I just heard Paul volunteer stomper victim Lauren Valle is going to do her first national TV interview tonight on Olbermann’s show. Our Brian Beutler spoke to her just a short time ago. See our write up here. The key take away so far is that she claims her assailant recognized her as a regular anti-Paul protester and pre-meditated the attack. Presumably she’ll expand on that point tonight.
Criminal summons issued for Tim Profitt, last night’s alleged (and confessed) stomper.
Man, the silly things that crowd my inbox:
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Recovering from her concussion and a sprained shoulder, the MoveOn activist assaulted in Kentucky last night spoke with reporters via conference call a short time ago. Brian Beutler reports.
My working assumption is that Tim Profitt, the Rand Paul volunteer county coordinator, did not consult an attorney before confessing to the AP that he was the stomper — and explaining that the camera angle made the video look worse than the actual stomping was. Confessing to the press was the second bad move Profitt apparently made in the last 18 hours.
TPM Reader DW, who is licensed to practice in Kentucky although he doesn’t live there any longer, checks in:
I am from KY and still licensed to practice law there among other places. (I have lived elsewhere for many years.) 33 years ago I was Ast. Att’y Gen. of KY doing primarily criminal appellate litigation.
Democrat Alex Sink apparently caught on camera cheating in last night’s debate in the Florida governor’s race. Take a look.
Just when it looked like Pat Toomey was pulling away with an 8 point lead in today’s Muhlenberg daily tracking poll, I see this new poll out from Ipsos/Reuters showing it all tied at 46% a piece.
Lexington PD on the status of the stomping investigation …
“I think we’re probably going to come up with something later today,” Roberts said, adding that tips have been coming in literally from around the country about who the suspects in the attack might be. “Because it was captured on video, we have a good idea what happened [and] at this point there doesn’t seem to be anything to justify how this incident unfolded.
Carly Fiorina has been hospitalized just a week before the election, according to a statement from her campaign:
Carly learned more than a year and a half ago that she, like millions of women, had breast cancer. After successfully battling cancer, she had reconstructive surgery this summer and remains cancer free today. However, this morning Carly came down with an infection associated with the reconstructive surgery and, as a result, she was admitted to the hospital to receive antibiotics to treat this infection. While this will impact her campaign schedule today, Carly is upbeat and her doctors expect her to make a quick and full recovery and be back out on the campaign trail soon. Carly is looking forward to getting back to her full campaign schedule and to defeating Barbara Boxer on November 2.