Louisiana GOP fundraiser Alexandra "Allee" Bautsch and her boyfriend, Joe Brown, talk with a police officer about the savage attack on them by leftist protesters as they left a GOP fundraising event on April 9, 2010. Photo by Jack A. Neal
Posted on 04/19/2010 10:30:30 AM PDT by kristinn
Louisiana GOP fundraiser Alexandra "Allee" Bautsch and her boyfriend, Joe Brown, talk with a police officer about the savage attack on them by leftist protesters as they left a GOP fundraising event on April 9, 2010. Photo by Jack A. Neal
The scandal of the aftermath of the vicious political attack on Alexandra "Allee" Bautsch, the chief fundraiser for Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, and her boyfriend, Joe Brown, as they left a Republican fundraiser attended by three GOP governors (Jindal, Rick Perry of Texas and Haley Barbour of Mississippi) April 9th has taken a sickening turn as a report has surfaced that some in the Lousiana GOP are giving Bautsch what amounts to a second beating by starting a whispering campaign that she "earned" the attack with her "sassy mouth."
Blogger Pat Dollard, who has been working the story of the attack, Tweeted last night accusing some in the Louisiana GOP of saying that Bautsch deserved the attack and that he's confirmed the Louisiana "Republican establishment" is trying to "shut down the Allee Bautsch story." His report is in contrast to a statement by Louisiana GOP Chairman Louis Villere, Jr.--who has not blamed Bautsch for the attack--that he was pursued without provocation by protesters outside the same event where Bautsch and Brown were later attacked.
Dollard's report lends credence to what a reporter who is also working the story told me on background last week, that the scuttlebutt was that people were going to be saying Bautsch has a "big mouth" and "may have brought the attack on herself."
Dollard's Tweets:
"I have verification that the Republican establishment in Louisiana is trying to shut down the Allee Bautsch story."
about 12 hours ago via web
"The Republican Establishment in Louisiana is afraid of Allee Bautsch, they think she "has a sassy mouth" and may have "earned" the beating."
about 11 hours ago via web
Gov. Jindal has been noticably silent on the maiming of his aide, issuing a brief statement three days after the attack when it first became public and later sending out his spokesman to deny a report that the couple was wearing Sarah Palin pins when attacked. Curiously, the New Orleans police also waited three days until the attack became public to open a criminal investigation.
Bautsch's mother, Della Berning, says her daughter's leg was stomped and broken in four places by protesters who were part of an anti-Republican protest organized by leftists who followed the couple from Brennan's restaurant, the scene of the fundraiser.
Bautsch's wounds required a rod and seven screws to be implanted in her leg. Brown suffered a broken nose and jaw and as well as a concussion that gave him problems with remembering details of the attack.
According to the police report, which is based on Brown's beating-induced foggy memory, the attackers yelled things like, " "Little blonde bitch," "You're a f------- faggot," and "You think you're f------ special."
Bautsch's mother told Fox News, "...things were said to my daughter and to her boyfriend that basically everything was about money. From the time they were walking out of the restaurant things were being said to them."
Berning told Yahoo News that Brown and her daughter have told her they were attacked by protesters who followed them as they left the fundraiser at Brennan's.
The host of the fundraiser, Louisiana Republican Chairman Roger Villere, Jr., said in an intrview that he was targeted and pursued by protesters as he tried to leave the fundraiser. He and his group had to leave out the back as the protesters had blocked the entrance to Brennan's. When the protesters spotted them, Villere and his group fled to a taxi and made their escape. Bautsch and Brown weren't as lucky.
Some conservative bloggers and reporters have hurt their reputations with their condescending efforts to play down the political basis for the attack on Bautsch and Brown.
