Brian Nieves

Brian Nieves' latest Facebook rant, preserved here for posterity: "Veterans, Patriots, Members of our Disabled Community as well as any and all reasonable people .... All I ask is for you to read, and see with your own eyes, the extreme HATRED the missourian and the Miller family have spewed about me and then read my reasoned comment that starts out 'Is it Easy to Visit Our Capitol.' When you read the Extreme, Hate Filled Blathering of Mr. Miller who happens to own the missourian, you'll see why our Disabled Veterans and friends who are disabled in general, may never get sufficient parking made available to them. The Extreme Hatred and Immaturity, the downright loathing you'll read in Mr. Miller's attack piece absolutely makes my point! Don't mess with the High and Mighty Press or you will be CRUSHED! I am proud to stand with our Disabled Veterans and I, for one, believe our Disabled Veterans in particular, as well as our disabled community in general, should get the close up parking over the Elite Press! If you agree, let the missourian know! Cancel subscriptions, write letters to the editor etc etc etc..."

Just another totally normal email newsletter from a state Senator. 

From: Brian Nieves
Date: February 2, 2012 6:07:42 PM CST
Subject: Access to Elected Officials...

Is it Easy to visit Our State capitol?...

          One of the things I think all Reps and Senators look forward to is when actual “Real People,” folks from back home, come to visit us. My office is one where constituents are welcomed and encouraged to visit BUT unfortunately there are certain segments of our population who have difficulty doing so. Why? In addition to the challenges inherent to a 100+ year old building, we also have the challenge of limited parking. Our capitol building houses 163 Representatives and 34 Senators as well as multiple members of the executive branch. On any given day there are many, sometimes hundreds, of visitors who need to visit with their elected officials and have their voices heard. Over the last ten years I’ve become increasingly upset to see persons with disabilities, particularly those who became disabled in the service of our great nation, having to park blocks from the capitol and walk long distances to get to the building! I have, on multiple occasions, quietly filed legislation to correct this problem by changing the way parking is reserved at our capitol but have received little or no support. You may wonder why our politicians would resist fixing this obvious problem and I’ll tell you why… The only way to expand handicap parking is to reduce or eliminate the premium, reserved parking held for members of the press. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard legislators indicate they’re unwillingness to “tangle” with or get in to a battle of sorts, with the press! Legislators are, with good reason, afraid to upset the press and typically try to avoid doing so. Why? Very simple, have you ever heard the old adage, “Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel?” There is a very very good reason that adage is so well known and I can tell you from personal experience that when you tangle with the press, it gets ugly! Several members of the press have written ugly, insulting and downright attacking articles, editorials, and opinion pieces in the recent days since I filed my expansion of handicap parking bill. Our very own Bill Miller Sr. and a Saint Louis reporter named Tony Messenger have written “Hit Pieces” about me filing my parking fix that are so ugly that many people read them and immediately called me to express how sad they were to see members of the press act like such bullies! Mr. Miller’s article was entitled, in big bold print, “Nieves is an Embarrassment” and it only got worse from there. Both of these so called “News Reporters” had not written anything about me for a long time but WHAM! As soon as I file a bill to replace the press parking with handicap parking, they suddenly feel the need to attack attack attack! Do I feel like a victim? Not at all. Do I feel intimidated by the obvious attempts to bully and cajole? Not at all. Will I be forced by the press to sit silent while our disabled veterans have to walk from two blocks away so that healthy, able bodied members of the press park right up front? Never!

The Washington Missourian has had enough of Brian Nieves junk.  In a new must-read editorial from Editor Bill Miller:

We don't usually refer to "reform" in the sense of an elected official. The word usually is used in regard to laws and proposed legislation. But today we are using it in regard to our State Sen. Brian Nieves, who has proven to be an embarrassment to the citizens of our senatorial district.

For a brief period, he had been quiet and we were naive enough to think maybe he had "reformed" somewhat from his usual unsenatorial-like conduct. We were wrong!

Senator Brian Nieves continues his campaign to restore dignity and honor to the Missouri State Senate. 

Brian Nieves likes it Hard Core.

-- Forwarded message --
From: Brian Nieves 
Date: Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:24 PM
Subject: 2nd Annual, 2nd Amendment Freedom Rally & Gun Show!!
To: 

Calling All Patriots ... Join Senator Brian Nieves for our 2nd Annual, 2nd Amendment Freedom Rally & Gun Show!

Saturday, Oct. 1st from 10a-4p at the Franklin County Baptist Association Building. Located in Union, Mo. at 785 Butterfield Dr.   The building is easy to find on Hwy 47 between Union & St. Clair.

Top Door Prize of the day ... Your choice of a Glock 23 or 27 - The G23 & G27 are Brian's personal favorites for conceal carry and you may end up taking one home!

Come Celebrate with the Senator who may very well be the Missouri Senate's most Hard Core Supporter of our God Given Right to Protect Ourselves and the 2nd Amendment that acknowledges that Personal Right!

