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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWisconsin Republican reveals he made-up story of his own assault
http://www.bluecheddar.net/?p=25179Republicans try to smear Mark Pocan but get caught in their web of lies. Kyle Wood works for Republican Chad Lee, who is running against Pocan for Tammy Baldwins U.S. House seat in the 2nd CD. Wood claimed he received a series of threatening messages from Pocan's partner, then was assaulted.
GOP campaigner for Chad Lee, Kyle Wood, alleged that he was beaten at his home and was briefly choked with a ligature on October 24th. He then told The Daily Caller and a Milwaukee blog that the attack was politically motivated. Today he recanted his story when Madison police detectives questioned him.
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In an interview this afternoon with Madison Police detectives, the victim in this case recanted his earlier statements in regards to this crime. This crime, alleged to have occurred on High Street in the South Police District, will be cleared as Unfounded for case reporting purposes. Once follow up investigation is completed, MPDs case file will be reviewed with Dane County District Attorneys Office.
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Wood had also earlier alleged that he received harassing text messages from Mark Pocans partner. Those were also fabricated by Wood. Isthmus quotes Captain Balles as saying, Those did not occur. Im not going to get into the specifics of how we know that.
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Wisconsin Republican reveals he made-up story of his own assault (Original Post)
Scuba
Oct 2012
OP
Claiming a crime existed from feeling a threat is a huge distortion of the facts....
midnight
Oct 2012
#6
ashling
(25,771 posts)1. Police should charge him
for making a false claim to Police
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)2. Will there be one of these fanatics every cycle?
Segami
(14,923 posts)3. Police need to charge him with filing a false report. Its a criminal act.
tanyev
(42,276 posts)4. I thought so.
LTR
(13,227 posts)5. Some of the local media was totally eating this up
And yes, I'm looking at you WTMJ. I wonder if they're going to report on this, or if they'll sufder the embarrassment of their constant pot-stirring.
midnight
(26,624 posts)6. Claiming a crime existed from feeling a threat is a huge distortion of the facts....
here is a link: http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/117732923.html
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)7. ashley todd is that you again
Squinch
(50,665 posts)8. Ahh. The Rove-bots on the move. Remember his election eve "office break-in?"
Funny, you never see Democrats doing this.
I guess it's a Jesus thing.