Posted on 10/25/2008 9:25:01 AM PDT by Yankee
Almost from the start, Pittsburgh police were skeptical about a young woman's claim that she had been mugged and a "B" carved into her cheek by an attacker who was provoked by the sight of a John McCain bumper sticker on her car.
Yesterday, their doubts were confirmed when 20-year-old Ashley Todd, a McCain volunteer from College Station, Texas, admitted that she made the whole thing up.
There was no black man with a knife, no robbery, no physical assault.
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In March, Ms. Todd was asked to leave a grass-roots group of Ron Paul supporters in Brazos County, Texas, group leader Dustan Costine said. He said Ms. Todd posed as a supporter of former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and called the local Republican committee seeking information about its campaign strategies.
"She would call the opposing campaign and pretend she was on their campaign to get information," Mr. Costine said last night. "We had to remove her because of the tactics she displayed. After that we had nothing to do with her."
About a month earlier, he said, Ms. Todd sent an e-mail to the Ron Paul group saying her tires were slashed and that campaign paraphernalia had been stolen from her car because she supported Mr. Paul.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
I don’t use the word idiot very often, but...
“A real kookburger”
That’s putting it mildly. Now people are going to try to paint McCain volunteers as crazy rascists.
She needs to see a shrink. That girl ain’t right.
Why did she write the “B” backwards? That’s a dead giveaway.
Why,why,WHY would she do such a thing??
She could NOT possibly believe that this would help McCain!
AND....McCain NEEDS to address this-short,sweet,direct and get it over and done with-just like Sarah did with the wardrobe non-issue-then move on to the tax cut/increase issue.
“In March, Ms. Todd was asked to leave a grass-roots group of Ron Paul”
That’s all I need to know about this story before forgetting it altogther this afternoon.
The irony, now that the story has been shown to be a hoax, the media will actually cover it. Had it not been a hoax, they would have ignored it.
Paulite plant to torpedo McCain. The flipped B is a TOO obvious mistake.
Obama-derangement-syndrome
I’m feeling it too....just not enough to start carving myself up.
She is a RON PAUL supporter, not McCain.
I think the last thing on her mind was to “help McCain”.
I think she is a pathetic loser craving attention.
She's one of his, not one of ours. We need to make sure the critics know that. He decided not to fall in when McCain was the certain nominee, so now we're stuck dealing with his moonbats.
Correction: This stupid woman was a Ron Paul supporter.
She probably thinks the Messiah’s name is Bama. And that the masses are shouting, “Oh, Bama.”
That’s the only way I can explain the B.
And she does live in College Station. I bet she is either an Aggie or dates one.
(Okay, that last was a joke — I have lots of friends who are Aggies.)
Probably not. The article seems to suggest that she was unstable for quite a while, and would pose as part of campaigns she was against. If anything, this article screams "Paulbot pretending to be a McCain fan".
“With friends like this who needs enemies.”
She is a person who obviously needs close medical attention. Let us hope she has family and friends who can help her.
Because she's not very smart?
I don’t think she is a Ron Paul, John McCain or Mike Huckabee supporter, or part of any actual campaign conspiracy.
I think she is a flake who tried to ingratiate herself with various groups and got “found out” and booted.
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