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

[Zorro]

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 worshiped 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.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-rupert-tarsey-20171129-htmlstory.html

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. "No self-respecting Republican would support a man who took a claw hammer to a woman"

Donald Trump would

[gratuitous]

8. I'd like to test that hypothesis

First, we need a self-respecting Republican.

Test over.

[anneboleyn]

9. Trump: there are good people on both sides, mmmkaaaaaay?

[Ken Burch]

12. "it was a locker room tool".

[DBoon]

2. Amazing how the wealthy can cover their tracks

in a family with fewer resources he would have a felony record

[mfcorey1]

3. Good grief!!!

[Pacifist Patriot]

4. I have no doubt whatsoever, that if he were in Congress...

Trump and the GOP would have his back.

“No self-respecting Republican, Democrat or independent would support an individual who took a claw hammer to a female.”

That would go right out the window for the Republicans if control of Congress were in play.

[raccoon]

5. I sincerely hope the Republicans in Broward County

I sincerely hope the Republicans in Broward County get rid of this asshole. He is a ticking time bomb.

It is absolutely shameful that he got off so easily but money talks and when it does people listen. This guys not fit to be in any kind of public office. Why doesn't he stay in his fucking mansion with the swimming pool and not bother anybody?

If he has all these " neurological problems" he doesn't need to be in any kind of office anyway.

Thanks for posting this. Sounds like both party should start running a background check on people that they don't know very well. They do that for a lot of low level jobs nowadays.

[The Polack MSgt]

6. Well with that history of mental illness...

at least he has an understandable reason to be a Republican

[brer cat]

7. ...

[anneboleyn]

10. Ted Bundy was a rising star in the Republican Party before his other career was discovered

Honestly, I used to think the Bundy stuff was a joke...but it’s true. This guy sounds dangerous — how appalling.

[Fozzledick]

11. Aw, I thought this was about Trump

who was expelled from the first elite prep school his father sent him to for bullying other students and starting fights.

Then the "military" prep school he got sent to next to try to control his violent tendencies formally disciplined him for brutally hazing younger students.