Massachusetts Republicans have released a video that they claim shows an aide for Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren physically assaulting an employee of the Massachusetts GOP -- but Warren's campaign says the man featured was a cab driver, not a member of Warren's staff.

The rapid-fire volley of accusations was a reminder, as the Republican National Convention slowly gets underway, that several Senate races that could hold the key to a majority for either party next year promise to be just as fierce as the presidential race.

Massachusetts GOP Executive Director Nate Little kicked off the back-and-forth by claiming that a Warren aide "physically assaulted and threatened" a party employee who was videotaping Warren Sunday on Martha's Vineyard.

"In addition to knocking the camera from the employee's hand, the individual also threw a punch," he said. "This type of behavior is completely unacceptable and has no place in our public discourse. Despite witnessing this assault first-hand, Professor Warren took no action and allowed it to continue. As Professor Warren falls further behind in the polls, we expect that she will become more negative toward Scott Brown. However, that should not be an excuse for her staff to lash out in violence. Professor Warren needs to address this situation and ensure that it doesn't happen again."

The video shows the person with Warren knocking down the camera of the GOP video tracker, though it does not clearly show a punch being thrown. The man, after knocking down the camera, tells the cameraman repeatedly to "get out of my face."

Warren spokeswoman Julie Edwards released the following statement in response: "Elizabeth did not see what happened. The photographer has a right to film in public locations, and the campaign had allowed him to film the entirety of Elizabeth's event. The confrontation was wrong."

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Editor's Note: That's funny, GM is part publicly owned thanks to Pres. Obama. Since when does a publicly owned, non-national security oriented entity get to ban the public from its premises?


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