March 07, 2008 01:54 AM UTC

Muhammad Ali Hasan: Master of the Terrible Press

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• by: Colorado Pols

Sign #247 that your campaign is in trouble: Your publicist takes out a restraining order against you.

If only Republican Muhammad Ali Hasan could turn his fantastic ability to generate horrible press into votes. The man who gave us, literally, “The Worst Press Ever” is back at it again. From The Summit Daily News:

A temporary restraining order was filed against state representative candidate Muhammad Ali Hasan by his former girlfriend and publicist Alison Miller.

Miller accused Hasan, a Republican who is running to represent Eagle County in District 56, of harassing her by text message, attempting to break into her e-mail, and then repeatedly demanding that she sign a waiver saying she would not sue him for doing so, according to court documents.

The temporary restraining order was filed on Monday and a hearing for a permanent order is scheduled for March 10.

According to the order, Hasan cannot be within 100 feet of Miller or her children and must stay away from her home and workplace.

Miller, a former Vail Daily reporter, alleges Hasan kept tabs on her whereabouts and shows up unannounced despite being asked to stop. she also alleges Hasan tried to threaten her into signing the waiver.

“(The situation) led up to him taking me to his attorney’s office just two hours after I was released from the hospital and was ordered to bed rest and was on pain meds and anti-nausea meds, and he demanded I sign the documents before he took me home,” Miller wrote in a court petition.

To fully understand why this story is completely UNsurprising to anyone who has followed Hasan, check out this post from earlier this year. On the bright side, apparently he is no longer the “Mayor of Commitment-Phobia-Ville.”