The neighbor who attacked Sen. Rand Paul over lawn clippings admitted this week that as he saw the Kentucky senator cleaning up his yard, “I lost it and became irate.”
Rene Boucher, in a deposition in a lawsuit filed by Paul, added, “What I did was wrong, and I’m sorry I did it.”
In November 2017, as Paul was working on his yard, Boucher tackled the senator, causing six broken ribs and extreme pain.
Boucher, whose trial begins Jan. 28, said that he had been angry with Paul’s landscaping for years. He cited a brush pile on their property line that got bigger every year. When he couldn’t sell his house, he blamed Paul’s yard.
Other neighbors interviewed by Secrets, however, said that Paul’s lot in the Bowling Green neighborhood wasn’t different from most.
In his deposition, Boucher, a retired doctor, said he became especially angry when he saw Paul adding to the brush pile at time when he was trying to sell his home.
“When I saw him once again, he was off of his mower, taking branches from that one pile and putting them on the property line to intentionally aggravate me. I lost it and became irate,” said Boucher, according to a report in WBKO.
Paul’s office had no reaction.