Many of you joined us last year for this Very Unique Event so you know how much fun it is.

* Patriot Booths
* Vendor & Display Booths
* Guns Guns and more GUNS!
* Local 2nd Amendment Celebrities
* Live Outdoorsman Demonstrations
* Good Food, Good Fun, Festivities & Friends
* AR-15 and other "Black Gun" demonstrations
* Come select that new or used gun you'd like to buy
* Did we mention there will be Guns Guns & more GUNS!??!

More from the Department of Odd Commercial Solicitations Sent to Campaign Email Lists: 

--- Forwarded message ---
From: Brian Nieves <_______@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:32 PM
Subject: Brian's Current Radio Promo...

Hi Folks,

In our continued effort to keep "The Patriot Enclave" on the air, I'm asking you to think of any Business, Church, Club, Organization, Group or Concept that could benefit from the credibility that only mass media, namely Radio, can acheive! Please send any and all referals to me OR maybe YOU have something you want promoted On Air? Jump on the air with us on AM1350, KWMO - Washington's Talk Station in Washington Mo.

Give me a call or email me Right Away as this is a Limited Time, Limited Quantity Offer!    314.324.____

I'm doing a Special Patriot Enclave Package that would normally cost over $1,000 per month for just $189/month! You can buy as many or as few months as you want at that price but it is truly a Limited Time, Limited Quantity offer.

Heres how it works.....

More personal enrichment opportunities blasted out to his full email list...

-- Forwarded message --
From: Brian Nieves <___@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:48 PM
Subject: Keeping up with Brian...
To: __ @gmail.com

What a Busy Busy Summer this is turning out to be!

Julie's & my oldest, Alexandra, is now 20 years old! Will someone PLEASE tell me how that happened?! Moriah is about to turn 15 and Victor just turned 12! There is never a dull moment in the Nieves home and we love it that way.

Please allow me to give you a personal and campaign update...

Things are going well at the station (KWMO, AM1350) in Washington, Mo. - Ad sales are Way Up, Listenership is WAY Up and Dave, Michelle, Brad, Jim, Josh, Butch, Eric and myself are having a Blast!

Our Campaign and fundraising activities have been on the back burner but there are a few things I'd like to tell you about and ask you to participate in. Please keep in mind that ANY State Senator who wants to be viable Must constantly be in fund raising mode! We always try to think of ways to raise the "Big Bucks" as well as things that anybody can participate in. I have two events to tell you about - One is a "Big Bucks" event and the other is something EVERYBODY can be a part of!

Here goes:

Shawn Bell's petition against Brian Nieves, as filed in Franklin County.  

Shawn Bell, the GOP staffer involved in the now-infamous dust-up with Sen. Brian Nieves after the August 2010 primary, filed a personal injury suit against the Senator in Franklin County today. 

The Case.net data for the suit (Case 11AB-CC00142) indicates that Bell's petition accuses Nieves of "false imprisonment, "assault" and "intentional infliction of emotional distress." 

BREAKING NEWS FROM BRIAN NIEVES: "The two of us [me and Jim Lembke] each have a spine and other parts of the male anatomy that most people don't have when they serve in the Senate."

The Beacon's Jo Mannies has a good new rundown of Sen. Brian Nieves' ongoing implosion, including details on a formal complaint submitted to the Senate's Committee on Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics by three retired teachers in Franklin County.

Three critics of state Sen. Brian Nieves, R-Washington, have filed a formal complaint about his behavior with the state Senate's Committee on Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics.

The three retired teachers -- residents of Nieves' 26th District --earlier had complained in the Washington Missourian newspaper about a combative meeting they had with the senator about a month ago in the state Capitol.

During that meeting, Nieves had taken issue with an earlier letter to editor written by retired teacher Tom Smith, who is among the complainants, along with Lloyd Klinedinst and Frank Rogan. According to the three, Nieves shouted expletives and was abusive as he made clear his objections to Smith. (Click here and here and here to read their published accounts of the meeting.)

In today's Post-Dispatch:

Before last November, when Brian Nieves was merely a Missouri state representative from Washington, few people in the state Capitol took him very seriously...

But last November, Mr. Nieves was elected to the state Senate, representing Franklin, Warren and parts of west St. Louis counties. Since then, his antics have grown exponentially, and they've been very public...

After being called out by [retired teacher Tom Smith] and others for his boorish behavior, he turned even more boorish, going on his radio show to call his constituent 'subhuman" and "evil," and mentioning that he would do anything in his Second Amendment-protected power to defend his family.

We get it, Mr. Nieves. You have a gun. Many guns. You are willing to use them.

That's what makes his statement in a letter to the Missourian perhaps the most offensive thing he's done yet. In defending his wild antics, Mr. Nieves compared himself to U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona Democrat shot Jan. 8 at an event in her home district.

Yes, in one breath Mr. Nieves says there's "only one way" to deal with people like Mr. Smith, and then he compares himself to a member of Congress nearly killed by a person with a gun.

