{"id":4442,"date":"2009-08-02T14:39:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T21:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=4442"},"modified":"2009-08-02T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T21:39:08","slug":"the-strangest-act-of-possible-political-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/08\/02\/the-strangest-act-of-possible-political-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"the strangest act of (possible) political terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"

The background here:\u00c2\u00a0 David Vitter is the Louisiana Senator who got in trouble due to purchasing the services of a prostitute.\u00c2\u00a0 He has\u00c2\u00a0received a primary opponent in the name of “Stormy Daniels”, a Porn star, who is\u00c2\u00a0not going to win, but whose run serves\u00c2\u00a0as a reminder of the the prostitute scandal through the minds of the voters for the next year. AND SO<\/a>…<\/p>\n

An advisor to Stormy Daniels’ potential senatorial campaign had his car blown up yesterday on a street in New Orleans. Political advisor Brian Welch was unharmed. <\/em><\/p>\n

Surveillance footage broadcast on local news affiliate ABC-26 shows what appears to be a man opening the driver’s-side door, throwing an object in the vehicle and then the car exploding.<\/em><\/p>\n

“It looks like the pictures you would see in Iraq following a roadside car bombing,” reporter Glynn Boyd said of the damage to Welch’s car.<\/em><\/p>\n

Having a porn star consider a run for senate certainly is a controversial campaign to be involved in, especially in the Deep South, so Welsh questioned if someone is trying to send him a message, but wouldn’t point fingers so early on.<\/em><\/p>\n

He’s waiting for more forensic information and hopes witnesses would come forward with more details, but swears this incident will not deter him from continuing to work with Daniels.<\/em><\/p>\n

“No one has seen anything like this before\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6not in such a dramatic fashion,” Welsh told ABC-26. “It’s too early for me to go pointing fingers. I’d like to hear officially what happened and then we can take it from there. .”<\/em><\/p>\n

Famous last words: “If someone’s trying to send me a message like this, it’s not going to work.”\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>And for the conspiratorial-minded out there, she has now been charged with domestic violence (news <\/a>mixed in with footage of the car-bombing here<\/a>).\u00c2\u00a0 Is David Vitter running in the same Louisiana political tradition as Huey Long with regards to his political enemies?\u00c2\u00a0 Actually, who’d want to destroy the career of a fringe novelty political act — almost but not quite the equivalent of destroying the candidacy of, say, Bob Kelleher … or Gordon Allen Pross.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The background here:\u00c2\u00a0 David Vitter is the Louisiana Senator who got in trouble due to purchasing the services of a prostitute.\u00c2\u00a0 He has\u00c2\u00a0received a primary opponent in the name of “Stormy Daniels”, a Porn star, who is\u00c2\u00a0not going to win, but whose run serves\u00c2\u00a0as a reminder of the the prostitute scandal through the minds of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4443,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions\/4443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}