Developing - Beaten For Wearing Palin Pins? (Update)

NOLA.com is reporting that Governor Bobby Jindal's campaign finance director and her boyfriend were beaten after a fund raising event at Brennan's Restaurant. Allee Bautsch suffered a broken leg and her boyfriend suffered a concussion and a fractured nose and jaw in the incident. Yet, nowhere is the media reporting anything about the incident.

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.

At this point, I suggest we wait until everything comes out in the wash. Too often, we hear and read stories like this that pan out to be nothing more than exaggerated.

Update - Video surfaces outside event showing protesters chanting "Fight back."



Hayride reports that Jindal spokesman Kyle Plotkin tells us that Alle Bautsch was not wearing a Palin pin. And neither was Joe Brown. So that’s an allegation which has been disputed. It does appear that the attack was, indeed, politically motivated.

Read the story at NOLA.com, Gateway Pundit, Free Republic, Hayride