Rand Paul Campaign Severs Ties with County Coordinator Tim Profitt

[brooklynite]

Source: Talking Points Memo

The Rand Paul campaign has just severed ties with their Bourbon County coordinator -- a man by the name of Tim Profitt -- who has identified himself as the supporter who stomped on the head and neck of a MoveOn activist outside of the Senate debate in Lexington, KY last night, according to Fox News.

Profitt apologized for the scuffle to the Associated Press this afternoon, and apparently told them that the camera angle made the incident appear worse than it really was.

The Kentucky blog "barefoot and progressive" was the first to identify Profitt as the likely assailant in a series of posts today.

TPM left a message for Profitt at his residence this afternoon, but the call was not returned before publication time.

Read more: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/kentucky-stomper-identified-as-pauls-now-former-bourbon-county-coordinator.php?ref=fpa

[Zephie]

1. How appropriate is it that a guy named Profitt supports rethugs?

[derby378]

2. Uh, dude, the MoveOn activist has a concussion because of you guys

I'd say that's bad enough for you to stand trial for felony charges.

[Spirochete]

3. Now they can call themselves

a non-Profitt organization...

[savalez]

5. ba dump psssshhhh

[AsahinaKimi]

4. Chris Matthews is

Talking about this now..on Hardball.

[savalez]

6. Here's a photo of the D Bag:

[countrydad58]

15. He looks like Phil Gramms twin brother.

[fascisthunter]

7. brownshirts

[countrydad58]

12. I would love

to have been there! I'M 52, Bad back, overweight,but an ex tough-man competitor. I would have crushed this Puke Nazis Jaw!

[fascisthunter]

13. best reply I have gotten all day

[YankeeLeft7x]

8. Too Late....Mr. Rand Paul---You Fraud!!!!

Too Late Rand Paul because he is your kind of guy, I mean Republican Thug like all your ilk are these days.

It's way too late Mr. Rand Paul....You ain't gonna walk away from this act of violence you endorse by all of a sudden "distancing yourself."

No way Rand Paul---you encourage this stuff with your hate talk!!!

All you Republicans whom use hate words and are anti-this and anti-that endorse and encourage this kind of violence due to your constant offensive remarks.

[onethatcares]

9. face it, when our society devolved to this point.

it became unretrievabe.

This supposedly passes for political discourse in some neighborhoods.

What the fuck happened to our country? I never wanted to beat someone because they voted for *, or st ronnie, or *1,

all these folks think violence is the end all.

Jeeeeez, I gotta get outa here, don't know where, but this shit is insane and if they lose this mid term election cycle,

the nutbags will be out with guns.

[Blacksheep214]

10. This is the tyranny they speak of!

Bush had his own minions refusing entry to town halls and other meetings using a police state tactics.

Paul does the same shit while telling everyone about President Obamas tyranny. Who has Obama stomped?

Let's just call this what it is, Domestic Terrorism! Book 'em Danno!

[wordpix]

74. and don't forget the "freedom we love!" Freedom to be brownshirt thugs!

:grr:

[Jakes Progress]

11. Have the Lexington police arrested him yet?

[countrydad58]

14. Looks like Phil Gramm!

[avaistheone1]

16. Damn he does, and he is a thug as well.

[concreteblue]

17. STOMPER PAUL CAMPAIGN STAFFER>>

Source: HuffPO


A volunteer with Rand Paul's Senate campaign has admitted to placing his shoe firmly on the face of a MoveOn.org volunteer outside a Senate debate on Monday night, but insisted that the camera angle of the footage that captured the alteration made the scuffle look worse than it was.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/26/tim-profitt-rand-paul-supporter_n_774285.html

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Call Lexington Police, demand his arrest...859-258-3600
or the FBI: 859-254-4038

Typical Repub...deny/downplay responsibility .
Vannity isn't even covering this..instead he is focusing on the hate and craziness of the Left....lol....Rimjob typically blames the victim..local ABC poli talker did not evan address it in 3 hours..this is in Lex....
Also, the tackler is a known operative...Mike Pezzano....

