13 May 2017

This Business Will Get out of Control. It Will Get out of Control and We'll Be Lucky to Live through It.

A Tennessee woman hated that her congressman voted for the controversial Republican health-care bill in the House of Representatives, authorities said.

So Wendi L. Wright tried to run Rep. David Kustoff (R-Tenn.) off the road after he visited the University of Tennessee at Martin, they said.

The Weakley County Sheriff’s Department said Wright tailed the car carrying Kustoff. At some point, the congressman and his aide became afraid and worried that Wright wanted to force them off the road.

They then turned into a driveway and stopped. That’s where Wright got out, screamed at the congressman and struck the windows of his vehicle, even reaching inside the car, the sheriff’s department said.

Authorities said Wright then stood in front of the vehicle to try to keep Kustoff from leaving. At some point, someone called 911, but Wright left before authorities arrived.

The incident happened on May 8, four days after House Republicans narrowly passed a bill to overhaul the country’s health-care system.

Wright, 35, has been charged with felony reckless endangerment and was released after posting a $1,000 bond. Authorities say they found her after she posted details of the encounter with Kustoff on Facebook.
I think that characterizing this as an attempt to run the Congressman off the road is a bit much. It's more of a stalking and a rant.

Still, this is major league crazy sh%$, and it is a profoundly unproductive course of action.

3 comments :

Cthulhu said...

But you understand why people are starting to react in this way, yes?

The repukes have brought anything that happens down on their own heads.

Matthew Saroff said...

Understanding the lady's reaction and approving her reaction are two separate items.

Cthulhu said...

Granted, but at what point to violence in response to Republicans violence against us become justified? Where's the tipping point? People without power will find some method to fight back when the non violent methods no longer work. And it will be solely the GOP's fault when it happens.

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