Meet the Gun-Toting Tea Partier Who Beat Up a Woman at Rand Paul's Debate

[one_voice]

Last night, video emerged of a Rand Paul supporter wrestling a female protester to the ground and treading on her face. Today, gun advocate Mike Pezzano was outed as one of those men. Who revealed his identity? Other Tea Partiers.

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Interestingly, Laura Graas—who first identified Pezzano—is a self-professed Tea Partier, the embattled founder of the Palin Twitter "Twibe." (She quit the Twibe when Palin endorsed Rand Paul: "I've been sending almost daily communications to SarahPAC telling them about this race and begging them to call me. No one has called," she explained.)

Upset by the violent video from Rand Paul's debate, Graas used her connections with other Tea Party bloggers to sift through photos and identify Pezzano. By email, Graas elaborated on her politics:

Yes, I am a Republican. I prefer to be identified as a Lincoln Republican. I support the Fourteenth Amendment as a pro-life voter whereas Rand Paul does not. <...> I supported the Tea Party candidate Bill Johnson, whom you may have never heard of thanks to big media. <...> They're thugs. Everyone knows it but no one will go public because the Campaign for Liberty is just too scary and powerful. He isn't "the Tea Party candidate". Never was. He astroturfed Kentucky like an SEIU thug.

...and her fear of a vast Rand Paulian conspiracy:

I admit, I am scared. I'm afraid to talk to you..........but so are a lot of other people and somebody has to have a spine. <...> Rand Paul isn't going to do anything to me,.........but his supporters might. I'm afraid of them. Over at Liberty Forest, during the primary, there were calls for volunteers to "crush" me. They still despise me. They smear me around the internet.

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Many of the bullies we see in schools, have parents that are just like these thugs. They learn what to do, and how to intimidate from mom and dad. I think things are going to get worse before they get better.

The media didn't give this incident anywhere near the exposure it should have gotten. Not too mention, that far too many people sympathize with what these animals did to this woman. Look for this kind of thing to spread.

[YOY]

1. "pro-life voter". There you go, Pink...there you go.

So "pro-life" that they are willing to kill.

Wonder if he has a family. Of his own. Kids I mean.

The most vocal of these guys usually don't.

[county worker]

2. As a SEIU member, there are no SEIU thugs. Sometimes I wish there were.

Had there been some SEIU thugs at the Kentucky Paul thing maybe we would have protected Valle.