Jindal campaign official hurt in French Quarter (AKA the scratched backward B part 2)

[John Kerry VonErich]

Posted: Monday, 12 April 2010 9:44PM

Jindal campaign official hurt in French Quarter

Associated Press Reporting

Gov. Bobby Jindal's chief campaign fundraiser is recovering from injuries she suffered in a Friday night altercation with a group of people in the French Quarter.

The governor's office said Monday that Allee Bautsch suffered a broken leg and her boyfriend, Joe Brown, (both pictured above from Bautsch's Facebook page) suffered a concussion and fractured nose and jaw in the alleged incident, which happened after a fundraising event at Brennan's Restaurant on behalf of the Louisiana Republican Party.

http://www.wwl.com/Jindal-campaign-official-hurt-in-French-Quarter/6788247

[NeedleCast]

1. This is a lot more serious in terms of injury than backward B girl

Not saying there's a political motivation here, but no one is going to give themselves injuries that require hospitalization in order to try and score political points.

[John Kerry VonErich]

3. I definately know

I feel it will be perverted into such a case of political motivation

[Ian David]

2. Were they trying to kidnap someone to perform an exorcism? n/t

[LeftinOH]

4. I've been the victim of random street crime; I don't think the perpetrators were interested in

my political views. It happens -even to Republicans.

[NotThisTime]

5. Agreed, NOLA has violence, this sounds like a random mugging gone wrong

[John Kerry VonErich]

13. The opposition says

Not posting link unless asked

"Two people at the Brennan’s event have now confirmed that the protest had largely broken up by the time it ended, but we also understand from someone who visited Allee Bautsch in the hospital Saturday morning that she and Brown were followed and attacked expressly because they had Palin pins on (she heard one of the attackers say “Let’s get them, they have Palin pins on” – so the attack WAS politically motivated as its victims understood it. It was not a mugging, it was not an argument gone wrong and it was not a bar fight."

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Jindal's campaign says they weren't wearing Palin pins

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s office told me emphatically Tuesday afternoon that Bautsch, whose leg was “badly broken” in the beating, was not wearing a Palin pin, and neither was her boyfriend, who suffered a concussion, as well as a fractured nose and jaw.

And while Bautsch and her boyfriend were leaving a Republican fundraiser that was being protested, reportedly by anarchists, the statement from Jindal’s office says they are “not aware of any evidence that the individuals involved in the altercation were protesters.”

http://dailycaller.com/2010/04/13/female-gop-fundraiser-beaten-in-new-orleans-was-not-wearing-a-palin-pin/

[Brickbat]

6. Why introduce the backwards B part of it?

Sounds like a pretty brutal random attack, to me.

[T Wolf]

7. The pukes and FRers are making it into a political thing. I say, every time a puke gets beat up,

an angel gets its wings.

[Brickbat]

9. Disgusting.

[Ian David]

10. "Ignored" is known for being disgusting. n/t

[Brickbat]

12. Heh.

I'll remember that.

[Lagomorph]

15. That would make it a political thing...

if only because of your comments.

If some people get their way, there will be a lot of angels getting their wings, but it won't just be over the pukes bodies.

I suspect you may not have had enough experience with terror for you to wish it on anybody.

I've had enough experience, that seeing a post like yours makes my blood boil.

[Ian David]

11. Because nobody ever gets hurt walking the streets of New Orleans at night.

I wonder if it was the cops who beat them up?

[damntexdem]

8. See, you hang with the wrong gang and you're likely to get in trouble or be hurt:

"after a fundraising event at Brennan's Restaurant on behalf of the Louisiana Republican Party." Especially if the gang is out for money.

;-)