UPDATE: Coverage in Washington Post with a link to video:
A Democratic activist who verbally confronted U.S. Sen. George Allen (R) at a campaign rally in Charlottesville today was shoved, put into a chokehold and thrown against a window by three men wearing Allen stickers, according to a widely disseminated video of the incident.
W. Michael Stark, who identified himself in an e-mail after the incident as a law student, yelled a question at Allen about whether he had ever spit on his first wife, an unsubstantiated charge that has been circulating on liberal blogs on the Internet. Allen supporters hauled him away from the senator as television cameras rolled.
Mr. Stark plans to file charges.
UPDATE: John and Pam have both updated their posts to indicate that the man who was assaulted while questioning Allen is a law student at the U. of Virginia named Mike Stark who is also a blogger at Calling All Wingnuts.
According to John in a new post at AMERICAblog, Mr. Stark asked Senator Allen about the “spitting” story.
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I leave home to get a flu shot and see what happens?
Pam’s House Blend: George Allen’s peeps tackle man asking a question