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Lobbyist Arrested After Bloody Brawl

POSTED: 11:56 am PDT April 23, 2007
UPDATED: 12:17 pm PDT April 23, 2007

Politics can be rough, but usually there's no real bloodshed.

Apparently things got out of hand at a Midtown Atlanta bar early Saturday morning.

Lobbyist Peter Stokes, 25, attacked fellow lobbyist John Clayton, hitting him over the head with a beer bottle, slicing off part of the victim's ear, according to police.

The men were attending a party at the Spotted Dog on North Avenue marking the end of the legislative session.

Stokes was arrested on felony aggravated assault charges and booked into the Fulton County jail.

He made a court appearance on Monday morning and bond was set at $20,000.

On the State Ethics Commission Web site, Stokes is registered as a lobbyist for Georgia Natural Gas, the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, the Medical Association of Georgia, the Strollo Group, Verizon and a business called Pull-A-Part.

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