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Mon Apr 18, 2016, 01:07 PM Apr 2016

Republican convention for Virgin Islands held at gun range, brawl ensues, cops called

The Republican Territorial Committee held a joint meeting Saturday at a gun range in St. Croix, but the meeting erupted into chaos with attendees shouting over one another, calling for points of order, and at one point, Gwen Brady, an elected delegate, being allegedly shoved to the ground, according to the Virgin Islands Daily News.

This is just the latest in the civil war within the island's Republican Party where a fight over delegates to the 2016 convention in Cleveland has left the group in disarray.

Virgin Islands Republican Party Vice Chairman Herb Schoenbohm told the paper that Brady was “slammed against the wall and thrown to the floor because she objected to the Gestapo-like tactics of the V.I. Chairman John Canegata.”

Schoenbohm also blasted the location of the meeting, telling the paper that Canegata was "banging the table with a large ammunition cartridge being used as a gavel" and walking around with a "firearm on his belt."

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/virgin-islands-gop-meeting-ends-with-shoving-shouting-and-cops/ar-BBrUavP
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Republican convention for Virgin Islands held at gun range, brawl ensues, cops called (Original Post) geek tragedy Apr 2016 OP
They're practicing for cleveland! yortsed snacilbuper Apr 2016 #1
Was Kelsey Grammer there? KamaAina Apr 2016 #2
Oh my Iliyah Apr 2016 #3
AWESOME! I'm taking off work for at least the first two days of Cleveland... snooper2 Apr 2016 #4
"Are you not entertained?" nt geek tragedy Apr 2016 #6
Well, I'm not not entertained! snooper2 Apr 2016 #7
Guns and Politics Bjornsdotter Apr 2016 #5
 

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4. AWESOME! I'm taking off work for at least the first two days of Cleveland...
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