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Scuffle at Allen Campaign Stop Under Investigation

Seeded on Thu Nov 2, 2006 12:14 PM EST
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Mike Stark, a high school dropout who is a University of Virginia law school student, said he wishes his scuffle at a George Allen campaign stop had never happened.

I think it's embarrassing for the country. I think it's embarrassing for Virginia, said Stark, a 38-year-old New York native who moved to Charlottesville to attend law school. I'm not a Democratic activist. I'm a man with strong ideas of what's right and what's wrong. . . . Anybody who thought it would be better to manhandle a constituent than ignore the questions should definitely be fired.

Charlottesville police are investigating the scuffle Tuesday at a downtown hotel and may interview Allen to determine what happened. The incident has attracted nationwide attention.

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I love how our un-biased local paper describes a former US Marine as just a "high school drop-out." All this controversy over John Kerry accusing the troops of being undereducated (not really, but whatever) and then the conservative staff of the RTD do the same thing.

Whether Stark's actions and his subsequent tackling Tuesday hurt the Allen campaign may depend on how the incidents were reported by the news media, and in turn, perceived by Virginia voters.

And the RTD is doing it's part to be sure that the man they endorsed gets elected.

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