Posted on 04/19/2010 10:30:30 AM PDT by kristinn
My apologies for posting and running again, but I must.
Courtesy ping.
wow
I really want to see Jindal speak out on this.
In this picture, it does not look like Brown has a broken nose and jaw, or that Bautsch has a leg broken in four places.
Maybe Joe Klein will come to this couple's defense... /sarc
Blame the victim. Bill Clinton must have advised the DNC Brownshirts on this strategy.
You’d be seeing a lot more about this if Joe Brown had his CCW and had whupped out his trusty .45 and plugged a thug or two.
What little respect I had for Jindal after his disasterous ‘Its all about Me!’ rebuttal to Obama’s SOTU address is now gone.
Neither Michelle Malkin or AllahPundit, as of this writing, have bothered to acknowledge, even in passing, the increasingly self-evident wrongness of their haughty earlier dismissals of this story... so: yep.
Sad, ain't it?
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Louisiana GOP Official: Cops not Called to Brennan’s Mob Scene Until About 9:30 PM
04/19/2010 by Walter Abbott
An official of the Louisiana GOP that attended the $10 thousand/person GOP fundraiser held at Brennan’s Restaurant in New Orleans’ French Quarter has told Lincoln Parish News Online that New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) officers weren’t called to the restaurant until about 9:30 PM. Louisiana Federation of Republican Women’s (LFRW) representative to the GOP State Central Committee Valarie Hodges said that the mob of protesters had become unruly and were crowded up against the front door of the restaurant as she and her husband and another couple were leaving the event.
“Before that time, there was no security or police” at the restaurant despite the presence of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, Texas Governor Rick Perry, and at least one congressman. “The mob had been building for a couple of hours,” she added.
Eric Miller, a local photographer hired to take pictures at the fundraiser said that as he was leaving the premises, the protesters had crowded up to the front door and were hassling patrons trying to enter and leave. “There was a family with kids – maybe six or eight years old – trying to get in. The protesters were bombarding them with all sorts of four-letter words,” he said. “That was completely unnecessary. These folks were just tourists out on the town,” he added.
Some of Miller’s photos of the commotion can be seen here. Scenes of the mob and its activity have been well documented on The Hayride.
Later that night, Allee Bautsch and her date Joe Brown were brutally assaulted a block from the restaurant, on the sidewalk outside the Louisiana Supreme Court Building. The fundraiser and assault took place on Friday, April 9.
Another person who attended the event, who knew and has worked with Bautsch for GOP fund-raising, was disappointed that Gov. Jindal hasn’t been more forceful in standing up for his employee and demanding publicly that the perpetrators be brought to justice.
Hodges also noted her disappointment with the Jindal.
Today we contacted the Governor’s Press Office, but they had nothing to say about the incident after we told them of what had been said of them in our interviews.
We also contacted the NOPD and spoke to Gary Flot, but the only new information he gave us was that Sgt. Nick Gernin of the Eighth Police District was the only one assigned to the case. We asked to speak to Sgt. Gernin, but he had not come in to the office when we called.
Ummmm, a “freeper” was on the threads last week asking what did they do to deserve it?
Well, I guess that means it must be a lie.
Are you implying that evil Tea Party surgeons implanted a rod and seven screws in her leg just for propaganda purposes?
I am beginning to despise politicians of any stripe. I mean this is getting out of control. What are we working for? The GOP just wants to take advantage of our hatred for the Dems and their policies, but they are just as nasty. But a third party isn’t the solution either.
Can’t we Freepers just all chip in for an island in the south pacific? Please?
For one thing, the identity of the perps would be confirmed....
Well, unless the police or ambulance crew beat them after the photo was taken, they do have those injuries, whether you can see them or not.
Jindal and the R’s in LA have some ‘splainin’ to do. How dare he “downplay” this? I hope his career dies right here and now.
You have xray vision or something? Just because the bone isn’t sticking out of the skin or the leg is facing backwards doesn’t mean it isn’t broken or fractured. Sheesh.
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