gianforte charged for assault !

[drray23]

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[pangaia]

1. Misdemeanor?

Sounded pretty damn mean to me.

[womanofthehills]

20. In the past - he made motions of grabbing another reporters neck

so it must be his thing. He has probably done this to people all his life.

[LOL Lib]

2. Misdemeanor

Still

[chillfactor]

3. good to hear......

hope it costs him the election.

[Eko]

4. Bam!!!!!!

[Cha]

5. Only misdemeanor? Sounded kinda felonious to me.

Mahalo Drray

[sheshe2]

9. White men get misdemeanors. Black men get felonious assault.

Color me surprised.

Cha~

[Cha]

15. Right.. shocking, she

for Ben

[fishwax]

11. Montana's felony assault (aggravated assault) requires serious bodily injury

[Cha]

17. Thank you, fishwax.

[elleng]

28. Thanks. Facts are useful.

[womanofthehills]

19. The sheriff contributed BIGLY to Gianforte's campaign

It's Montana!

[Cha]

24. I heard.. Mahalo, Womenofthehills

Conflict of Interest, anyone?

[SunSeeker]

21. The Sheriff is a Gianforte donor.

He didn't want to charge him at all, but his office got deluged with calls tonight from people outraged by the fact that the Sheriff let Gianforte just walk away from the scene.

[Cha]

26. That's Good information, SunSeeker!

Hope it's better for Voting for Bob Quist for House that the sheriff didn't charge him at first.

Too bad there's no candid vid.. and he's caught red handed.

Mahalo

[7wo7rees]

6. Nice!! And on the eve of vote!!!

SWEET!!

[womanofthehills]

22. Only possible problem, Montana has early voting

[No Vested Interest]

23. Up to 80% of the votes have already been cast, I have read. nt

[Glimmer of Hope]

7. Lock him for up for real?

[dalton99a]

8. Ben Jacobs should sue him, no matter what

[hedda_foil]

14. Damn straight he should sue. Gigantico is loaded.

[fishwax]

10. I'm a bit surprised/impressed that they went ahead with charges so quickly

it would have been easy, presumably, to delay until late in the day tomorrow or later.

The maximum penalty is $500 and 6 months. I'm sure he won't do time, but it'd be awfully nice if he lost the election.

[Tarheel_Dem]

12. The thought of this jerk actually taking up space in the US Congress should embarrass us all.

I heard a commentator say that something like 250k ballots have already been returned, and they expect only about 150k more, so there's a real possibility that this a**hole will suffer absolutely no repercussions for his barbaric behavior. Of course, the House Ethics Committee could intervene if he's elected.

[L. Coyote]

13. Yeah, misdemeanor assault. If Jacobs had done this to the Gianforte, felony for sure.

The Sheriff donated to the Gianforte campaign!

[bench scientist]

29. No, felony assault in MT requires serious bodily injury.

And he is still liable for a civil suit for assault.

[davsand]

16. Since the sheriff is a contributor to Gianforte are you surprised?

https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=Gootkin&cycle=&state=MT&zip=&employ=&cand=

There was a FOX news team present in the room when it happened, and there was an audio recording that supported their statements. They report that Gianforte grabbed him and then held him down while punching him. There had to be charges, but misdemeanor charges won't prevent Giaforte serving in office. Felony charges might have.

Money talks and bullshit walks.


Laura

[blogslut]

18. Also retweeted by Ms Bermes

Link to tweet

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Whitney Bermes? @wabermes

Whitney Bermes Retweeted Billings Gazette

Following in the @missoulian's footsteps, #Montana's largest newspaper pulls its endorsement of Gianforte following tonight's news. #mtal
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http://billingsgazette.com/opinion/editorial/gazette-opinion-we-re-pulling-our-endorsement-of-gianforte/article_34d90b42-545b-5e10-9355-605b7c5cb11f.html

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We're at a loss for words.

And as people who wrangle words on a minute-by-minute basis, that doesn't happen often.

What happens even less — hopefully never again — is a Montana candidate assaulting a reporter. While there are still questions left unanswered about GOP House hopeful Greg Gianforte's altercation with Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs, eyewitness accounts, law enforcement investigations and records are all shocking, disturbing and without precedent.

That's why The Billings Gazette editorial board is also doing something without precedent: We're rescinding our editorial endorsement of Greg Gianforte.

Although we're greatly troubled by this action against a member of the media who was just doing his job, to make this an issue of media intrusion or even a passionate defense of the role of a free press during an election would be to miss the point...
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[Cha]

27. Mahalo, blogslut! Very

Interesting!

[Warren DeMontague]

25. GOOD

[nitpicker]

30. Link to The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/24/greg-gianforte-bodyslams-reporter-ben-jacobs-montana

[democratisphere]

31. More typical redumbliCON bullying. If this a**hole wins the election,

he should never me seated in Congress. Let's see what the redumbliCONs are made of.