As a teen, he savagely beat a classmate. The attack was forgotten, until he went into politics [View all]

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Source: Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES The Republicans of Broward County, Fla., knew little about Rupert Tarsey when he ran for an open slot on the local party's executive committee. But the young man had some decent political cred.

Before the 2016 presidential election, he told them, he knocked on thousands of doors and got 50 Republicans in the liberal enclave to register to vote to support Donald Trump's presidential campaign. He worshipped at the same church as the committee's vice chair and headed a local chapter of the Catholic fraternal group Knights of Columbus. He came from a wealthy California family and followed four generations into a real estate career.

Within months of joining the local party, the 28-year-old was elected secretary in May, defeating two challengers who'd been around longer.

But something felt off about Tarsey for Bob Sutton, chairman of the committee. After a few months, Tarsey went after Sutton's position, members said, by working to persuade the committee to unseat him. That's when Sutton started getting phone calls warning him that Tarsey was not quite who he seemed.


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EXCLUSIVE: 'Why should I resign?' Recently elected secretary of Florida GOP was charged in a savage 2007 claw hammer beating of his former female classmate from a posh Los Angeles prep school - but refuses to step down

By JOSE LAMBIET FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 16:44 EST, 5 September 2017 UPDATED: 20:27 EST, 5 September 2017

A man arrested in a savage claw-hammer beating of a then-classmate at a Los Angeles prep school for children of multi-millionaires was elected secretary of the Republican Party of Broward County in Fort Lauderdale, Florida earlier this year.

Four months later, party officials have discovered the young philanthropist who supports President Donald Trump and is known there as Rupert Tarsey is really Rupert Ditsworth.

And a decade ago, the then-Beverly Hills teenager was arrested and charged with attempted murder after hitting Los Angeles's Harvard-Westlake School classmate Elizabeth Barcay over the head at least 40 times, splitting her skull open.

Now, Florida Republicans are desperate for Tarsey to resign and worried about the image of the party in the overwhelmingly Democratic area of former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.

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