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Judi Lynn

(160,638 posts) Wed Feb 7, 2018, 09:15 PM Feb 2018

Ohio Congressional Race Takes Ugly Turn As Democrat Reports Stalking Of Fiance

Source: Huffington Post

02/07/2018 03:15 pm ET Updated 3 hours ago
The campaign of his GOP opponent has been tracking him, but denied involvement.

By Daniel Marans

Aftab Pureval, a Democratic House candidate in Ohio, reported to police on Monday the “menacing by stalking” of his fiancée, Whitney Whitis, outside her Cincinnati home.

Since Jan. 28, two days before Pureval formally announced his run, “unknown suspects” have been “sitting outside the victim’s house at all hours of the day, attempting to photograph victim, and have come onto the victim’s property banging loudly on the door, yelling at the victim and attempting to photograph through the windows,” according to the police report.

Pureval, 35, currently the Hamilton County Clerk of Courts, announced on Jan. 31 that he would be challenging Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) in Ohio’s 1st congressional district.

The day before, Pureval and Whitis moved to a home inside the district in downtown Cincinnati. Whitis has put the previous house, where Pureval alleges she was stalked, up for sale.

Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aftab-pureval-ohio-congressional-race-fiancee-stalking_us_5a7b4fcce4b08dfc92ff6293?section=us_politics

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Ohio Congressional Race Takes Ugly Turn As Democrat Reports Stalking Of Fiance (Original Post) Judi Lynn Feb 2018 OP

To tell the truth, I'm worried about the safety of every Democrat running. mountain grammy Feb 2018 #1

same here NewJeffCT Feb 2018 #3

Trump's brown shirts Fullduplexxx Feb 2018 #2

So the Chabot campaing admits to sending "groups of volunteers" to the home OhioBlue Feb 2018 #4

Sounds like the Ohio GOP is deploying the Brownshirts to intimidate their opponents. Nitram Feb 2018 #5

mountain grammy

(26,656 posts)

1. To tell the truth, I'm worried about the safety of every Democrat running.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Feb 7, 2018, 10:08 PM

Feb 2018

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)

3. same here

Reply to mountain grammy (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 7, 2018, 10:23 PM

Feb 2018

I wouldn't be surprised if there are a few incidents and I hope nobody is seriously hurt

Fullduplexxx

(7,872 posts)

2. Trump's brown shirts

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Feb 7, 2018, 10:22 PM

Feb 2018

OhioBlue

(5,126 posts)

4. So the Chabot campaing admits to sending "groups of volunteers" to the home

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Feb 7, 2018, 10:38 PM

Feb 2018

but denies any involvement? Spokesman says why would any campaign do that? It is over the line...

Question: Why does he think he or the campaign has control over the behavior of "groups of volunteers"?

So we are to believe that they 1. Sent groups of vols - not paid staff whose behavior would need to be held accountable, and not even a single trusted volunteer, but groups of vols.... 2. We are to believe that group thinking, super sleuth wanna be, mischief didn't occur by them and that 3. There was a completely other group of people not seen by the groups of vols sent by Chabot that were involved in the harassment?

Do I have this right?

Nitram

(22,900 posts)

5. Sounds like the Ohio GOP is deploying the Brownshirts to intimidate their opponents.