the strangest act of (possible) political terrorism
The background here: David Vitter is the Louisiana Senator who got in trouble due to purchasing the services of a prostitute. He has received a primary opponent in the name of “Stormy Daniels”, a Porn star, who is not going to win, but whose run serves as a reminder of the the prostitute scandal through the minds of the voters for the next year. AND SO…
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
“No one has seen anything like this before…not 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. .”
Famous last words: “If someone’s trying to send me a message like this, it’s not going to work.”  And for the conspiratorial-minded out there, she has now been charged with domestic violence (news mixed in with footage of the car-bombing here). Is David Vitter running in the same Louisiana political tradition as Huey Long with regards to his political enemies? 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.