Groan
Guess who Ashley Todd, the woman who perpetrated the “B” carving beat-down hoax, was a supporter of during the Republican primaries?
In March, Ms. Todd was asked to leave a grass-roots group of Ron Paul supporters in Brazos County, Texas, group leader Dustan Costine said. He said Ms. Todd posed as a supporter of former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and called the local Republican committee seeking information about its campaign strategies.
“She would call the opposing campaign and pretend she was on their campaign to get information,” Mr. Costine said last night. “We had to remove her because of the tactics she displayed. After that we had nothing to do with her.”
About a month earlier, he said, Ms. Todd sent an e-mail to the Ron Paul group saying her tires were slashed and that campaign paraphernalia had been stolen from her car because she supported Mr. Paul.
“She’s the type of person who wants to be recognized,” Mr. Costine said.
The bright spot: you heard that right. She was asked to leave a Ron Paul Meetup group for being too crazy. Good job Brazos County.
In related news, that same Post-Gazette article has the best news article conclusion I’ve seen all year.
On her MySpace profile, where her screen name is “Italian Pajamas,” Ms. Todd gives her occupation as “Being a badass.” Next to her picture, she references the title of a song by the group Panic at the Disco: “Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her cloths (sic) off,” but adds to it “but its (sic) better if you do.”
Among the books she lists as favorites: “The Scarlet Letter.”
Give a golf clap to Post-Gazette staff writers Michael A. Fuoco, Jerome L. Sherman and Sadie Gurman for that one.