VA-SEN: Allen Tackle Victim Speaks; Will Press Charges By Greg Sargent | bio So I just got hold of Mike Stark, the fellow who was thrown to the ground by GOP Senator George Allen's staffers because he posed a difficult question or two to their boss. Unfortunately Stark's cell phone ran out of juice soon after we started talking, but I was able to get a bit about what happened from him. Stark appears to be taking this to the proper authorities, as they say -- in an email before we spoke, he wrote that he was on his way to "go press charges." Interview with Stark after the jump.
Here's what Stark told me: "I went in there, sat through an event...while he was gladhandling, I approached him, got within four feet." "My question was, `Senator Allen, Democrats are making this election about accountability. You can shut them up by telling us what was in your police records from the seventies.' He kind of muttered to himself, kind of, `I'm not gonna go there.' Immediately his campaign staff started pushing me around, shoving me around, trying to form a human wall between me and him. I continued to pace him out into the lobby. My next question was, `Is it true that you spit on your wife?'" "Then somebody said, `Now you're getting personal,' and wrestled me to the ground.'" At this point Stark's phone went dead. So Stark says he was pushed and shoved for asking one question, even though he apparently didn't invade Allen's space. Then he was wrestled to the ground for asking a second one. We're trying to get him on the phone again. More coming. http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2006/oct/31/va_sen_allen_tackle_victim_speaks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:218975 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
