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.
Democrat Alex Sink apparently caught on camera cheating in last night’s debate in the Florida governor’s race. Take a look.
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.
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.
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Criminal summons issued for Tim Profitt, last night’s alleged (and confessed) stomper.
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.
Paul volunteer stomper, Tim Profitt, issues non-apology apology (a new innovation based on non-denial denial methodology): “I’m sorry that it came to that, and I apologize if it appeared overly forceful, but I was concerned about Rand’s safety.”
I mentioned earlier that Tim Profitt, Rand Paul’s head stomping volunteer, issued a non-apology apology about his attack on Moveon activist Lauren Valle.
But TPM Reader AF points out that there’s a bit more along these lines. Profitt’s argument seems to be that not only did Valle have it coming but that the whole incident was partly the fault of the police for not proactively arresting Valle before Profitt and his friends had to rough her up and stomp on her head.
The AP says Profitt “criticized police for not stepping in and says other supporters warned authorities about the activist.”