by David Safier

Senator Scott Bundgaard claimed immunity when police arrived in the midst of his altercation on the highway with his then-girlfriend Aubry Ballard. Now Phoenix police are suggesting Bundgaard should be charged with assault.

Things aren't looking good for Bundgaard. Though he claimed not to have hit Ballard,

Phoenix police reports released Thursday . . . say that each struck the other at least once and that officers at the scene believed Bundgaard had been drinking.

There's really no problem if he had a few drinks, except that he told an officer at the scene he hadn't had anything to drink that night. The problem with that is, the officer reported smelling alcohol on Bundgaard's breath. And what's more,

[Officer Robert] Rodarme asked Bundgaard to take a field sobriety test. Bundgaard replied, "No," and then said, "I'm not taking your test."

It's Bundgaard's right to refuse, of course, but as conservatives like to say, you don't have anything to be afraid of if you're telling the truth.

Ready for the coup de grâce? There was a witness.

Also in the report, a witness told officers she saw a male trying to pull somebody out of the passenger side of the vehicle.

"She said, 'He was beatin' the living crap out of whoever was in the passenger seat'," the report says.

Not looking good for Bundgaard.

UPDATE: The Senate Democrats just put out a Media Release saying they "intend to file an amended ethics complaint in consideration of the supplemental police report released today regarding Sen. Scott Bundgaard and the events of February 25, 2011."

You can read the complete media release after the jump.

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