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FAU Trustee Angela Graham-West Explains Why She Felt Harassed; Students Call for Restraining Order Against Allen West

By Deirdra Funcheon Wed., Apr. 17 2013 at 4:39 PM
Categories: Activism, Allen West
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Today former U.S. Rep. Allen West posted threatening-sounding messages on his Facebook and Twitter accounts, suggesting that Florida Atlantic University students had harassed his wife, Angela Graham-West, a trustee at the school.

This afternoon via phone, Graham-West explained what prompted his message.

"This all started out as an internal thing," she said. Several weeks ago -- before the deal for FAU to accept $6 million from private prison operator GEO Group in exchange for stadium naming rights was cancelled -- two male students "with some group called 'Owlcatraz' entered my office talking about all kinds of crazy stuff, like how I should resign from the board."

Graham-West, who was formerly a business professor at Kansas State University, said they told her secretary "a story" to get past the front desk and entered her office uninvited and without an appointment.



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Allen West Threatens FAU Students on Facebook and Twitter; Says Wife, a Trustee, Has Been Harassed (UPDATED)

By Deirdra Funcheon Wed., Apr. 17 2013 at 2:55 PM
Categories: Allen West
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UPDATE 3:40 p.m.: Angela Graham-West did call to explain why she felt harassed. She indicated that students had come to her work office uninvited and also sent messages to her office calling for her firing. A post with her explanation will be posted shortly.

Here's her side of the story.

Original post: Around noon today, former U.S. representative Allen West posted a message on his Facebook page that sounded like a threat to students at Florida Atlantic University -- even though he wrote, "This is not a threat, it is a promise."

West's wife, Angela Graham-West, sits on the FAU Board of Trustees and is also a financial advisor at the Fort Lauderdale office of Raymond James & Associates.

West's post did not specifically say what prompted him to write the message, which had 16,000 "likes" around 2 p.m.

His wife was reached at work and, sounding flustered, promised to call right back, but did not after about 30 minutes.

Attempts to reach West through the Allen West Guardian Fund and Twitter have so far been unsuccessful.

Here it the text of West's post:

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Allen West, Tea Party Wünderkind, Funnels Campaign Cash to Two New Nonprofits

By Zachary Fagenson Fri., Jan. 25 2013 at 1:26 PM
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What's next for West?
He's baaaaaaack!

Allen West, the outspoken Palm Beach Gardens Tea Party Republican congressman who lost his reelection bid late last year, has shuffled hundreds of thousands of dollars in leftover campaign money to seed the Allen West Foundation and American Legacy Guardians.

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Five Future Career Options Allen West Should Consider

By Chris Sweeney Fri., Nov. 9 2012 at 7:00 AM
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Allen West isn't giving up without a fight. Even though the incumbent Commie hunter lost by 0.8 percent to Patrick Murphy, he's demanding a recount. 

A West Palm Beach court is slated to hear West's case for an injunction today at noon. But his energy will surely be better spent polishing the old résumé and crafting clever cover letters to catch the eyes of future employers. 

Here are five potential career opportunities South Florida's greatest patriot ought to consider.


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Patrick Murphy, Democratic Challenger, Sends Out Fundraising Email: "This Will Make Allen West Mad"

By Rich Abdill Tue., Jun. 26 2012 at 1:50 PM
Categories: Allen West, Politics
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Patrick Murphy has a great campaign tactic to use in the District 18 race against Rep. Allen West -- he can always point out that he isn't Allen West.

Murphy followed West to District 18 after the congressman announced he wouldn't be running in his home district, ol' number 22. Murphy's campaign routinely highlights West's ridiculous rhetoric and won the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's National Grassroots Challenge as a result. And he just sent out a fundraising email aimed right at his favorite narrative: The subject line is "This will make Allen West mad."

Kind of vague, though -- that could be anything.

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Allen West on Education: No More Feds, No More Unions

By Rich Abdill Wed., Jun. 13 2012 at 11:15 AM
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Congressman Allen West gave a 25-minute speech on his 2012 platform over the weekend -- expect more in the coming days. Today, though, we tackle education.

"Washington has a good day when it manages not to screw things up too badly. That is equally true when it comes to education. No one is well-served when the federal bureaucracy tries to impose top-down controls on our schools," West said. "Teachers end up hamstrung, parents end up shut out of the decision-making process, and students, our next generation, end up as collateral damage."

It was at this point he said that teaching at Deerfield Beach High School was worse than working in Afghanistan.
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Allen West Says Teaching at Deerfield Beach High School Was Worse Than Afghanistan

By Rich Abdill Tue., Jun. 12 2012 at 8:00 AM
Categories: Allen West
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Congressman Allen West touched on every issue under the sun in his half-hour of remarks at his campaign kickoff event over the weekend -- we'll be looking at a bunch of them this week, but one thing that stuck out enough to pass on today was the congressman's view of public education, which he says needs to be given back to the parents after being destroyed by teachers' unions and the federal government.

"When it comes to this issue, many of you know I can speak from experience, having taught high school at Deerfield Beach for one year after retiring," West said. "And that was such an enjoyable experience that I volunteered to go to Afghanistan for two and a half years."

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D-Day Was Very Good to Allen West's Campaign Facebook Page

By Rich Abdill Thu., Jun. 7 2012 at 8:01 AM
Categories: Allen West, Everyone on Facebook's Doin' It
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Allen West (and the people working for him) get social media. West was named the most engaging Twitter user in Congress a few months ago, and he's gained 20,000 since earning the title, putting him at more than 56,000 followers.

His campaign Facebook page has more than 96,000 likes and is getting more popular by the day, thanks in no small part to the fancy graphics his staff puts out on a regular basis -- even one with just 12 words and an arrow got more than 1,400 likes and almost 900 shares. And every time somebody likes a post, or -- even better -- shares one, West gets a little more of that precious publicity.

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Former Congressman Mark Foley Still Doling Out Campaign Cash

By Rich Abdill Wed., Apr. 25 2012 at 9:03 AM
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Former Republican Florida Congressman Mark Foley received his last campaign contribution ever on September 28, 2006 -- a $2,100 check from a Palm City physician. The next day, Foley resigned from Congress, disgraced by a scandal over sexually explicit messages the (sort-of) secretly gay congressman had sent to teenaged boys who had previously served as congressional pages.

But Foley resigned with almost $2 million in his campaign coffers -- money that he'd been building up for years, that he wasn't obligated to return to anybody. And, over the past five and a half years, he's managed to not only give out this money to causes (and politicians) of his choosing but to actually grow the fund through investment, creating a self-sustaining campaign fund for a politician who hasn't run for office in more than half a decade.

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz Donates to Allen West Opponent Patrick Murphy (UPDATED)

By Rich Abdill Thu., Apr. 19 2012 at 11:08 AM
Categories: Allen West, Election
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Update, 4/19: Got comment from Wasserman Schultz's camp. Added to the story.

Original post, 4/17:
Between January and the end of March, South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz donated $73,000 to Democratic campaigns across the country. It's not surprising -- she's chair of the Democratic National Committee, and $25,000 of that cash was in a bulk transfer to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

But on March 23, records show, she made one $2,000 donation to a challenger in Florida -- Patrick Murphy, the Democrat who's running against Rep. Allen West.
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