Keep it classy, Assemblyman Cobb.

From Anjeannette:

Destroying, stealing or defacing the opposing side’s signs is a typical campaign season activity. But it’s a bit unusual for a sitting Assemblyman, who’s running for higher office, to get caught doing it.

Too bad for Assemblyman Ty Cobb, R-Reno, he decided to trash a campaign sign at a busy intersection in full view of motorists who recognized him.

An attendee leaving the Nevada Bighorns Unlimited dinner Friday night said he watched Cobb get out of a car at the corner of Moana and Kietzke lanes and kick to pieces a campaign sign for Assemblywoman Sheila Leslie, D-Reno, who is running for Senate in a different district.

I called Cobb to ask him about the incident. He laughed nervously and said he would get back to me. An hour later I received this response:

“I was leaving the Nevada Bighorn dinner over the weekend with some friends and supporters of my campaign. We passed some campaign signs and goofing around, a Leslie sign got damaged. I have called Sheila but could not reach her and apologized to her and asked if I might be allowed to replace the sign. It was a poor attempt at humor and was not done maliciously.”

Cobb is running in a Republican primary to replace state Sen. Randolph Townsend, R-Reno.

Ok, let’s just review.

The witness said Cobb was driving, got out of his car, walked over to the Leslie campaign sign, and kicked it to bits.

Cobb’s version is that he was passing the signs (walking? driving?) and messing ar0und with friends and Leslie’s sign just happened to get damaged.  And then he said it was a “poor attempt at humor.”

Question:  If you were just messing around and, say, accidentally tripped over the same sign a dozen times, destroying it in the process, why would you then say it was a “poor attempt” at being funny?  Wouldn’t you just say it was an accident?

Cobb’s own words about the incident convict him, I think.