The News Leader reports that G. Felix Allen, Jr., (R), hid from demonstrators today, preferring to hide rather than to keep a scheduled appearance.
The last-minute change in plans came minutes after a man identifying himself as a University of Virginia law school student broke in front of reporters at an event at Staunton’s Holiday Inn, forcefully asking the senator, “Have you ever used the word n-----?” He also questioned why Allen, a one-term Republican senator and former governor, had once displayed a noose in his office.
Allen, caught off-guard but still smiling, put his hands on the man’s shoulders and offered to speak to him later, but aides quickly led the man out of the room and Allen soon boarded his bus and left.
“Once in a while you get ambushed,” Allen said before leaving the event, a luncheon attended by a nearly all-white crowd of Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce members. “That’s OK. That’s part of it.”
Sounds as if G. Felix Allen, Jr. has some explaining to do.
1 comment:
Sen. Allen "put his hands on " the protester's shoulders. Is this inappropriate touching, groping and head-rubbing (as from Georgie W.) now a regular Rethug tactic?
Or is it an old-fashioned bully's attempt to intimidate?
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