Franklin County Dems' Randy Phillips: "The following is a brief excerpt of the Nieves Concerto in B Major, a lilting, lyrical arrangement featuring the vocal styling of local loud mouth, Sen. Brian Nieves, accompanied by violinist, Claude Schmieckeldorf Johannson III. One can hear Brian’s true, Christian, family values bubbling up from the depths of his soul..."

Via Reboot Congress. Try not to vomit on your keyboard.

I've grown numb to Brian Nieves' freedom-loving grammar and capitalization, but this is the first time I can recall ever receiving an email from a candidate asking me to buy things for his personal enrichment.  

Behold: 

--- Forwarded message ----
From: Brian Nieves <briannieves@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:27 PM
Subject: Personal Update on Brian...
To: [______]@gmail.com

A New set of Adventures are in front of me...

     Sometimes I have to pinch myself to believe how Blessed I am! I have a Beautiful Wife and three Truly Amazing Kids. God has Blessed me with a Great Family, Important Work, and some of the most Gracious Friends a man could Ever Hope for. Thank You ... Really, Thank You for being a Faithful Friend - I will never be able to express how much I appreciate it.

     As the title of this writing implies... I am setting out on some new adventures and if I may, I'd like to share the excitement with you.

Remember last week when we noted that three constituents of Brian Nieves wrote the Washington Missourian about an unpleasant and unprofessional meeting they had in their Senators' office?  

Well today he wrote The Missourian to let readers know that he's worried about being shot in the head like Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona because a constituent wrote an "ugly letter to the editor" (his words).  From Nieves' response: 

Yes, he went there. 

I emailed Brian Nieves last week asking him to explain his radio and Facebook smearing of his constituent, Tom Smith, asking him if (a) it's appropriate to call constituents "sub-human" and other names, (b) what he meant by "there is only ONE Way to deal" with people like Smith and (c) whether he saw himself as a role model for youth in his community. 

Here's what he said, via Facebook

Thnx Sean... If I have to explain to you why it's wrong for a man to tell the world when another man's children will be home alone, I'm afraid you wouldn't understand anyway. I've been Extremely clear that it was not his criticism of me that I find Sub-Human but instead it is his disregard for the safety of my family. Anyway, I'm not sure why I've even wasted this much time responding to you because you've already proven you just won't ever "Get it." I see from your picture that you may be a Father? Tell me this .... If you ever become a well know, public figure - will you want people to tell the world exactly when you will be out of state?

UPDATE: St. Louis Activist Hub has video of Nieves' extended reaction on his Thursday radio program.

The Senator from Franklin has lost his mind on Facebook again, this time complaining at length about a constituent named Tom Smith of Washington. 

The target Brian Nieves' ire is Tom Smith of Washington, described by the Senator as "just another Liberal NEA Activist" who is also "Sub-Human and, in my humble opinion, a Very Dangerous man who must be shown for what he is." 

What did Smith do wrong?  According to Nieves, he "advertises when I'll be out of state" and "put my family members at risk" by "put[ting] information in the paper telling people future dates when I'll be out of state."  Presumably, Nieves is writing about this letter to the Washington Missourian published a full month ago that includes the following line:

We learned he was preparing to go to Cincinnati on April 28 and 29 to attend the American Legislative Exchange (an ultra right-wing think tank) and was very excited about going.

But what if I told you Nieves' mad ravings began just a few hours after a trio of new letters to the editor were published in the Missourian yesterday afternoon, one of which was from the same Tom Smith?  The three letters offer more details about the May 11 confrontation in Nieves' office first reported on May 19 by Show Me Progress' Sarah Jo, and are headlined as follows:

• Alleges State Senator Acted Like a Playground Bully by Tom Smith, Washington
• Observed Alleged Bullying in Office by Lloyd Klinedinst, Villa Ridge
• Another Allegation of Bullying by Frank Rogan, Pacific

You can read the letters and Show Me Progress post and reach your own conclusions about what went down in Nieves' office on May 11. 

You can also read all of what Nieves wrote about Smith below the jump and reach your own conclusions about Nieves' fitness for public office. A few lowlights:

• I wish I could explain the Evil I saw in this man (should I even call him that) when I asked him why he would do such a thing!!
   
• What will he do next?? I'm glad he doesn't know the code to my garage door opener!!
   
• He is a Bully and a Thug and there is only ONE Way to deal with the kind of person who takes no remorse in making women and children feel threatened!
   
• Some believe I should dismiss my God Given obligation to protect my family! Should I passively allow Thugs to put my family members at risk? What say you??
   
• He got exactly the treatment he deserved and all you gotta do is look at recent headlines about what crazy people are doing to elected officials and people of noteriaty and you'll know why my wife and kids were upset about his actions. I was not a gentleman and he will never be allowed in my office again. He is Sub-Human and, in my humble opinion, a Very Dangerous man who must be shown for what he is.

Full excerpts and screenshots below the jump.