Wowza: US Senate Candidate Scott Ashjian Files Pubic Integrity Unit and Bar Complaint Against Deputy DA Bernie Zadrowski, Says Media “Defamed” Him, Tells FBI His Famliy Subject to “Numerous Threats,” Wants Feds to Probe “Voter Intimdiation, Defamation and Extortion”
What a fun headline. The fallout from this may not be so fun, though, if any of Ashjian’s claims and complaints are proven out.
As Flashed by Ralston just now:
In one of the more amazing news releases I have seen in a political campaign, Tea Party of Nevada U.S. Senate hopeful Scott Ashjian says he has filed a bar complaint against Deputy DA Bernie Zadrowski, a former Clark County GOP chairman, saying he wrongly went after him on false bad check charges. Ashjian also said news outlets that reported an arrest warrant was issued defamed him and he also said he has gone to the FBI to report “numerous threats” against himself, his family and TPN members. He wants the feds to probe “voter intimdiation, defamation and extortion.”
And this: “I consider this entire affair (the bad check charges) to be part of a wider effort to discredit my candidacy and the Tea Party of Nevada, to the detriment of a fair and open elections process.”
Wow.
This will cement in the minds of some folks that Ashjian is a kook. But if he can prove what he says, watch out.
Here is the release (compliments of Ralston’s blog): ashjian_release_Apr_2
Among other things, Ashjian says the $5,000 “bounced check” reported by the media was in fact a stopped payment to a contractor he discovered was not legal to do business in the state.
Says, also, he intends to “vigorously defend my right to run for office despite the threats, false charges, political retaliation and attempts to challenge my candidacy.”
