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Florida Woman Arrested For Allegedly Throwing Wine At Matt Gaetz
Forbes ^ | May 2, 2023 | Brian Bushard

Posted on 05/20/2023 7:37:04 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A Florida woman was charged with two counts of battery after allegedly tossing a glass of wine at hard-right Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) during a private event, local police confirmed Tuesday—the latest attack on a member of Congress.

Local police in Walton County—part of the Florida Panhandle—arrested 41-year-old Selena Jo Chambers Saturday night, after she allegedly threw wine at both Gaetz and his wife at the South Walton Beaches Wine & Food Festival, a private event Gaetz was attending with his wife in the coastal resort town of Sandestin, east of Pensacola.

She was charged with one count of misdemeanor battery and one count of battery against an elected official, a felony in Florida, according to local records—though Chambers told police she slipped and accidentally poured her drink on Gaetz, the Pensacola News Journal reported.

Gaetz, a controversial fourth-term Florida Republican, said he chose to press charges, arguing in a video captioned “When Leftist Winos Attack” that by allowing “stuff to be thrown or hurled,” there is a “severe risk of escalation and accident.”

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To: glennaro

Well she’s a fruit loop, I doubt she understands you can’t physically attack a Politician without serious cosequences which is what she did. Her filthy mouth preceded her assault so she did herself in by her intentions.


41 posted on 05/20/2023 9:55:03 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: Frank_2001

I look at it this way - my basic ideology is I want things to remain as they were, generally speaking.

That makes anyone who would be inclined to call me, or people I entirely agree with like Matt Gaetz, ‘hard right’ the radical not me.


42 posted on 05/20/2023 9:55:58 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Charged with one count of misdemeanor alcohol abuse...


43 posted on 05/20/2023 9:58:38 AM PDT by W. (Biden is unimportant and we do not hear his words!)
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To: caww

Looks like a tight faced liberal the other ones look like they have a pinched nerve.


44 posted on 05/20/2023 9:58:56 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: eclectic

They did.


45 posted on 05/20/2023 10:19:29 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: No name given
almost never

Can you think of just one?

I can't think of one who was phatically attacked by a conservative supporter. I can't even think of any conservative supporter who has offered up a statement that encouraged violent actions against the leftists politicians.

But there have been several instances of both actions by leftists against conservative politicians.

Some leftist politicians have actually sounded the call to commit acts of violence as well.

Yet, we are the ones that the press labels as being the violent actors who should be feared, and thus reined in.

46 posted on 05/20/2023 10:30:13 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Ezekiel

Gaetz reaction? He froze.


47 posted on 05/21/2023 6:49:55 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
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To: Rennes Templar
Gaetz reaction? He froze.

I suspect that this latest incident involved a wine cooler.

Low alcohol but high impact.

48 posted on 05/21/2023 8:32:56 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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