Crazy Jack Davis had a very, well, crazy day. This is fairly normal for crazy people, though few profoundly crazy people have days as profoundly crazy as Crazy Jack Davis did today.
First, he dropped out of every debate. All of them. Why? Well, he's crazy. He's crazy and his staff knows he's crazy. Crazy doesn't play so well on TV.
Independent Jack Davis, who is the object of attacks from all sides in NY-26, just announced he will not participate in any debates, opting instead to hold an eletronic town hall this Saturday "where voters can ask me any question they want and get an honest answer."
A debate hosted by Channel 2 WGRZ was supposed to take place tomorrow night.
In a statement released by his campaign, Davis slammed both his major party opponents - Democrat Kathy Hochul and Republican Jane Corwin - calling them "professional politicians" who are "lying about me and my record" - not to mention their own respective records, "taking credit for work done by others."
How very Bob Dole of him, though in a more crazy, rather than cranky, way. Don't worry though, Crazy Jack was just getting ready to crank the cranky to crazy levels.
When someone, I've no idea who, (perhaps a tracker?) tried task him why he backed out of the debates. That's when Crazy Jack got his crazy old crank on:
You've got to love the fact that Crazy Jack is laughing as he smacks this guy and as he ambles away towards his Klownmobile. Also, WTF is Crazy Jack wearing here? He looks like some sort of geriatric dentist deer hunter or something. A camo...smock? WTF is that thing? And why is a guy who is spending millions of his own money running for Congress wearing it in public? Maybe he is skiping the debates because he had nothing else to wear? Or maybe he's just crazy?
Seems crazy is also contagious. Not only did Crazy Jack smack the guy with the camera around, but one of Crazy Jack's staff (Deputy Goon?) decided to get in on the crazy too and smack the guy around some more. This is crazy for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that the guy getting smacked around was holding a video camera. Crazy, right?
Why? He believed the crazy stuff that a Crazy Jack told him and then learned that maybe he and Crazy Jack Davis were, perhaps, different kinds of crazy and then called the whole crazy thing off.
Pretty crazy, huh?
UPDATE: Two points: 1. As Amherst Guy says in the comments and as much of the chatter I'm hearing seems to reinforce, this is almost certainly the work of Erie County GOP chair Nick Langworthy. David Bellavia is saying so publicly, too.
2: This definitely does not help Kathy Hochul. That is, of course, why they did it.
Team Davis shrugged off the incident -- seemingly fueled by Davis' decision to not participate in a WGRZ debate -- as "histrionics" and said it proves nothing: "This is a deliberate harassment and attempt at intimidation by campaign operatives desperate to keep Jack from getting to Washington," said Davis spokesman Curtis Ellis. "They're harassing him and tracking him and trying to prevent him from getting in his own car... They're trying to get some video they can trick up and make to look more like it is. This is a non-event. This is a nothingburger."
Davis, obviously, is running against GOP-endorsed state Assemblywoman Jane Corwin. Responded the ECGOP's Nick Langworthy when asked for more details, "[A] Young Republican volunteer [was] just asking Davis after his event why he pulled out of the debate. Other than that, I guess the video speaks for itself. Davis certainly does not have the temperament to serve in Congress if he can't handle tough questions from a tracker."
Langworthy declined to release the name of the volunteer, saying the tracker needs to speak to his lawyer. As for the third man in the video, "he works or volunteers for Davis apparently. He did hit him in the head with a binder of some kind."
A spokesman for the Corwin campaign did not immediately respond to my requests for comment about the video, which Ellis said didn't tell the full story of the harrassment "of a candidate for federal office."
"This is the 'Blair Witch Project' of tracker videos," he scoffed. "You see the camera shaking. He screams like an eight-year-old girl -- which is how old Jane Corwin was when she was claims to have been a 'successful businesswoman' -- and that's it. They seem to make it like some Oscar-nominated production."
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Langworthy definitely set Davis up and tracker is definitely hamming it up. But, Davis and his goon totally took the bait. Why? Probably because he's crazy.
