Stormy Daniels' Political Advisor May Have Been Hit By Car Bomb: Reports

Porn star Stormy Daniels' potential senatorial campaign was rocked yesterday by an explosion that blew up her political advisor's car in New Orleans, according to local news reports.

The advisor, Brian Welch, was not injured in the explosion.

In surveillance footage aired on TV affiliate ABC-26, a man is seen opening the drivers'-side door, throwing an object in the car and the vehicle exploding.

"It looks like the pictures you see in Iraq following a roadside car bombing," reporter Glynn Boyd said of the damage to Welch's car. "It looks like someone, somehow, was trying to send a message."

Welch, told ABC-26 that he is awaiting more forensic information, but believes that someone intended to harm him. "When you rule out everything else, you're sort of left with the obvious."

"No one has seen anything like this before...not in such a dramatic fashion," says Welch. "It's too early for me to go pointing fingers. I'd like to hear officially what happened and then we can take it from there. If someone's trying to send me a message like this, it's not going to work."

Welch also described his experience to WGSO 990 on Tuesday morning, claiming that he would not be deterred.

Local political blogger Stephen Sabludowsky noted:

Some of the cynical are pointing fingers at possible future or past opponents or their associates. However, it is possible that the incident could have been totally coincidental or have nothing to do with politics, whatsoever.

A spokesman for the New Orleans police department did not return calls from Huffington Post.

Recently, Daniels formed a Senate exploratory committee, the first official step toward her run for U.S. Senate against David Vitter, who was linked to the "D.C. Madam."

Comments

[ozwald888]

11:40 PM on 07/29/2009

One thing we have seen throughout history is that repugs play for keeps!

They did Kennedy (both Bobby AND Jack), so why not some porn star for Senate???

[Palemoon]

10:20 PM on 07/29/2009

The GOP can't stand going down in defeat.

[fem56]

08:57 PM on 07/29/2009

After Davis was recalled in California we had over 100 candidates running for govenor including including a porn star and a lot of other very interesting characters. It was a very entertainly election.

[Palemoon]

10:19 PM on 07/29/2009

Yep, the people of California deserved what they got too, lol. I bet they wished they had Grey Davis back now. ;o)

[PAposter]

03:49 PM on 07/29/2009

Is there a reason why a car bombing in the U.S. is not be reported?

[WorldGoneWild]

03:33 PM on 07/29/2009

Hmmm. Stormy must be a real threat to Vitter's senate seat for her to get arrested for a domestic violence misdemeanor and her advisor's car getting blown up in the course of a few days.

[george389]

10:51 PM on 07/29/2009

go phitin phils!!

[den1953]

02:00 PM on 07/29/2009

This is America check her birth certificate,or check if she's a Arab,check if she can jump,she if she likes fried chicken,wait check if she believes in running America into the ground,maybe her father is a Kenyan?

[NoSillyName]

01:29 PM on 07/29/2009

"Stormy Daniels"?

[Notawingnut]

01:17 PM on 07/29/2009

Republicans only value women based on their attractiveness. Therefore Stormy Daniels is a great threat to David Vitter. She could be my senator any day of the week.

[icemilkcoffee]

12:58 PM on 07/29/2009

Stormy Daniels- the next Sarah Palin for the GOP!

[WhatDaBleep]

01:39 PM on 07/29/2009

I'd vote for Stormy - she probably knows more about politics and the Constitution than Sarah does.

[PWM]

02:26 PM on 07/29/2009

A bobblehead doll knows more than Palin.

[redsongia]

02:43 PM on 07/29/2009

I've only heard her on a few short news segments, but she is very well spoken.

I am not in Louisiana and don't know what issues she's championing, other than not lying about her sexual past (not really enough on it's own to make a Senator).

She's certainly worth listening too, though. From the looks of her interviews, she is actually taking this run seriously, (unlike the porn star, Mary Cary who ran for Gov. of California).

[progressivegreg]

12:56 PM on 07/29/2009

Was someone wearing a diaper seen fleeing the scene?

[Hagrid]

12:47 PM on 07/29/2009

Vitter, the whoremonger was most likely behind this attack.
Scared for his political career

[motoGpifupleez]

12:21 PM on 07/29/2009

I guess the RethugliKlans view her as a credible threat.
Perhaps her advisor had some interesting videotape of Vitter and Co.
You KNOW this story is going to get much better.

[noweknow]

12:18 PM on 07/29/2009

Maybe one of her HIV STD porn stars can offer herself as a freebie to Vitter?

[Wide Stance]

11:44 AM on 07/29/2009

It has to be Vitter. Were any dia pers found at the scene?

[Dial8]

11:27 AM on 07/29/2009

She'd be a better senator than Vitter... at least she's forthright about her sexual history... and not posturing as some kind of "values" candidate.

Politicians are whores anyway... why not...

I think Reagan said it best... "Politics is the worlds second oldest profession, I have come to realize that it bears close resemblance to the first" ... or something along those lines.

[kwaut lizard]

02:27 AM on 08/09/2009

Nice one. At least she comes from a successful business background.
More than I can say for the last duly elected President of that country.