[Xipe Totec]

18. Look worse than it was? Spoken by the 'man' who didn't have a foot on his face

Man up, dude.

[Kolesar]

21. The hospital determined that she had a concussion

He is in very deep shit

[66 dmhlt]

27. Concussion? That misdemeanor is now a likely felony

At least according to a former Assistant Attorney General of Kentucky who primarily did criminal appellate litigation:

Based upon the video and assuming there is no exculpatory evidence not on the video, the perpetrator(s) would be well advised to get a first rate criminal attorney and start plea bargaining and hope they can do some time on a misdemeanor in the Fayette County jail. If the report is correct that the victim suffered a concussion, then a felony prosecution is very a distinct possibility. No competent defense attorney wants to cross examine that video.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/10/wheres_the_stompers_lawyer.php?ref=fpblg

And the sign the confessed perpetrator, Tim Profitt (of Paris, KY), carried at an earlier rally proclaiming "Bunning Will Not Let Congress Break the Law" is rich in its irony.

[Kolesar]

31. Acknowledged...eom

[prolesunited]

19. Staffer and volunteer aren't the same

Don't need to sensationalize to make this look worse than it is.

[concreteblue]

22. vOLUNTEER?

he is head of Bourbon County operations....

[prolesunited]

25. It says in the article you linked "volunteer"

You certainly can point out how high level he was. My point is that if you say staffer, someone can sidetrack the whole point by arguing over whether he was a staff or a volunteer -- just like this -- rather than talking about how this scumbag needs to be cuffed and put in jail.

[herbm]

33. Campaigns without funding have volunterring staffers all the time. Don't try to diminish this guy's

criminality. Are you a paid staffer in the Paul campaign? Or and unpaid one?

[prolesunited]

34. Yeah!

You've got me pegged. :sarcasm:

I've been hiding here years and acquiring way more posts than you just for this moment. Search my user name or better yet, look a little farther down where I say the head-stomping cretin needs to be arrested and tossed in jail for assault.

My point still remains, when you mangle designations, you lose credibility in your argument and risk sidetracking the discussion -- exactly like this.

[herbm]

35. I did not mean to hurt your feelings. My clumbsy statement meant to point out there were unpaid

staffers and campaign executives in all sorts of political races all over the country. It suprises me that you didn't already know this. I assumed you did and so I flipingly suggested you might have another motivation to say what you did. I am sorry for being flipint. Again, I appologize for hurting your feelings. Friends now?

BTW, I actualy sign my stuff with my real name.

[ClassWarrior]

20. It's only a tiny little violent assault.

:eyes:

NGU.

[spotbird]

23. Wasn't that the Rodney King defense? nt

[mbperrin]

24. Arrest this violent rager or publish his address.

Prefer the first, but I'll take what I can get.

[prolesunited]

26. Let the justice system work

Vigilantism would make us just as bad as them.

[mbperrin]

80. Mine was the fallback position if it doesn't work.

I do prefer the courts, but am not in favor of letting violent ragers run free if local officials won't do their job, any more than you would let a dog with rabies run down your country road out of the jurisdiction of animal control. I'd feel sorry for the dog, because the rabies weren't his fault, but this brownshirt has made his choice.

[niyad]

81. go to whitepages.com--you will find him

[avaistheone1]

28. Wakeup Huffpo! This was not a "scuffle". It was assault and battery.

Definition of SCUFFLE
1
a : to struggle at close quarters with disorder and confusion
b : to struggle (as by working odd jobs) to get by

2
a : to move with a quick shuffling gait : scurry
b : shuffle
— scuffle noun

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scuffle

Huffpo needs to clean up its act and not use the "scuffle" verbiage of FixedNews and AP.

This was not a game of touch football, or a couple of buddies scrambling for the bouquet after the bride's toss. This was the unprovoked attack on a defenseless woman who was thrown to the concrete, and then whose head and neck was stomped on by a grown man.

This is not a scuffle.

