Chances are, most people in the political community have already heard this story.
It is developing into one of the truly wonderful vignettes emerging from the Tuesday night elections, and it circles around one simple question:
Did Rand Paul, the victor in Tuesday night's GOP Senate primary in Kentucky, diss the man he defeated?
The story emerged on Tuesday night, courtesy of WCPO-TV. Reporter Jay Warren noted that Grayson's campaign manager, Nate Hodson, confirmed that Paul and Grayson did not speak. When asked if Paul had refused to take the call, Hodson simply said "it happened."
Indeed, in Grayson's concession speech, he made a casual reference to it in the introduction:
"A couple of minutes ago I spoke to David Adams, the campaign manager for Dr. Paul, and congratulated Dr. Paul on his hard fought victory tonight and told him we would be standing side-by-side on Saturday at the Republican unity rally."
Note that it says he spoke to the campaign manager, not the candidate.
For his part, Paul's campaign manager, David Adams, is unleashing the indignation as a result of these stories:
"That's false," said Adams, who noted that he personally received Grayson's call and he couldn't reach Paul at the time. "I said Rand isn't here. So Trey said tell him congratulations and I will say good things about him tonight and I'll see him on Saturday."
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Adams added that he personally called Grayson back Tuesday night, but didn't get through and has left word with Grayson's chief of staff asking him to call. He is confident the two men will speak Wednesday. "That's how I will resolve this idiocy," Adams said.
It is a sign of Paul's tendency for aberrant behavior that people had no trouble believing that he would refuse the concession call for his vanquished rival.
And, for what it's worth, that unity rally planned for this weekend in Kentucky ought to really be worth the price of admission.