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U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz is asking the federal court to sentence Amanda Kondrat'yev the woman who threw a drink on the congressman after a Pensacola campaign event in June to "some time of incarceration," saying that the message needs to be sent to supporters and opponents that violence won't be tolerated.
Kondrat'yev, 35, is scheduled to be sentenced Monday after pleading guilty in August to the charge of assaulting a U.S. congressman. She admitted to throwing a cup full of red liquid at Gaetz as he was leaving the Brew Ha Ha restaurant for an "Open Gaetz" event on June 1.
Kondrat'yev faces up to a year in prison, a $100,000 fine or five years of probation, a fate that a federal judge will decide Monday.
In a victim impact statement provided to the court, a copy of which Gaetz's press secretary provided to the News Journal, Gaetz argues that not sentencing Kondrat'yev to prison will send a message to his supporters that violence will be tolerated.
https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2019/11/13/matt-gaetz-asks-judge-sentence-drink-thrower-prison-time/4178691002/
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Meanwhile, the GOP does nothing as thousands of people are killed by guns every year.
So yes Matt, violence is tolerated.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,922 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,869 posts)Need somewhere nice and warm to spend the next few winter months? Want a clean bed and three meals a day?
Just throw a cup of some kind of liquid on Mike Gaetz (R - The Dark Side) and get free food and lodging!
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,173 posts)Because if there is alcohol in it, Matt might actually thank you instead.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)mahina
(17,646 posts)rzemanfl
(29,556 posts)Johonny
(20,833 posts)bribery, racketeering ....
Ah, the law and order party.
LonePirate
(13,417 posts)dem4decades
(11,282 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,430 posts)dem4decades
(11,282 posts)Gothmog
(145,130 posts)spanone
(135,823 posts)FUCK YOU matt
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Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)In the meantime, he'll protect a criminal in the White House and refuse to regulate guns so our children aren't killed while attending school. Big man! Powerful man!
eppur_se_muova
(36,259 posts)Uglicans are truly, truly blind to irony.
"not sentencing Kondrat'yev to prison will send a message to his supporters that violence will be tolerated." {clutches pearls}
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Kondrat'yev faces up to a year in prison, a $100,000 fine or five years of probation, a fate that a federal judge will decide Monday.
Why is throwing a drink that severe? Geez probably happens a 100 times everyday in a bar
Celerity
(43,317 posts)crickets
(25,962 posts)This is what he wants someone jailed for? My head is all desky now.