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Obama Campaign Staffer Arrested For Sexual Assault

Luke Buchanan, a Field Organizer with President Obama’s reelection campaign, has been arrested and is being detained in Larimer County jail for “Unlawful Sexual Contact” according to reports from CBS 4 in Denver and a press release from the Loveland Police Department.

Based on reports, the assault happened while Buchanan was canvassing neighborhoods for Obama For America.

The victim, a 21-year-old woman, reported to the Loveland police that Buchanan “identified himself as a member of the Obama political campaign and asked to speak with her about her voting status.” According to the press release, after Buchanan was done speaking to the victim he “asked if he could give her a campaign sticker. The victim accepted and the male allegedly grabbed her breasts while applying the sticker to her shirt.”

The Loveland Police Department identifies Buchanan as “a 24 year old Washington, D.C. resident, who was working on the campaign in Loveland.” The release also stated that Buchanan was arrested for “one count of Unlawful Sexual Contact, a class 1 misdemeanor.”

Records found by Media Trackers and first reported by the Denver Post suggest this isn’t Buchanan’s first run in with the law. This March, Buchanan was booked by Santa Monica County for public intoxication According to California Penal Code 647(f) PC, public intoxication means either “your level of intoxication makes you unable to exercise care for your safety or for the safety of others, or your level of intoxication interferes with, obstructs, or prevents others from using streets, sidewalks, or other “public ways.”

The statute does not limit intoxication to alcohol, instead including “influence of intoxicating liquor, any drug, controlled substance, toluene, or any combination” of the same.

Buchanan’s Facebook page lists him as the Field Coordinator for the Fort Collins Obama for America office. Buchanan describes himself as a Field Organizer with Obama for America on his LinkedIN profile. In his biography, Buchanan states that he has a double major in Communications and Environmental studies, and he indicates he is “now working on President Obama’s campaign in Colorado, where I recruit and manage volunteers, perform cold-calls, and collect and input data.”

According to records, Buchanan lived with his parents in D.C. prior to moving to Colorado. Buchanan’s D.C. residence is a luxurious home in a neighborhood where the mean home value is over $1 million and the median income is just under $100 thousand.

A search of voter registration records shows no current or former registrations for Buchanan in either Washington D.C. or Colorado. This despite being responsible for registering voter for the Obama campaign in Colorado.

This post was originally featured at Media Trackers Colorado.

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  • jpalm

    Risk you take when you bring Bill Clinton along!

  • gunnyg2002

    From Gerry Studds to BJ Bubba Clinton to Barney Frank to Client 9 Spitzer to A. Weiner, the criminality of the Democrat Party is quite simply amazing.

  • deltawing

    I like that! Butcher of Benghazi!

  • redascanbe

    I don’t know why anyone would be surprised at this. The Dems have always been good at voter outreach.

  • Blue_State_Refugee

    As with Bob Menendez, this can only be considered a resume enhancer in Democrat circles.

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

    I guess you could say he’s trying to keep abreast of the campaign.

  • http://www.bohnetlaw.com rightappeal

    Sounds like he’s been watching too many Lena Dunham ads.

  • justperhaps45

    B of B may be a little over stated though it does have a nice ring. Since he went to bed after being made aware of the of the Benghazi situation perhaps he is a sleeper cell. Or suffers from CADS, Cognitive Awareness Deficit Syndrome.

  • justperhaps45

    We get what we reward.
    It takes a moral, ethical people for a republic to survive.
    Turn your head and plug your ears to make it better.

  • dlfige

    Am I missing something, that he’s not registered to vote in either his former home of DC or CO… Yet being responsible for Voters Registering …. and they will wonder why they are losing in a blue states now too…

  • APA Guy

    If this is the Obama campaign’s way of courting the female vote, I’m pretty sure they are missing the mark badly.

  • funwithknives

    No, No, No, you guys got him all wrong. He was excercising his Stated Majors.
    1) He was ‘Reaching Out’ to her and ‘Communicating’ his
    [and his Party's] message. {Or he was Tuning in Tokyo, /sarc/ }
    2) He was ‘examining’/studying her ‘Environment’ to see what ‘the weather’ was like.
    This was, in in rawest form, Relativist Research, in real time. To bad he didn’t ask his victim if it was O K with her to be a part of his enterprise.
    Think she would-a been a volunteer?

  • aggie90

    He was only polling her “Lady Parts”, to see how they would vote.

  • Repair_Man_Jack

    Doing to the electorate what they’ve been doing to them the last 4 years. That is all.

  • commondream

    This comment thread reads like Erick should change the name of the site to RedditState.

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