Lawmaker gets restraining order against another lawmaker

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 7:37 pm, Friday, March 9, 2018

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania state lawmaker who says a fellow lawmaker pulled a gun on her and threatened to kill her has gotten a restraining order against him.

State Rep. Tarah Toohil alleges that fellow Republican Rep. Nick Miccarelli pointed a gun at her in 2012 and on another occasion, when the two were in a car, warned he would crash the vehicle while speeding 100 mph on a highway, The Citizens' Voice reported .

A Luzerne County judged granted the restraining order Friday, barring Miccarelli from contacting Toohil and prohibiting him from possessing firearms.

He has not been charged with any crime and denies the allegations. He called them "complete fabrications" in a March 1 Facebook post.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Lawmaker-gets-restraining-order-against-another-12742399.php

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Republican Rep. Nick Miccarelli

[stuffmatters]

1. Another Toxic Male Repug who thinks "sex" gel on his hair & a Trump tie make him irresistible..

I would not get into an elevator with him.

[BlueMTexpat]

2. Why on earth would she

have anything to do with him, e.g., voluntarily get in a car with him, after he had pointed a gun at her in a threatening manner, assuming that her getting into the car with him on another occasion was voluntary?

Oh, I see that she is a GOPer too! That probably explains it. Typical logic-challenged behavior!

[BumRushDaShow]

4. See post #3 - they previously had a relationship. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Apparently they had a relationship

and he apparently had other relationships before he finally got married in 2014 (from OP article) -

In a separate allegation against Miccarelli, a political consultant claims that after she ended their relationship in 2014, Miccarelli came to her house and forced her to have sex, holding her neck during part of the alleged attack. Miccarelli also denies those allegations.

Toohil, who has not alleged Miccarelli sexually attacked her, said in her request for the protection order that Miccarelli had attempted to blackmail her by releasing photographs and that he has harassed and stalked her since a relationship between them ended.

https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Lawmaker-gets-restraining-order-against-another-12742399.php

More details here -

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The allegations that Toohil and the second woman leveled in their Feb. 8 complaint — first reported last month by the Inquirer and Daily News and the Caucus — are under review by the Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office and House GOP lawyers. In that complaint, Toohil contended that Miccarelli kicked, pinched, or hit her when they dated, including at legislative events they attended. And she described him wielding a gun during an argument while driving at high speed. The second woman, a private consultant who has not made her name public, accused Miccarelli of forcing her to have sex after they stopped dating in 2014.

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Toohil’s relationship with Miccarelli has once before come under scrutiny. In 2013, the Inquirer reported that then-House leaders asked the state police to investigate anonymous videos that disparaged Toohil. One was sent by email to every member of the House and contained a picture of Toohil when she was younger. In the photo, she is seated at a table with a smoking device and what appears to be marijuana.

Soon after, a Democrat trying to unseat Toohil that year briefly ran a campaign ad that featured a photo of Toohil and a man atop a camel during a trip to Israel. In the photo, the man had his arms wrapped around her waist. The man was Miccarelli, and the two were in Israel for an educational trip sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. Her hometown newspapers pounced on the trip, as well as her relationship with Miccarelli.

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After the House lawyers began their inquiry last month, Miccarelli was stripped of his security privileges at the Capitol, meaning he is no longer permitted to park his car in a garage reserved for lawmakers and must enter the building through manned security stations at doors used by members of the general public.

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http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nick-miccarelli-pfa-tarah-toohill-abuse-allegations-20180309.html

[stuffmatters]

5. Blackmail, harrassing. stalking. Wow, this guy has the Repug "Charm Offenive" down

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Another nasty split

It's like this society needs cultured and safe etiquette courses. Lack of respect and intolerance go hand in hand. So we see where the authoritarian righteous mindset leads.

[Canoe52]

7. Those zany repugs, always goofing around, so much fun they are!

He pulls a gun on her one time, then she gets in a car with him another time? And now she gets a restraining order?

[malthaussen]

8. Dang, I left PA before the fun started. n/t