Teabagger thug and Sharron Angle supporter punches woman

http://www.lvrj.com/news/fight-erupts-at-reid--angle-election-forum-103685344.html

Sep. 23, 2010

By LAURA MYERS

JESSICA EBELHAR/LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL


"I didn't expect anything like this, not in a million years," said the
Rev. Robin Joyce, one of the organizers of the event at Faith Lutheran
Junior/Senior High School in Summerlin.

"Our whole aim was to have an educational forum to hear from the
candidates about their economic positions."

Instead, tempers flared in the high-stakes race between the Democratic
incumbent and the Tea Party upstart three weeks before early voting
starts Oct. 16.

"He punched me twice, so I punched him back twice," Kay Mehta said as
she nursed a red, tearing eye and waited for police to arrive.

"I was just defending myself."

No arrests were made.

Police interviewed those involved for a report on the incident.

The names of all of the participants were not released.

At the start of the 7 p.m. forum, the audience was asked not to
applaud or to shout out as Reid answered questions in a prerecorded
videotape because he is in Washington, D.C. Angle answered a
moderator's questions live from the stage.

But partisan members of the audience became boisterous as the hourlong
forum progressed.

As Angle was giving her closing statement, a stream of Reid supporters
among the 800-member audience began to leave the auditorium, which has
close rows of theater-style seating.

A Reid backer, Kelly Tanaka, said one male Angle supporter refused to
let her pass in front of him.

She alleged he tried to push her over the seats in front of him when
she tried to pass.

That is when the Reid and Angle partisans began to tussle and then
exchange blows.

Tanaka accused the Angle supporter of hitting her.

Mehta said she then got involved.

Some bystanders said one of the women shoved the man back into his
seat when he tried to get up.

The fight escalated after Angle finished speaking and blew a kiss to
supporters in the audience.

She left quickly to catch a flight to Reno as the scuffle disrupted
the auditorium.

"I was just trying to get him off her," said Mehta, a Reid supporter.

"We were just trying to get by."

The auditorium was packed mostly with conservative Republican Angle
supporters who were drawn to the event sponsored by the Faith Lutheran
Business Advisory Council, the Christian Businessmen's Network,
Businesswomen for Christ and Media Fellowship International.

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Nice folks, these teabaggers, eh?

Harry