I heard the following from an anonymous source. I wasn't at the Halifax Cantaloupe Festival, so I can't confirm it. However, it rings true based on what I've seen and heard about Jerry Kilgore. Here's the story:
The Kaine campaign had 4x8 signs up, and Kilgore and his entourage arrived at the event. A Kilgore hanger-on (and George Allen employee, apparently) named Tucker Watkins objected to the presence of the signs and ordered a Kaine staffer to move them. The Kaine staffer refused, and the Kilgore staffer shoved him back several feet. Someone may or may not have thrown a cantaloupe. Kilgore did nothing. Didn't back his guy up, didn't tell him to knock it off. Showed he couldn?t even be a leader of his own entourage.
Does anyone know if this is true? I certainly wouldn't want a false rumor to spread like wildfire across the internet or even into the "mainstream media," sort of like that Salem Fair "incident" a few weeks back which turned out not to be an incident at all.