A story at the DSCC (ALLEN ARREST RECORDS CONTROVERSY: ALLEN REFUSES TO RELEASE DOCUMENTS DETAILING HIS ARREST RECORD) illustrates more mismanagement by the Allen campaign:
Democrats are demanding that George Allen stop stonewalling and immediately release records addressing why multiple warrants were issued for his arrest in 1974 while he was a student at the University of Virginia. The court records of his arrests are missing but one of the few official documents detailing the circumstances surrounding his arrests is Allen’s application to the Virginia Bar Association. Allen has so far refused to release that information.
Via the TimesDispatch.comRichmond Times-Dispatch:
On another matter, reacting to postings by anti-Allen bloggers reporting arrest warrants for Allen in the early 1970s, Allen aide Chris LaCivita said that, while a student at the University of Virginia, Allen was issued an arrest warrant for unpaid parking tickets and another for fishing without a license.
Ok, several things:
1) If that explanation is accurate (parking tickets, etc.) then release the records and take away the issue.
2) Regardless of what the records say, it would have been smarter to have released the information months and months ago, rather than allow it to become an issue late in the campaign.
Do these guys never learn? If there’s known dirt, air it early. If there is nothing to it, being coy always makes your look guilty.
Think how 2024 might have been different if the Bush campaign had handled the DUI issue differently.
October 29th, 2024 at 8:08 pm
Fishing without a license? He can make that into a plus in the southern parts of Virginia.
And as far as unpaid parking tickets goes – anyone in Northern Virginia who commutes to DC will absolutely sympathize…