05-25-2017, 09:02 AM
(05-25-2017, 08:44 AM)Yojimbo Wrote: He has now been cited with misdemeanor assault.
http://www.wcpo.com/news/national/reporters-accuse-montana-congressional-candidate-greg-gianforte-of-assault
I had originally heard felony assault, glad it is misdemeanor, though. Felony would have been asinine.
Larry Sabato had a tweet with good news for Gianforte, apparently you can use campaign funds for anger management.
In all seriousness, this was one guy and this wasn't too rough on the questioning. Members of Congress have half a dozen phones shoved in their face with multiple questions being asked all the time. This may have been a bad day for him, but that doesn't excuse assault, and fleeing the scene, and the idiocy of releasing a statement that has seemingly been contradicted by the audio already (I say seemingly because editing can do wonders).
All in all, it's hard to say what kind of impact this will have. Two Montana newspapers pulled their endorsements, but because Montana is such a wide open state, it has a lot of mail in voting and so this may not have a huge impact. What it will do is muddy the waters on this being a bellwether for Democrats looking towards 2018. This event makes the race an anomaly in any statistical models.
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