Ashley Todd, McCain Volunteer Who Faked Attack in Pa., Gets Probation

PITTSBURGH — A former John McCain campaign volunteer who falsely claimed she was attacked in Pittsburgh because she had the candidate's bumper sticker on her car has been sentenced to nine months of probation.

Police say 21-year-old Ashley Todd falsely claimed a Barack Obama supporter robbed and assaulted her near an automatic teller machine in October, scratching a backward "B" onto her cheek in the process.

Todd, of College Station, Texas, will enter a probation program for first-time offenders. If she completes the program without incident, her arrest record will be expunged. An Allegheny County judge on Friday also ordered her to perform 50 hours of community service.

She didn't comment as she left the courtroom.

Comments

[thepoliticalcat]

But her name will never be forgotten!! Ashley Todd. Dumb enough to carve the "B" the wrong way!

[TakingBackTheUSA]

Where are the tr0||ies? Figured they be commenting all over this since one of their own was defamed... Glad that they aren't here nonetheless.

[lvdragonlady]

She lied and promoted hat.red and this is what she gets?
She needs some major counseling otherwise there is a chance she will do this again and the outcome could be a whole lot worse.

[GeorgeP922]

Proves AGAIN AND AGAIN, that our country is so deathly afraid of right wing extremists that we treat them with kid gloves when they commit crimes.

I hope in the sake of justice, we burn this girl's name in the political venacular.

Why? Simply for the fact that the media turns it's head from something this ugly, covering racism brought BIG ratings in the 90's, not so much anymore.

So, who in the media will refer to this as the most devestating race based politics of 2008? doubt it will be any.

[mairs]

She needs Hayden's tat... "Live life with no regrets". Without regrets one doesn't need to feel bad about anything.

[Whinger]

Fifty hours probation and a lifetime of shame, let's hope she's not a repeat offender!

[BeasleysMom]

We didn't know it at the time, but this young woman is the face of future for the gops!

[TXOBAMAGIRL73]

Before the end of these 8 yrs they all will have craved backward Bs into thier faces and be stone nuts!!! Good luck with that GOP couldn't happen to a better group of sub-humans!!!

[Grunty1]

We knew it then

Playing the victim to self inflicted injuries? Obvious mental illness? Too dense to figure out which direction the B should go?

Sounds like a typical Rushpublican to me.

[CR46]

I hope this girl gets the mental health treatment she needs, but mental health treatment is not available or affordable to most adults in this country. I also hope she gets some help with her dyslexia.

[robXdion]

How about hoping no black men were attacked because of her lies?

[mairs]

Good point. The eternal scapegoat, black men.

[thepoliticalcat]

That was what really upset me about her. She didn't care that the cops would have picked up any black man they found within a mile of where she claimed she was attacked and beaten them blind.

[TXOBAMAGIRL73]

HHAHAhaaha LOL, I think she was in the mirror...B­ut she could use alot of Dr Phil,,, Imagine walking around the rest of your natural life with this backward B on your face, unless she has plastic surgery...­But everytime I think about I laugh until I'm in tears!!!

[mairs]

It was very lightly scratched in, just a red line. No scarlet letter for her.

[factotem]

Republicans think this girl has fine moral character. She should ask to be Obama's Supreme Court Nominee.

[dgh94104]

She'll be back in 2012, but will pay someone to carve the initial "B" on her cheek correctly this time.

[TXOBAMAGIRL73]

Not on the same cheek ...I hope!!!! Lmao!!!

[Abby1]

Will she be the new Republican spokesperson?

[kkent]

No, they will use that guy in Nevada who said he was a war veteran campaigning for the democrats. He was a fraud. Funny how those kind of stories don't make in HP.

[sourapples]

Please... HP and every other new organization started reporting on this story BEFORE everyone realized she was a fraud. Both McCain and Obama's camps also issued statements as well.

[Grunty1]

Hopefully, she gets the mental help that she needs.

[GeorgeP922]

I didn't know they had rehab for right wing extremism.

This girl isn't sick, she just got caught up in the clownish and ironically name "College Republicans" group.

Aside from the terrible terrible racism, it's not beyond any activist to go to an extreme, but the racial part really ruined her case.

[jl4141]

We can only hope she picks up the Republican Party banner that Joe the Plumber dropped.

[Jamie Kowalski]

In tomorrow's news, she gets her own talk show.

[d00derman]

On Fox News

[Grunty1]

Yup.

[GeorgeP922]

Since when does Fox news NOT pick former pageant winners, actresses and actress/models?

If they want frumpy plump women, they got Glen Beck and Neil Cavuto for that roll.