Arizona mayoral candidate says he was attacked by fellow Republican after tea party debate
Source: Phoenix New Times
Walt Opaska, a candidate running for mayor of Glendale, says he was attacked after a Glendale Tea party debate last night in a Denny's parking lot.
Opaska says that, at about 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, as he was walking out of the restaurant near 51st Avenue and Thunderbird Road, someone told him there were about a dozen of his campaign signs in the back of a truck in the parking lot.
"I suspected that this person was removing my signs from roadside locations and so I took pictures of the person, his license plate and the signs in the back of his truck in order to provide documentation to law enforcement," Opaska says in a statement emailed to supporters. "At that point, the man confronted me, threatened to hit me, did land a punch to my back and held me against a car by the collar and by my jacket."
... Opaska believes that -- based on the signs that had been plucked from their various spots across the city and loaded in the back of the truck -- his alleged attacker is a supporter of State Representative Jerry Weiers, a fellow Republican and one of his opponents in the mayoral race.
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/community/glendale/articles/2012/08/09/20120809glendale-mayoral-candidate-opaska-assaulted.html
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