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Former New Mexico Congressional District 1 Republican primary candidate Gary Smith was arrested this Friday after being video taped slashing the tires of at least four fellow Republicans.
Unsuccessful congressional candidate Gary Smith had an arrest warrant issued after a surveillance video showed him slashing the tires of Republican opponent Janice Arnold-Jones. The Santa Fe Reporter broke the story earlier Friday and Smith was taken into custody without incident shortly thereafter.
Arnold-Jones and her husband John Jones say they were feeling vulnerable after finding their vehicles tires punctured on back-to-back dates, and decided to set up a rooftop camera the week before Christmas.
I had a hunch it was him, Arnold-Jones tells SFR. People tried to tell me it was the work of Democrats, but I knew that wasnt the case. This isnt the normal kind of political retribution you might expect. This is scary.
The Reporter went on to note that Rhead Story, Smiths campaign manager, also had his tires slashed.
Rhead Story, Smiths campaign manager, told police hes lost almost 40 tires since discovering the first set flattened in June
http://samuel-warde.com/2012/12/former-gop-candidate-arrested-for-slashing-opponents-tires/
malaise
(269,022 posts)ReTHUGs in name and nature. Just imagine what they would do to Democrats!!
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)malaise
(269,022 posts)Flashmann
(2,140 posts)Things like this are what pass as "Statemanship" for that crowd.........Sorry,sorry bastards.....
Jim__
(14,077 posts)dgauss
(882 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)I wonder if he's a bible-thumper. And it looked like he had accomplices in one of the videos on the link. Wonder if cops arrested them too.
catbyte
(34,393 posts)That's not how we roll.
CatWoman
(79,302 posts)hughee99
(16,113 posts)Oilwellian
(12,647 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)in a damn garage or set up surveillance.
iemitsu
(3,888 posts)A GOP ex-candidate is seen skulking around his opponent's car and startles her enough to drop her laundry and run inside.
Then he goes on a tire slashing spree (in some kind of retribution for ?, him not having enough signatures to validate his own candidacy) and the slasher's opponent is quoted as saying, People tried to tell me it was the work of Democrats, but I knew that wasnt the case. This isnt the normal kind of political retribution you might expect. This is scary. Her statement suggesting that even republicans know that democrats are too "normal" to commit such crimes and that it had to be some wacko of their own.
Another of his victims, "lost almost 40 tires since discovering the first set flattened in June" but didn't initially contact the police because he thought it was random. Evidently in New Mexico, tire slashing is common enough to hardly bat an eye. Probably random and reason to not report it to police?
And ultimately being caught in the act, by two separate home surveillance cameras, is just amusing. those will be the images that Mr. Smith has associated with him the rest of his life.
snicker, snicker.