[soupkitchen]

29. Hey Aqua Buddha

Sitting on the Repub's bench
Stomping on women with bad intent
Tea running out his nose
A greasy pol wearing libertarian clothes
Taking money from every shit
Fighting bias by attacking laws against it
Hey, Aqua Buddha
You’re sure smelling like randy gouda
Hey Aqua Buddha
You’re sure sounding like a coulda, woulda

[A Simple Game]

36. Jethro, is that you? nt

[savalez]

30. This is a horrible, horrible, horrible story. What the heck

is happening to the right wing? They've lost their friggen minds.

[herbm]

32. Foot in mouth. Putting his 10 piggies into the event in any degree is an assault,

And the fact that she was "subdued" in the process of another assault only makes it worse, much, much worse. If this guy was any sort of a believer in tea party rhetoric, shouldn't he be accepting responsibility instead of making excuses? Paul is a hypacrit surrounded by cowardly bullies. I can't wait to see how Fox lionizes this dispicable piece of shit.

[iwearshoesinky]

37. Rand Paul Curbstomper a Campaign Staffer

Source: Barefoot and Progressive

The curbstomper of a defenseless woman, as Jake has now definitively proved, is Tim Profitt.

According to the google machine, a man named Tim Profitt is Rand Paul's Bourbon County coordinator:

One of the people stalking the lobby was Tim Profitt, Rand Paul’s Bourbon County coordinator. “The true change is coming,” he said, applying President Obama’s 2008 campaign slogan to Paul. “The fact that they’ve ignored the Constitution on the federal level so much really bothers me,” he said.


(...)

Also, here's a photo from the AP earlier this year, identifying Tim Profitt:



Read more: http://barefootandprogressive.blogspot.com/2010/10/is-curbstomper-rand-pauls-bourbon.html

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Kentucky bloggers have identified the Rand Paul supporter who stomped a woman last night and he is the Bourbon county coordinator.

[MinneapolisMatt]

38. Big K&R

ugh...

[SpiralHawk]

39. "What does it Profitt the Republicons if they stomp a woman's face, and yet

lose their souls?" - Jeebus

[Botany]

40. But the Rand Paul Campaign has said that haven't I.D.ed the person yet.

I'M shocked ..... Shocked I'll tell you

[Kber]

41. So a "Volunteer" is really a campaign staffer, and

and the woman who "was not injured" has a concussion and a shoulder sprain.

and "both sides do it" although, if they had an example they surely would have trotted it out by now.

I see.

[Pab Sungenis]

42. A Sink campaign worker texts her when he shouldn't and is fired immediately...

...and the media goes apeshit.

A Rand Paul campaign coordinator PHYSICALLY ASSAULTS a woman, and is NOT fired, and where is the media?

[Vincardog]

43. Let the Sheriff know he is still trying to identify him.

[avaistheone1]

47. lol

the only laugh I can get out of this so far

[Erose999]

44. Can't really tell from the photo. But if you look at the Proffitt guy's facebook likes it is

Pretty disturbing. Its all TeaParty / Paulbot / militia stuff. No music, no art, no food, nothing but RW organizations. Its like that bastard eats sleeps and breathes RW garbage and nothing but.

[chatnoir]

82. Did he hide himself on FB?

Only two listings for a Tim Proffit and neither are him.

[Iowa]

45. K&R. This guy should be in prison.

[iwearshoesinky]

46. Read up on earlier B&P posts

There's closer photos of the guy and it's pretty convincing. The picture in the op is just ironic.

[abq e streeter]

48. How long till he gets his own show on Fox?

[avaistheone1]

49. Why doesn't Rand Paul show some balls and condemn & fire this thug?

:grr:

[wordpix]

75. the headline says the Paul campaign severed ties

[Ian David]

50. Let's List the violent attacks by the Right Wingers

Let's List the violent attacks by the Right Wingers
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9389907

[cliffordu]

51. Is it ok to feel like this thug needs some of his own medicine???

[iwearshoesinky]

52. Lexington Police Issue Summons for Rand Paul Stomper

Source: Barefoot and Progressive


"Today, October 26, 2010, detectives identified the suspect, involved in the assault, as Tim Profitt. Mr. Profitt is currently being served with a criminal summons ordering him to appear before a Fayette County District Court Judge."