Pat Dollard spoke for many last night when he Tweeted:
Welcome to the Stockholm Syndrome of the Republican Establishment, and the Elites of the Conservative Blogging Establisment who prop 'em up.
about 13 hours ago via web
And
I'm getting the feeling that the elites in the Conservative blogging establishment are as useless as the elites in the GOP.
about 13 hours ago via web
With the mainstream media feeling no pressure to pursue the story, it's no wonder some in the Louisiana GOP are not afraid to blame the victim.
Fortunately, The Hayride, Free Republic, Human Events, Gateway Pundit, Big Government, Lincoln Parish News Online, Tennessee Conservative, Big Journalism and Pat Dollard have maintained their independence from GOP and MSM approval and reported the story as it developed.
While late to the story, Fox News and Megyn Kelly get credit for interviewing Bautsch's mother last Friday and for booking The Hayride's Scott McKay to be on about 2:10 p.m. EDT today.
SO whadda ya think - she took a sledge hammer to her leg later - requiring surgery and rods to repair it?
Yeah, that sounds more plausible...
sheeesh -
Were YOU there?
What picture?
Yes, I’ve noticed that.
It’s fine to be cautious about early reports on a story like this, but it almost seems as if they’re bending over backward to deny the obvious.
Nevermind. Right after I asked it showed up on my screen.
Hmm, I guess you think the cops are lying AND her mother.
I was wondering what it looks like for someone to have broken bones?
So, instead of highlighting to the world the vicious blood thirsty jackbooted thugs that the socialist democrats are, Jindal and the “Stupid party” of Louisiana have decided to throw one of their top fundraisers under the bus.
They really don’t want to win do they. Is there something wrong with my assessment?
Democrats lie and cheat and often throw their voices to sound like Republicans.
http://www.bayoubuzz.com/News/NewOrleans/New_Orleans_French_Quarter_Beating_Shows_Sick_City__10667.asp
New Orleans French Quarter Beating Shows Sick City
From Lincoln Parrish NewsOnline:
In an interview this afternoon, Louisiana GOP Chair Roger Villere, Jr. told Lincoln Parish News Online he and several others were pursued by protesters last Friday night after a political fundraiser, but managed to get into a cab and avoid the mob. “We started to leave out the front door after the event, but the protesters had us blocked – there were six of us in our group – so we went out through the kitchen,” Villere said. Once they got outside, the protesters spotted them and began to pursue them, but they managed to get into a cab and avoid confrontation. End quote.
So this is the new unspoken war. Thugs and leftist get away with cement bags through bus windows, beating up black TEA partiers, brutalizing GOP workers, terrorizing tourists that happen to be in the area, and we are left to read GOP leadership sneaking out though the kitchen.
WTF!
Brown appears to have his watch on his wrist
so whose is the one drapped on the curb edge?
It doesn’t look like a woman’s watch to me.
This could happen to any one of us who attend the Tea Party's. Never go to your car alone. Watch your back.
nope, just that it is a strange picture. No bleeding, no deformity or bruising visible. They look as if they had been assaulted, but not that badly injured yet - almost as if they had been hurt more later.
That’s all I meant - not that they were lying about their injuries.
I guess she just went home and broke her leg in four places for the hospital records.
I suppose some would think Ann Coulter has a sassy mouth and deserves a beating like this?? This is crazy talk, no matter how sassy!
My ex SIL is an x-ray tech - I asked her one time how to tell if my son's finger was broken - she said there's only one way to tell - get an x-ray.
You know, I thought being in the business she would be able to tell but no.
I would have considered it as an Act of War. Especially if the sniveling turds claimed that they were just “exercising their right of political free expression (re: RNC Convention 2008)” and thus got away with it.
Good eye! The perp’s, perhaps?
This makes zero sense. For what purpose would some in the Louisiana GOP push this angle? There’s no motive whatsoever. This is a major fundraiser for their party and their popular incumbent governor. It makes no sense at all.
yet again the GOP and some talk show hosts run scared on yet another subject.
when will they learn that we have to stand and fight and playing nice and reaching across is getting us no where
One of the perps lost his watch in the attack. They’ll get DNA from it too.
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