Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Elect Thugs for Higher Office
Staff is supposed to get between the heckler and the candidate to allow the candidate to walk off without having any nasty pictures show up on the networks. Instead:
A physical confrontation caught on tape broke out Tuesday morning in the lobby of the Omni Hotel in downtown Charlottesville between aides to Republican Senator George Allen and a person identified as Mike Stark, a man who has spent the past several months following Allen around the campaign trail and peppering him with some hard-hitting questions.
Stark, an ex-marine who is currently a law student at the University of Virginia, showed up at a campaign rally for Allen and was tackled and put into a choke hold by aides to the Republican senator for allegedly asking Allen what his staff claims were multiple inappropriate questions about Allen's wife.
In an interview Tuesday afternoon with a reporter for the website TalkingPoints Memo, Stark said he was "within four feet" of Allen when he started firing off questions.
From the film, it's pretty evident that if Stark files an assault charge, he will prevail.
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Staff is supposed to get between the heckler and the candidate to allow the candidate to walk off without having any nasty pictures show up on the networks. Instead:
Aw, but beatdowns are so much more fun!
I mean, just look at Iraq.
Aw, but beatdowns are so much more fun!
I mean, just look at Iraq.
I tend to think that stunt will cost Allen the election, Eli. This is a guy who is supposed to be a pro, but he doesn't even know how to handle a heckler.
That's the problem with the Pubs. They're completely incompetent. They can't handle the real work of governing, of doing things.
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That's the problem with the Pubs. They're completely incompetent. They can't handle the real work of governing, of doing things.
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