tempting” in a tweet Wednesday, had planned to attend a conference of the rightwing pro-Israel group StandWithUs last weekend.
The StandWithUs conference was in Santa Monica. 150 students attended. I don’t know if Pierce was there. But this is her Nov. 2 note on the facebook page of the Univ of Texas College Republicans, saying she wouldn’t be able to make a Nov. 12 Republican committee meeting in Texas:
Lauren Pierce I will be in Santa Monica for the Stand With Us Conference (Pro-Israel advocacy group) but I’m sure this will be a great event! Have fun y’all!
I have emailed StandWithUs seeking to learn whether Lauren Pierce was at the conference.
One thing for sure, it was a red-meat conference. Steven Emerson, the television expert on national security, was at the conference, per StandWithUs. So were Jon Voigt and Judea Pearl (Daniel Pearl’s father). So was settler advocate Itamar Marcus.
A student at UC Irvine, tweeted that Pierce had a fellowship with the group. StandWithUs tweeted that she did not.
Update: We received the following image via Twitter which would seem to indicate Pierce attended the conference —
So priority #1 is Israel. Priority #2 is the Republican party.
Zionists have strange bedfellows, from neo-Nazis to white supremacists and religious fanatic nutjobs.
But, you know, remember the Holocaust.
In a few years, we’ll be calling her Congresswoman Pierce.
water seeks its own level.
this is on his twitter account
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Matan Lurey
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@-Mondoweiss She was at the conference, 100% confirmed: http://cl.ly/1o1W1P3L1d1J1t2a1V1n (via #InFocus2011 hashtag).
check out the link
she wrote
She is just an ignorant, dumb-blond-bimbo, who thinks that she actually knows something, because she was, apparantely, told that by some ( equally ignorant).
Another Rachel Abrams in making.