Republican House candidate Allen West, who is challenging second-term Rep. Ron Klein (D-FL), has in the past exhibited a stern approach to Democratic Party trackers. And now at a recent event, West directed a Dem tracker to leave, which got the crowd cheering — and more importantly, some leather-clad security men ejecting the guy, too.
West has recently come under scrutiny for his campaign’s ties to a criminal biker gang. It’s not clear whether the leather-clad security men who escorted the tracker away were themselves in any way connected to the “Outlaws” biker bang — the West campaign has described them as Vietnam veterans, “not thugs.” (West has pointed out that he could not possibly be an Outlaw — they do not accept African-Americans as members.)
Thing is, this tracker is lucky he only encountered possible bikers and not West himself. After all, West built his conservative political career on a particular event from his own military career — when he tortured an Iraqi policeman, and was proud of it.
Hmm, maybe we could get a Joe Miller/Allen West ticket in 2012? That would be one hell of a Republican national convention.
Here is the local NBC report:
And here is the raw tracker video:
(Via Benjy Sarlin at the Daily Beast.)
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