First of all, Davis doesn't help himself. WGRZ Channel 2 out of Buffalo is doing a debate this morning and Jack Davis declined to participate. They asked him outside of a fundraiser from a republican who had endorsed him about declining the debate. When asked he said it was a fixed game, paraphrasing, and didn't want any part of it.
Then they show a video from a republican volunteer at this same encounter and Davis appears to push the camera out of the way. Then the person on the other side of the camera makes all kinds of noises like davis had hit him. Corwin's campaign contacted channel 2 to ask if they had seen the video of the 'assault'. Unless moving the camera is the assault. The story from channel 2 is
http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/121218/37/GOP-Alleges-Jack-Davis-Assault-Caught-On-Camera-Davis-Calls-It-a-Setup">here
According to WGRZ,
As Davis drove away, the young man yelled to 2 On Your Side's Michael Wooten and said, "Michael, did you see him hit me?"
Within about 20 minutes of the incident, 2 On Your Side received an email from the Corwin campaign, and a short time later, another Republican source contacted our newsroom. Both asked if we were aware of the "altercation."
2 On Your Side has requested from both the Corwin campaign and the Erie County GOP that they release the entire video (not just the 14-second clip) and the video from the female photographer. Neither has returned our requests. Davis' campaign asserts that this was an orchestrated setup by Republicans.
Something seems kind of fishy to me about this whole thing. the republicans want davis out of that race. The
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/09/974477/-NY-26:-Dem-Kathy-Hochul-in-the-lead-in-new-DK-SEIU-poll">poll numbers indicate hochul at 35%, corwin at 31% and davis at 24%. with Davis out of the race where would that 24% go?