Read more: http://barefootandprogressive.blogspot.com/2010/10/lexington-police-issue-statement-on.html

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Run like hell Tim Profitt the law is coming for you!

[joeybee12]

53. His defense: The Constitution doesn't ban stomping!!!

Strict constitutionalist you know.

[karynnj]

60. Hey - They can use their usual argument - the word "stomp" is not in the Constitution

and - as he said - he thought this small unarmed woman would "hurt" "Rand".

[countrydad58]

73. The other prick

who wrestled her to the ground had on a pin "Don't tread on me". You just can't make this shit up. Neo- Confederate Nazis!

[Turborama]

54. Could this incident be what once and for all flushes Rand Paul's campaign down the drain?

One can only hope.

[avaistheone1]

58. I think Rand Paul has just about hit bottom - with thugs like this acting out in his campaign.

In most states Rand Paul would be toast after an incident like this. imo

[karynnj]

61. Don't think so - the campaign did essentially fire him and made an idiotic

even handed comment that violence on both sides needs to stop. Not classy, but when was Paul ever classy.

[Bitwit1234]

63. PS can someone point me in the direction of Democrats

beating up on women or even starting fights with republicans and tea bags at rallies.

[karynnj]

64. No - that's why I said "idiotic"

I have gone to rallies where there were Republicans protesting. They always were essentially ignored. There were times in the news where the police or secret service remove people from events - but that was professional and not Democratic campaign staff. (Not to mention not beating them up.)

[wordpix]

76. "violence on both sides?" What Dems have been engaged in violent acts like this or spitting on

African American Congressmen or killing doctors who perform abortions?

[karynnj]

79. That was my point - in characterizing that as "iiotic"

I can't think of any example.

[veganlush]

55. Corporations are people. Money is speech...

...stomping heads is a manifestation of free speech..

[iwearshoesinky]

In that case...

Carrying lead when Paul supporters are around is one of my mineral rights.

[avaistheone1]

57. I hope he is arrested, convicted and gets a good long jail sentence

And I hope the moveon protester sues the hell out of him and Rand Paul.

[DFW]

59. You mean the suspect didn't come forward on his own?

Good Christian that he no doubt is, I would have thought he would have come forward
on his own, full of contrition, begging his victim and the prosecutor for forgiveness.

That he did not is shocking, positively shocking, I tell you!

[Bitwit1234]

62. No no his defense is it was woman if Paul can hogtie

one and make her worship Buddha and goodness knows what else, I can stomp the head of one.

[Heywood J]

65. Fuck the summons.

Send two deputies out there to cuff him and drag his ass back to Lexington! None of this voluntary surrender bullshit.

If we send the SWAT team after a nonviolent drug offender, we can send deputies to pick up a violent thug.

[countrydad58]

78. Summons?

In my neck of the woods a summons is for civil cases & warrant for arrest for criminal,with the man ,guns, cuffs ,& all at your door ready to haul your ass to jail.

[lunatica]

66. I'm very happy the police are doing their job on this!

It shouldn't be a surprise however since we really are supposed to be a Country of Laws. I guess the fact that so many of us thought no one would be detained for this criminal act shows how low this country has sunk and how our expectations have deteriorated.

[Indi Guy]

67. Here's the video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK7b7i-cMRs

[Uncle Joe]

68. Kicked and recommended, he could have broken her neck or given this woman a concussion.

Thanks for the thread, iwearshoesinky.

[Darth_Kitten]

69. maybe bumped and recommended......

:) Kicked is not a good word now. :(

[Uncle Joe]

70. I believe kicked and recommended is still ok,

just don't use stomped and recommended.

:hi:

[Darth_Kitten]

71. gotcha!

:)

[wordpix]

77. She DOES have a concussion

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[Doctor_J]

72. Having a 13 point lead in the polls means you can be more selective

of your friends