by David Safier
Remember State Senator Scott Bundgaard? He had a little, shall we say, falling out with his girlfriend on the highway awhile back. Either she hit him or he hit her. Either she drew a gun on him or she didn't. Either he demanded political immunity or he didn't. Talk about your he said/she said!
Laurie Roberts of the AZ Republic, tried to set the record straight in a column a few days ago. Here are some excerpts which give a pretty good indication of what really happened. First Roberts summarizes the various versions of the incident, then gives what she calls "everyone else's story." Hint: it doesn't make Bundgaard look very good.
Then there is everybody else's story: the two police officers who smelled alcohol on Bundgaard's breath; the five people driving by who saw what happened outside Bundgaard's Mercedes that night.
All five witnesses reported Bundgaard as the aggressor. Three said he pulled Ballard from the car and that she landed on the ground. One said he threw her against a cement barricade. The fifth reported him walking toward her, yelling and waving his hands as she backed away.
Ballard, in a recently released interview conducted a few days after the incident, told detectives that Bundgaard had never before hit her during their seven-month relationship.
"He has pushed me to the ground, thrown me out, just things like that, little signs that I should have walked away," she said.
According to Ballard, other women who have been in Bundgaard's life have contacted her, "And they all are saying they will go to battle, I mean, court."
Bundgaard, by the way, devout man that he is, had what is called a "covenant marriage" back in 2006. But his then-wife walked out on him during their Hawaii honeymoon. She left him a note and asked the police to go to their hotel room to gather up her possessions for her. It sounds like she didn't want to be alone with the guy when she broke the news, or after he found out.
We'll certainly be hearing more about this. The only question is, when?
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