For those of you wondering why Senate Majority Leader Scott Bundgaard missed so many floor votes yesterday, it’s because he was taking a polygraph test.
According to his attorney, he “aced” it.
Of course, he “aced” a test so unreliable that private employers are banned from using it in most workplace investigations.
Still unresolved is the question of why it wasn’t until days after the incident that the gun was mentioned. It would be easier to buy the story that he was trying to protect Aubry Ballard’s reputation if he and his hirelings weren’t at the same time making her out to be a drunken slutty lunatic.
By the way, good to see the Republicans kept this guy on as Majority Leader. Taking time out for stuff like this doesn’t affect his job or anything.
Press release from Bundgaard’s attorney after the jump. He’s now counting on a lawyer rather than a PR flack. Yes, he finally wised up and realized that Jason Rose is no Rumpole of the Bailey.
Arizona State Senator Scott Bundgaard Aces Lie Detector Test; Additional Information Developing
(PHOENIX, ARIZ. – MARCH 11, 2011) – Some have questioned the validity of Arizona State Senator Scott Bundgaard’s statements about an incident following a charitable event with his ex-girlfriend.
Can they do so now?
On Wednesday afternoon Bundgaard undertook an extensive polygraph test covering all of the relevant and tough questions concerning the incident in question. Please contact Mark Goldman for the test questions and results.
“Scott ducked no questions. And we sought out a polygrapher with excellent credentials. The result? He didn’t just pass the test, he aced it,” said Bundgaard attorney Mark Goldman.
“This has been a difficult couple of weeks for my family, my colleagues and all involved. Many rushed to judgment. I hope today’s results will give pause to some and encourage others to re-evaluate. I told people I would clear my name. This is one step in that process. There will be others in the next several days. We are working closely with law enforcement and are optimistic of a resolution soon,” Bundgaard said.
For more information or to obtain a copy of the report please contact Mark Goldman.
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Mark Goldman? The same Mark Goldman that was one of Andy Thomas’ flunkies? Oh, this oughta be good.
Arizona is quickly surpassing Florida as the Lunatic Capitol of the World.
I don’t understand why so many people believe that it is impossible for a man to be the victim of domestic violence or assault at the hands of a woman?
Would everybody be doubting this story if it was reversed and was a Senator Jennifer Bundgaard who had said that she received a busted lip and a black eye at the hands of her boyfriend, John Ballard, who got mad at her while she was driving him home from a Dancing with the Stars event where he said that she was dancing inappropriately with Mark Warner, and that she pulled her car over on the freeway after her boyfriend threw her extra clothes out the car window, and that she ran back to the car & tried to remove him from the driver’s seat when he jumped in it & tried to drive away in her own private property without her?
All I’m saying here is that Bundgaard’s story is plausible & that I sense quite a bit of a double standard & sexism here.
It’s either sexism here because he’s “supposed to be able to control” his own girlfriend or it’s sexism because “no man could possibly get beaten up by a girl”. Domestic violence & abuse go both ways. We have at least one local battered men’s shelter. Should we mock the men who go there? Or should we blame them for their predicaments? How about blaming female victims of abuse & rape? I hear some sick people who actually say things like: “Well, if you saw what she was wearing, then you’d know that she had it coming.”
If Bundgaard was the victim of assault here, that information will come out & it should. There should be a full investigation into this matter by the Arizona Senate Ethics Committee without grandstanding by anybody who has already judged Bundgaard guilty before the investigation is complete.
I, for one, am not ready to point fingers at anybody involved in this situation until the investigation is complete & all of the information comes out. If Bundgaard is found to be guilty of assault, then throw the book at him. If he was a victim here, then we need to be on his side, just like we need to support all victims of violence.
Oops. I caught my error I meant Kurt Warner, not Mark Warner. See how politics messes with your brain! Even though, I know that neither Kurt Warner nor his wife really had anything to do with this situation, Senator Mark Warner of Virginia & his wife had even less to do with it. Lol!
Tyler M, you’d have a point with that if people were actually suggesting that men can’t be victims of domestic violence. But carry on that argument you’re having with that strawman. You are kicking its straw butt all over the place!
Tyler M
The main issue is let’s say your story is plausible… Where did this gun suddenly come from? She punch him in the face before or after she pulled the gun… If she did pull the gun did she threaten to shoot him? Try to shoot him? He keeps adding things to the story that just everyone think this is a bunch of crap.
Bundgaard isWinning, Duh!
I must admit that I take no small pleasure in seeing the bloom come off Jason Rose in this as well.
Jason-
Any reference to a gun is all unconfirmed hearsay from what I can tell so far. But once again, if Bundgaard did mention her brandishing his gun, this is still plausible.
One thing we do know for sure is that the statements Bundgaard has made regarding this situation have all served the purpose of what Bundgaard thinks will protect his reputation. Whether his statements are true or not, we’ll find that out sooner or later. But it is also possible that Bundgaard held back in releasing to the public information about the gun in order to protect Ballard.
If there was a gun involved I hope that he didn’t withhold this information from law enforcement. But I can see why he wouldn’t talk about this publicly. And having additional information that there was a gun somehow involved in the situation does not in any way contradict what had already been publicly stated.
I still believe in innocence until proven guilty.
Tyler-
Bundgaard held back the information to “protect Ballard.” Have you been paying any attention to the stories from his supporters on this? I think protecting her reputation is pretty far down on their priority list.
You “hope” he didn’t hold back the information from law enforcement? I think it’s pretty frickin’ obvious he did given that the two officers on the scene didn’t report it, and the off duty officer that initially saw and reported the incident made no mention of it. I find it hard to believe that an arrest in a violent incident would not have included a pat down or a search of the vehicle. Heck, I’ve had my vehicle searched in a routine traffic stop.
As for innocence until proven otherwise, I’d do that if the story Bundgaard himself tells didn’t make him look like such a jackass.
Tedski-
Would you say that a female who shared such a story in the exact same predicament looked like a jackass or call her some other choice term that people might use despairingly in reference to women? My point above is that there is a double standard here & sexism appears to play part in the attack on Bundgaard.
In this regard, I have actually been much more disappointed with commentary I’ve heard in posts on conservative leaning blogs. We need to give both Bundgaard & Ballard the benefit of the doubt until all information is released.
And Tedski-
On another issue why the heck did you give police permission to search your vehicle during a routine traffic stop?
Bundgaard is a liar.
Bundgaard is a liar and a serial abuser. Tyler is a fool who carries water for the right wing nasties.
Ooh tyler M.
Innocence until proven guilty is a nice thing to say over and over again but what would it take for you to say this guy is a liar and fraud?
He has his story… She has hers, there is a police report… If a jury came back and he was convicted of assault and battery would you then say its time for him to stepdown? Or that he is a liar?
Something tells me you would say being convicted of assault doesn’t prove anything about the case itself and that the jury was tainted by the same sexism you accuse others of.
So all you really are is an apologist for him…
I’ll tell you what doesn’t pass the smell test: obamacare.
Senator Bungaard was ousted today:
http://azstarnet.com/news/state-and-regional/article_b25786a8-4f59-11e0-9e09-001cc4c03286.html
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