Frankfort, KY, United States (AHN) – The campaign worker for GOP candidate Rand Paul who stomped on a female liberal activist wants the woman, a supporter of state Attorney General Jack Conway, to apologize to him.
A MoveOn activist had tried to give Paul a mock award as the candidates debated on Sunday, but she was wrestled to the ground by the Republican candidate’s supporters and then stomped on by Tim Profitt, who was at the time a coordinator in Bourbon County for the Paul campaign.
The incident, which came a little over a week before elections, caused an uproar and Paul later condemned the actions of Profitt, who has been banned from campaign events and is facing a misdemeanor assault charge.
The 53-year-old Profitt, however, believes the activist is to blame. “She’s a professional at what she does,” he told WKYT. “I think when all the facts come out, I think people will see that she was the one that initiated the whole thing.”
“I don’t think it’s that big of a deal,” he added. “I would like for her to apologize to me to be honest.”
The activist, 23-year-old Lauren Valle, suffered a concussion and a sprained shoulder. She had been trying to give a RepubliCorp award to the GOP candidate at the time she was assaulted. RepubliCorp is a mock award given by MoveOn to emphasize what the liberal group says are ties between the GOP and corporate interests.
Paul currently has a 7-point lead in the latest CNN/Time poll, up from tying evenly at 46 percent with Conway last month.
Another survey by Public Policy Polling has the Republican ahead by 13 points. The poll also found Conway’s “Aqua Buddha” television ad may have backfired. Fifty-six percent of voters said the controversial ad was “inappropriate,” and only 24 percent of Democrats approve of the ad.
The ad is based on a profile of Paul published by GQ. In the magazine article, a classmate of Paul at Baylor University described the Republican candidate’s college days as a member of the NoZe Brotherhood, a secret society that was at one time banned by the university for “sacrilege.”
GQ also interviewed a former female student at the university who said Paul and a friend had forced her to smoke marijuana, had bound her hands and taken her to a creek in the countryside, where Paul told her to bow down and worship “Aqua Buddha” as her god.
“Why was Rand Paul a member of a secret society that called the Holy Bible ‘a hoax’ — that was banned for mocking Christianity and Christ?,” a narrator in the ad asks. “Why did Rand Paul once tie a woman up? Tell her to bow down before a false idol and say his God was ‘Aqua Buddha’?”
An eye surgeon who defeated the GOP’s chosen nominee, Paul came under fire this summer for arguing that drug addiction is “not a real pressing issue” and for refusing to say he would vote for the Civil Rights Act by arguing, “Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?”
Conway had meant his Aqua Buddha ad as a warning to voters about what he said were Paul’s “extreme” beliefs, but questions were soon raised about whether Paul had kidnapped the female student, who later told the Washington Post that the TV spot had gone too far in portraying a college prank.
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