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Skidmore

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Mon Sep 11, 2017, 09:41 AM Sep 2017

Man got new identity as Florida GOP secretary after attacking a girl with a hammer [View all]

This is not surprising for GOP, now the party of criminals and traitors.

https://news.vice.com/story/florida-gop-secretary-attacking-a-girl-with-a-hammer

A 28-year-old Broward County Republican is refusing to resign his position as party secretary after colleagues discovered over the weekend that he had once been prosecuted for brutally beating a high school girl with a claw hammer.

Rupert Ditsworth, who now goes by the name Rupert Tarsey, was charged with attempted murder for his 2007 attack on a fellow student at Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles. After checking into a psychiatric hospital following the attack, he escaped the most serious charges through a plea deal. He then ditched his native California for Florida and swapped Ditsworth for Tarsey — apparently in honor of his grandfather Jason Tarsey, who owned the former Dunes Hotel on the Vegas strip.

Republicans say they had no idea their new colleague had a fake name and a criminal background

“We were blindsided,” GOP chairman Bob Sutton told Gossip Extra, an independent Florida news service cross-published by the Miami Herald. “He’s a member of the Knights of Columbus, for Christ’s sake. And he came highly recommended by the former chair. We had no idea what his background is. We want him out but he is refusing to resign.”

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"He's a member of the Knights of Columbus, for Christ's sake" dalton99a Sep 2017 #1
Ahh, he just an excitable boy. I guess he didn't get to the digging up the bones part. TheBlackAdder Sep 2017 #4
Both songs came to mind to me as well. DFW Sep 2017 #13
The Knights don't like women all that much musette_sf Sep 2017 #20
Hes a member of the Knights of Columbus, for Christs sake." I bet he's also a church usher too! TheBlackAdder Sep 2017 #2
Heh. Yeah, being in the KOC would actually make me more suspicious of him. progressoid Sep 2017 #7
didn't know? Bullshit heaven05 Sep 2017 #3
Dude's response... it's just politics... salin Sep 2017 #5
twins CurtEastPoint Sep 2017 #6
Message auto-removed Name removed Sep 2017 #8
with a little digging I bet you find out he tortured animals before he killed the girl... Javaman Sep 2017 #9
He didn't kill her More_Cowbell Sep 2017 #16
she survived? wow! Javaman Sep 2017 #21
Shameful. His ass should just do the right thing and resign. iluvtennis Sep 2017 #10
Apparently, there were "some very fine people on both sides" of... LudwigPastorius Sep 2017 #11
Resign? They cannot force him out? keithbvadu2 Sep 2017 #12
That's what I wondered rpannier Sep 2017 #24
For the GOP, this kind of history is a requirement of the position AllyCat Sep 2017 #14
The Knights Of Columbus would like to sell you some LIFE INSURANCE! Truly !! vkkv Sep 2017 #15
he says: it is just party politics Angry Dragon Sep 2017 #17
He attacked her with a hammer until the hammer broke.... and got off with a plea deal. SaschaHM Sep 2017 #18
The identity hiding company must not have done their job. ProgressiveValue Sep 2017 #19
His grandfather was apparently owner of the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas. nt Skidmore Sep 2017 #22
Name Change GopherGal Sep 2017 #25
nothing new for the Republican party, they have a history. Richman, poorman, beggerman-CHIEF. Sunlei Sep 2017 #23
They just sensed that he was one of their own WhiteTara Sep 2017 #26
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