Rand Paul Did Not Have Longstanding Dispute With Leftist Neighbor, ‘It Was a ‘Blindside’
Cassandra Fairbanks
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A senior advisor to Senator Rand Paul is setting the record straight about last week’s assault — asserting that reports of a longstanding dispute between the neighbors is fake news and referring to the attacker as “violent” and “disturbed.”
Earlier on Thursday, Paul’s neighbor Rene Boucher plead not guilty to breaking six of the senator’s ribs.
“Last week Senator Paul was vigorously assaulted by someone in his neighborhood. This is a serious criminal matter involving serious injury, and is being handled by local and federal authorities,” Doug Stafford’s statement began.
The statement went on to call out the fake news which claimed that the neighbors had been at odds over landscaping, asserting that the Pauls had not spoken with him in “many years.”
“As to reports of a longstanding dispute with the attacker, the Pauls have had no conversations with him in many years. The first ‘conversation’ with the attacker came after Sen. Paul’s ribs were broken. This was not a ‘fight’, it was a blindside, violent attack by a disturbed person. Anyone claiming otherwise is simply uninformed or seeking media attention,” Stafford concluded.
Earlier this week, GQ published an article declaring that Senator Paul is a bad neighbor because he’s a Libertarian and heavily implied that he deserved to be assaulted.
“So, let’s read between the lines a bit here. Rand Paul is an asshole neighbor. He bought a house in a neighborhood that has certain rules with regard to lawns, and he decided that he doesn’t need to follow those rules because of his belief in ‘property rights’ that don’t actually exist,” the GQ article asserted. “This is, at its core, the problem with libertarianism. Libertarians don’t want to follow the rules that we as a society have agreed upon, because they feel those rules step on their freedoms. And sometimes they might even be right, but that doesn’t mean that they are above those rules and can do whatever they want.”
According to Boucher’s Facebook page, he is a staunch Democrat and leftist — though he claims that the attack wasn’t politically motivated and was part of a long dispute about leaves.
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