Report: Attack on Jindal Aide and Boyfriend Politically Motivated (Beaten for wearing Palin buttons)

Tuesday, April 13, 2010 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

Joe Brown and Allee Bautsch

Allee Bautsch, chief campaign fundraiser for Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, and her boyfriend Joe Brown, were savagely beaten Friday night in New Orleans after leaving a Republican party fundraising dinner by a group of thugs who reportedly targeted the couple because they were wearing Sarah Palin pins.

Bautch's leg was broken and Brown incurred a broken jaw and nose as well as a concussion.

The Hayride reports that a source who visited Bautsch at the hospital the day after the attack says they were told the couple was attacked for wearing Palin buttons:

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.

The story of a Republican and her boyfriend being viciously attacked for wearing Palin buttons has yet to make national headlines, unlike say, unfounded rumors of nasty words being said by Tea Party protesters.

[NFHale]

Carry. Everywhere. Always. Quietly. Discreetly. Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.

Especially in this age of “Stupid Rising...”

[Ben Mugged]

Where is Drudge on this?

[denydenydeny]

Meanwhile, the nonexistent “epithets” hurled at a bunch of Democrats are front page news.

[Lazamataz]

Ping. It's starting in earnest.

Hollowpoints, center of mass, double-tap then one to the head. Then follow up to next target.

[txhurl]

High probability Rush will lead off with this.

So it’s begun?

[ReneeLynn]

This wasn’t even covered on FOX? Drudge? Hannity? What the...?

[piytar]

I ALWAYS carry anymore, but I’m in Texas. Those thugs would NOT want to try that in these parts...

[Lazamataz]

It has begun.

[wastoute]

Sounds like a “hate crime” to me. Oh, I guess not they are WHITE.

[CholeraJoe]

Here's mine. .45ACP, 11 round capacity.

[tatsinfla]

but they followed tigers every more this weekend didn’t they....

[SE Mom]

Whoa..

It’s getting ugly.

[meadsjn]

... 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.

Here's some great marketing material -- whatever "goes together like a .45 and a Palin pin."

[AngelesCrestHighway]

If these a-holes want trouble...they will have it!!!

[Spok]

If the MSM can’t blame the tea baggers, it ain’t news. I avoid the MSM at all costs, and if I’m subjected to it involuntarily, I write it off as hype. CNN and the major networks are no longer capable of objectivity; they don’t even try.

[Red Badger]

Okay, Cokie Roberts, THIS IS FT. SUMTER, YOU BITCH!.....................

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Have already e-mailed it to both Ace and Michelle.

[SeekAndFind]

Allee Bautsch, chief campaign fundraiser for Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, and her boyfriend Joe Brown, were savagely beaten Friday night in New Orleans after leaving a Republican party fundraising dinner by a group of thugs who reportedly targeted the couple because they were wearing Sarah Palin pins.

Does this qualify as a HATE CRIME ?

[CholeraJoe]

I even carry in church. Do you have any idea how many church shootings there are every year?

[ilovesarah2012]

I am sure this will be all over the MSM tonight.