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November 5, 2017The four of us Chicks were in Brown County over the weekend, so we’re just playing catch up with the news of the day.
We missed one big thing. Someone assaulted Sen. Rand Paul!
According to the arrest warrant, a neighbor allegedly snuck up behind Paul and tackled him to the ground. Paul walked away with minor injuries, including some sort of rib injury.
“Senator Paul was blindsided and the victim of an assault,” Paul’s communications director Kelsey Cooper said. “The assailant was arrested and it is now a matter for the police.”
The man who attacked him has been identified as 59-year-old Rene Boucher. He’s a Bowling Green anesthesiologist and pain specialist.
Boucher is an anesthesiologist and pain specialist. He got his medical degree from Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine after being pre-med at Providence College in Rhode Island, according to Doximity. Boucher has practiced medicine since 1982 and attended high school in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Between 1985 and 1993, Boucher was a pain management specialist at the Letterman Army Medical Center in San Francisco where he also did his residency.
In 2005, Boucher appeared on QVC marketing a rice-filled vest that was designed to alleviate back pain, reported the Bowling Green Daily News. The vest retailed at $30 and had to be microwaved before use. The website for Therm-a-Vest is no longer active. WAVE reports that Boucher retired in 2015.
Boucher is a registered Democrat. He is shown through Facebook postings to be high critical of President Donald Trump, an advocate for gun control and healthcare reform. There does not seem to be any posts that target Senator Paul.
I know that shouldn’t matter, because crazy people are crazy people. But I ALSO know everyone was DYING to know his party affiliation. So there you go. Registered Democrat.
He’s currently being held at the Warren County Regional Jail and could face up to a year in prison.
