Liberal Blogger Taken Into Custody

AP ^ | November 4, 2006 | MATTHEW BARAKAT

[West Coast Conservative]

A liberal blogger who was manhandled by supporters of Sen. George Allen this week was handcuffed by authorities and escorted from another rally Saturday after an Allen backer claimed the man pushed him to the ground.

Mike Stark told The Associated Press that sheriff's deputies detained and released him. He was not charged.

"I'll own this town," Stark, a first-year University of Virginia law student, was overheard telling sheriff's deputies as he was led away from the rally at Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport.

Stark said that he was attending the event as a reporter for the Air America Radio network's "The Young Turks" show and that he wanted to ask Allen about his arrest record and why he didn't do more to stop his supporters from wrestling him to the ground at a campaign event on Tuesday.

On Saturday, Allen supporters formed a human wall to block Stark's access to the senator, who is in a tight election race with Democrat Jim Webb. As Stark tried to sidestep the wall, he brushed the side of a supporter, who fell. A deputy sheriff grabbed Stark, put his arm behind his back and led him away to the cheers of about 100 Allen supporters.

Stark said that he had little contact with the man and that he overheard him tell another supporter that he planned to "take a dive."

The supporter who fell refused to give his name or talk about the incident.

Senatorial aide Dan Allen said his boss was concerned by Stark's presence because his daughter, a student at nearby James Madison University, was at the event and "he wanted to make sure she was safe."

"He's hoping authorities can handle it, and he's not going to allow incidents like these to distract him from discussing the issues that matter most to him," the aide said.

Webb campaign spokeswoman Kristin Denny Todd said Saturday that Webb would have no comment.

"There's nothing for Jim to say _ this guy is not affiliated with our campaign," she said.

On Tuesday, Stark was put in a chokehold and slammed to the floor by three Allen supporters in Charlottesville in an incident captured on video. Witnesses said Stark approached Allen, loudly asking, "Why did you spit at your first wife, George?" in an attempt to ask Allen about his legal history.

Albemarle County records show Allen received two summonses in 1974, but supporting documents were destroyed long ago. Allen has said the offenses were for fishing without a license and unpaid parking tickets.

Allen's ex-wife, Anne Waddell, later issued a statement calling Stark's question "a baseless, cheap shot."

Allen and Webb were about even in a poll released Saturday night by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research. Webb had 46 percent, Allen 45 percent and 7 percent were undecided in the survey of 625 likely voters, conducted Wednesday through Friday for several Virginia newspapers. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. Independent Gail Parker also is on the ballot.

[romanesq]

Own this town if you mean he'll be very familiar with a personal toilet in a jail cell.

[nwrep]

What will Stark do when Allen wins and the GOP keeps the House on Tuesday night? Cry in the arms of his boyfriend?

[woodb01]

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[Past Your Eyes]

If they call that a chokehold they don't know a helluva lot about rasslin.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

This puke needs a blanket party.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Allen's ex-wife, Anne Waddell, later issued a statement calling Stark's question "a baseless, cheap shot."

End of story.

[kinoxi]

Albemarle County records show Allen received two summonses in 1974, but supporting documents were destroyed long ago. Allen has said the offenses were for fishing without a license and unpaid parking tickets.

Wait till this little spaz finds out his new employers are broke and can't pay him. Not only that they'll drop him like a bad habit once the election is over and his legal issues start. What a putz.

[Soul Seeker]

"There's nothing for Jim to say _ this guy is not affiliated with our campaign," she said.

Sure.

If Webb is going to win this due to the wind of WAPO's editorial pages, why are his supporters getting violent in the final days at Allen's rallies? Doesn't indicate confidence, just as Ford crashing Corker's event didn't indicate confidence.

Allen wins.

[angelsonmyside]

Can't someone put a restraining order out on this guy for stalking?

[msnimje]

"I'll own this town,"

Ignorance just oozes out of this guy.

[Libloather]

Liberal Blogger Taken Into Custody

Why aren't they all behind bars - charged with hate crimes?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

ROFL

[nicollo]

"I'll own this town," Stark, a first-year University of Virginia law student, was overheard telling sheriff's deputies as he was led away from the rally at Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport.

Ah yes, the first words of future Trial Attorney.

[LasVegasMac]

"I'll own this town," Stark, a first-year University of Virginia law student, was overheard telling sheriff's deputies

No, smart ass.

You will not.

The eye is focused.

And the Internet has a very long memory.

We will be waiting.

[WVNan]

Funny how much angst was caused by Allen's pet name for a dim spy, yet the moonbats are physically attacking Allen supporters and Allen himself if he gets the chance. Not one word of condemnation from Webb.

[Moose4]

Gotta love liberals. A deputy sheriff sees a known disruptor knock somebody over in a crowd, detains the guy and hauls him off, and all the liberal can do is play the "do you know who I am" card. Well, yeah, Mike, apparently the Augusta County Sheriff's Department knew who you were and were keeping an eye on your punk ass.

}:-)4

[popdonnelly]

Let me guess. He posts on the DU,the Daily Kos, or MoveOn.

[festus]

1st year law student...........

Won't graduate much less pass the bar.

[CheyennePress]

Both ignorance and arrogance.

*sigh* UVA is known, along with the University of Chicago, as the conservative bastion of top 10 law schools. Scalia used to be a professor there.

(though sadly, a lot of the newer professors are flaming libertards, though. Rosa Brooks comes to mind.)

This guy really just needed to go somewhere else. The funny thing is, if liberals aren't in complete domination, they aren't happy and are looking to be repressed/claim repression.

This guy is clearly a moron with a superiority complex. One who should have been studying instead of running his mouth and stalking George Allen's campaign.