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Just Another Random, Coincidental Beat-Down on Two Republicans in New Orleans

Posted on | April 17, 2010 | 8 Comments

Allahpundit notes that New Orleans police have denied telling blogger Pat Dollard that they suspect a political motive in the brutal April 9 beating of Alexandra “Allee” Bautsch and her boyfriend, Joseph Brown, after they left a fundraiser for Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal. Michelle Malkin says:

It doesn’t help to insist on making this a partisan cause celebre and reducing the victims to political pawns when the evidence remains murky — and especially when one of the victims himself heard no politically-motivated taunts.

OK, I don’t want to make it a partisan cause celebre, but I’ll be very interested in seeing who (if anyone) gets arrested for this crime. Bautsch, who works for Jindal, had her leg broken and Brown suffered a broken nose and broken jaw.

The fundraiser they had attended had drawn a crowd of anti-GOP protesters. According to the police report, the man who beat Brown was a “white male, late 20s” with a ponytail. And the crime itself was rather bizarre: The couple walked out of the French Quarter restaurant where the fundraiser was held, and were evidently pursued by a group of people shouting things like “little blonde bitch,” “f—ing faggot,” etc., before the attack occurred.

So if there was no political motive for the attack, what other possible motive could there be? There was no robbery or sexual assault. Under what imaginable circumstance would this couple have been randomly targeted for such abusive treatment?

Crazy things happen in New Orleans all the time, but when two Republicans leave a GOP fundraising event that has been targeted by protesters, when they are followed down the street and then attacked a few blocks away– well, kind of a strange coincidence, isn’t it?

Just askin’ questions . . .

Category: Crime, Fear and Loathing in the French Quarter, Republicans, Uncategorized

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8 Responses to “Just Another Random, Coincidental Beat-Down on Two Republicans in New Orleans”

  1. victoria_29
    April 17th, 2010 @ 7:41 pm

    Sure it is just coincidence….just one of those things…yep sure.

  2. victoria_29
    April 17th, 2010 @ 2:41 pm

    Sure it is just coincidence….just one of those things…yep sure.

  3. Steve
    April 18th, 2010 @ 2:46 am

    Well if they were shouting things like “little blonde bitch,” & “f—ing faggot,” why isnt the left going nuts about “hate crimes” in New Orleans?
    Also, i know the French Quarter Fest altered police presence in the city, its unfortunate, but on any other weekend(excluding Jazzfest Mardi Gras New Year Haloween etc), that block has at least 2 police patrols. The Supreme court is right across from Brennans, and a police station one block south. Im still surprised there was no policeman in sight of what happened.

  4. Steve
    April 17th, 2010 @ 9:46 pm

    Well if they were shouting things like “little blonde bitch,” & “f—ing faggot,” why isnt the left going nuts about “hate crimes” in New Orleans?
    Also, i know the French Quarter Fest altered police presence in the city, its unfortunate, but on any other weekend(excluding Jazzfest Mardi Gras New Year Haloween etc), that block has at least 2 police patrols. The Supreme court is right across from Brennans, and a police station one block south. Im still surprised there was no policeman in sight of what happened.

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  6. McGehee
    April 18th, 2010 @ 2:18 pm

    Nor, from what I’ve read elsewhere, were Bautsch and Brown the only event attendees threatened; at least one other group was unable to leave the restaurant through the front door, which was blocked by shrieking rabble.

  7. McGehee
    April 18th, 2010 @ 9:18 am

    Nor, from what I’ve read elsewhere, were Bautsch and Brown the only event attendees threatened; at least one other group was unable to leave the restaurant through the front door, which was blocked by shrieking rabble.

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