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Pa. House (Dem) candidate assaulted amid warnings about election-related threats
PennLive ^ | October 31, 2022 | Jan Murphy

Posted on 11/01/2022 2:15:29 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

A candidate running for a state House seat on Monday morning called 911 after being assaulted at his Fayette County home in what would be the third time in two weeks he has had to call police to his residence.

Democrat Richard Ringer said he was bloodied and knocked unconscious by an attacker in his back yard around 5 a.m.

“A guy was standing with his back to me. I went and bear-hugged him, wrestled, ended up on the ground,” said Ringer, 69, who is running in a contested race for the open 51st state House District seat. “He was larger than I am and he pinned me down on my left side. I’m right-handed and he had my right arm pulled back and he hit me 10 to 12 times in the head, in the face and by the eye and he knocked me out.”

A call placed to the state police trooper who responded to a call to Ringer’s home was not returned on Monday afternoon. Ringer said his hands were bloodied and his faced bruised from the attack.

Because it was dark, Ringer said he couldn’t provide police with much of a description of the man. He also didn’t recall seeing a strange vehicle parked near his home.

(Excerpt) Read more at pennlive.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: assault; election; pennsylvania
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1 posted on 11/01/2022 2:15:29 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
I call BS.

2 posted on 11/01/2022 2:17:06 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Jussie Smollett is his hero.


3 posted on 11/01/2022 2:19:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ( We need to “build back better” on the bones and ashes of those forcing us to “Build Back Better.")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Help me here. The assailant was standing with his back to the victim.
The victim bear hugged assailant from behind,
After which the assailant beat him.

Does that make sense? Kind of sounds like the victim jumped the assailant from behind.


4 posted on 11/01/2022 2:19:45 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Bullshit


5 posted on 11/01/2022 2:19:50 PM PDT by tomkat ( SOTU = FUBAR)
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To: Williams
Kind of sounds like the victim jumped the assailant from behind.

Precisely.

Why not go back in the house, call the cops re a trespasser in your yard at 5am (if there even WAS a guy out there)

No, think I'll go grab the guy who's bigger than me from behind and see what he wants.

Holy Christ, where do these meatheads come from ??

6 posted on 11/01/2022 2:23:54 PM PDT by tomkat ( SOTU = FUBAR)
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To: tomkat

It’s just a false flag.

By trying to make martyrs of themselves, dems are hoping for sympathy votes.


7 posted on 11/01/2022 2:26:29 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Smollet 3.5 or Paul Pelosi 2.0


8 posted on 11/01/2022 2:26:32 PM PDT by webheart
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To: tomkat

5am in backyard:

THIS IS MAGA COUNTRY !


9 posted on 11/01/2022 2:27:25 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: tomkat

Bear hugging someone…. That is a pretty gay tactic.


10 posted on 11/01/2022 2:27:44 PM PDT by webheart
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“the third time in two weeks he has had to call police to his residence...”

Sounds like he’s a bit of a drama queen. Or perhaps he is having some domestic issues.


11 posted on 11/01/2022 2:29:37 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Dick Ringer is lucky he’s not a dead Ringer.


12 posted on 11/01/2022 2:31:37 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! R)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Huh. Fayette County is where my ancestor settled after the Revolution. He was an ironmonger at Dunbar Forge, now simply Dunbar.

I understand there are still distant members of my family in Fayette County....


13 posted on 11/01/2022 2:35:06 PM PDT by quikstrike98
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Very likely his homosexual lover wanted to engage in a quickie. Queers are such drama queens. /spit


14 posted on 11/01/2022 2:36:45 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci: You had one job and you failed!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
" Ringer said he couldn’t provide police with much of a description of the man"

Of course, "I do remember he had one of those red MAGA hats on, though"

15 posted on 11/01/2022 2:44:24 PM PDT by traditional2 (lets go B*and*n)
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

16 posted on 11/01/2022 2:45:14 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Really. Dick Ringer?


17 posted on 11/01/2022 2:49:33 PM PDT by 3RIVRS
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
"I call BS."

Reminds me of Harry Reid...

See the source image

...injured by a door knob.

18 posted on 11/01/2022 2:49:49 PM PDT by guest7
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To: quikstrike98

I know where that is! Grew up in Uniontown.


19 posted on 11/01/2022 2:51:04 PM PDT by 3RIVRS
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To: guest7
I have to confess to an abundance of schadenfreude when that happened. 👍

20 posted on 11/01/2022 2:57:10 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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