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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublican 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."
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
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yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)1. They're practicing for cleveland!
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)2. Was Kelsey Grammer there?
The uber-repuke hails from the Virgin Islands.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)3. Oh my
snooper2
(30,151 posts)4. AWESOME! I'm taking off work for at least the first two days of Cleveland...
LIVE STREAM LIVE STREAM!
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!
Greatest election cycle ever!
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)6. "Are you not entertained?" nt
snooper2
(30,151 posts)7. Well, I'm not not entertained!
Bjornsdotter
(6,123 posts)5. Guns and Politics
....what could possibly go wrong?