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CatWoman

(79,302 posts)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 02:30 PM Jan 2013

Former GOP Candidate Arrested For Slashing Opponents Tires

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 wasn’t the case. This isn’t the normal kind of political retribution you might expect. This is scary.”


The Reporter went on to note that Rhead Story, Smith’s campaign manager, also had his tires slashed.

Rhead Story, Smith’s campaign manager, told police he’s 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/

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Former GOP Candidate Arrested For Slashing Opponents Tires (Original Post) CatWoman Jan 2013 OP
Bwaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahahaha malaise Jan 2013 #1
Roflmao ...they eat their own SummerSnow Jan 2013 #3
I love it malaise Jan 2013 #4
Former GOP Candidate Arrested For Slashing Opponents Tires Flashmann Jan 2013 #2
What an asshole! Jim__ Jan 2013 #5
A serial tire slasher. The GOP, pioneers of antisocial dickishness. dgauss Jan 2013 #6
Crazy eyes, like Bachman. HooptieWagon Jan 2013 #7
At least she was smart enough to realize it wasn't "Democrats" slashing tires. catbyte Jan 2013 #8
wish I could rec your post CatWoman Jan 2013 #9
Not in a few years, anyway. hughee99 Jan 2013 #13
Why am I thinking of skid marks? Oilwellian Jan 2013 #10
You'd think that LONG before you got to 40 TIRES SLASHED, you'd park TwilightGardener Jan 2013 #11
Funny story about the darker side in our communities. iemitsu Jan 2013 #12
Traditional family values. nt eppur_se_muova Jan 2013 #14
ROFL Scurrilous Jan 2013 #15

malaise

(269,022 posts)
1. Bwaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahahaha
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 02:32 PM
Jan 2013

ReTHUGs in name and nature. Just imagine what they would do to Democrats!!

Flashmann

(2,140 posts)
2. Former GOP Candidate Arrested For Slashing Opponents Tires
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 02:32 PM
Jan 2013

Things like this are what pass as "Statemanship" for that crowd.........Sorry,sorry bastards.....

 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
7. Crazy eyes, like Bachman.
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 03:25 PM
Jan 2013

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)
8. At least she was smart enough to realize it wasn't "Democrats" slashing tires.
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 03:48 PM
Jan 2013

That's not how we roll.

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)
11. You'd think that LONG before you got to 40 TIRES SLASHED, you'd park
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 04:01 PM
Jan 2013

in a damn garage or set up surveillance.

iemitsu

(3,888 posts)
12. Funny story about the darker side in our communities.
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 04:36 PM
Jan 2013

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 wasn’t the case. This isn’t 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.

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