Posted on 09/26/2006 7:18:39 PM PDT by freespirited
One of Virginia's best-known political analysts said Tuesday that he had never personally heard Sen. George Allen use racial epithets, but insisted claims by former Allen teammates and acquaintances are valid.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said in an e-mail to The Associated Press, "I didn't personally hear GFA (Allen's initials) say the n-word. ...
Also in interviews with the AP and Salon.com late Sunday, [former teammate Ken] Shelton claimed that on a hunting trip to Louisa County in 1973 or 1974, Allen stuffed the severed head of a female deer into the oversized mailbox of a black household near Bumpass, Va., 40 miles east of the university. ...
Allen's campaign released statements from four ex-teammates defending the senator and rejecting Shelton's claims.
Two Louisa County sheriff's deputies who were on the force in the early '70s said in interviews Tuesday that they recall no complaints about severed animal heads.
Retired Lt. Robert Rigsby said he was in charge of investigations in the early '70s, and any such report would have gone through him.
"I think that's a myth," Rigsby said.
Another veteran officer, Deputy William Seay, also could recall no such incident.
Authorities said Tuesday they did not know if records from so long ago would be preserved.
A search of Louisa County's weekly newspaper, The Central Virginian, for the years 1972 through 1974 yielded no account of a severed animal head being discovered in a mailbox during the months that traditionally constitute deer season, October through January.
The leader of the Louisa County chapter of the NAACP, Stewart Cooke, also said in a telephone interview that he had not heard of such an incident, but added that he had not lived in Louisa County at the time. He refused to comment further.
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ping a ding ding
I see, fake but accurate.
Senator Allen needs to take a lesson from President Bush and get HIS message out while avoiding or ignoring all these distractions.
Allright now, somebody's pulling my leg...
Next up: Allen hunted out of season.
As a Virginian, I'm getting sick of candidates from the South being stereotyped as ignorant racists. It's getting tired, Dems. Find something new, and a little less predictable.
Actually, Dick Morris said on Hannity and Colmes tonight that BECAUSE Shelton is a DOCTOR, we HAVE to believe what hs says, as well as Larry Sabato.
I have never heard such a stupid remark in my life...like doctor's don't LIE???
pfffffffft
Nope. Bumpass, VA is right where Bumpass Rd. crosses the railroad tracks. It's a big bump.
I think Sabato lives right where Dumbass Rd. crosses the railroad tracks.
ALLEN WAS IN MCGREEVEY's LOVE NEST
LOL!
"Next up: Allen hunted out of season."
LOL!
....and clubs baby seals. ;)
M.D......Megalomania Designation.
The well educated are human, too. Meaning....they're as corrupt, egotistical, fallible, neurotic and prone to self promotion as any other human being.
"ALLEN IS ANNA NICHOLES BABYS FATHER"
Careful, this may be on Larry King tomorrow night.
While their momma seals are watching, no less!
Two things here:
1) I'm a bit sensitve about jokes like those cause I'm fighting this in the trenches.
2) Some jackass over at Kos or RaisingKaine will take these jokes and post them as "fact" tomorrow.
That's all I'm sayin'.
he was also the one who bribed Chris Wallace to ask a tough question of former prez Bill Clinton.
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