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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nRichard Ojeda, a retired Army engineer officer currently running for a seat in West Virginia’s Senate as a Democrat was viciously attacked from behind at a political rally yesterday. Initial reports were that his attacker, Jonathan Stuart Porter, used brass knuckles in the assault, but there isn’t any evidence of that now. From NBC News<\/a>;<\/p>\n In an interview from his hospital room in Charleston, Ojeda, 45, a Democrat and military veteran whose primary contest is Tuesday, said he had been at a barbecue in the mountains about 60 miles southwest of Charleston when Porter asked for a bumper sticker.<\/p>\n Ojeda, who said he has known Porter since they were kids, placed one on the rear bumper of Porter’s truck. Then Porter asked for a second one on the vehicle’s front grill.<\/p>\n “That’s all I remember,” Ojeda said. “When I woke up, my head was on a tree stump covered in blood. Everyone was looking at me.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n The article continues that if it hadn’t been for witnesses, Porter would have run over Ojeda with his pick up as he fled the scene.<\/p>\n From his Facebook page<\/a>;<\/p>\n The attack happened just two days before the Democrat party’s primary election.<\/p>\n Porter hid out for several hours before turning himself in to the police. Ojeda claims that the attack was motivated by politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"Ojeda\"](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Ojeda-225x300.jpg\")
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