LaTimes has very **Different story now-- Man who attacked classmate with hammer can keep GOP post,
Mods. I was going to post this--which seems to be a very different story in LBN but it was locked. I have no problems with it being locked as I see there were stories from several days ago--and NOT LBN.
But it is curious that the LATimes would have such a revised story. Anyway....
LaTimes has very **Different story now--> Man who attacked classmate with hammer can keep GOP post,
The stories in the OP [which is a Related story in LAtimes by same headline] say he was convicted of a misdemeanor --so he could vote. Now this new story says: "Last year, he successfully petitioned to reduce the felony to a misdemeanor" No mention of voting or voting rights. Also this story is very much more positive in that the man Ditsworth has redeemed himself.
LBN tread (which is now locked)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141930551
Man who attacked classmate with hammer can keep GOP post, Florida state party official says
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-florida-rupert-tarsey-20171205-story.html
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Rupert Ditsworth.
Rupert Ditsworth. He was sentenced to six years' probation for an attack on a female classmate while in high school in L.A. He later changed his last name to Tarsey and moved to Florida. (Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department)
Alene TchekmedyianAlene TchekmedyianContact Reporter
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He invited a schoolmate to lunch one day in May and on their drive back, detoured to a quiet residential street. There, he told her that he had thoughts of suicide. She suggested he drive back to school and see a counselor.
Instead, according to court records, he reached inside his backpack, pulled out a claw hammer and started swinging. He smashed his classmate’s nose and leg, split her scalp and gave her two black eyes.
As part of a plea agreement brokered with prosecutors, he pleaded no contest to one felony count of assault with a deadly weapon, avoided jail time and was sentenced to six years’ probation.
He changed his name and moved to Florida, where he received extensive mental health treatment, excelled in college and earned a master’s degree in business administration. Last year, he successfully petitioned to reduce the felony to a misdemeanor.
Ingoglia also criticized the local party’s leadership for damaging the broader GOP.
“It is unfortunate how this matter is being made public and how the leadership of the Broward REC, which is in complete disarray, is damaging the Republican Party to further their own personal agendas,” Ingoglia said. “BREC leadership should consider themselves on a very short leash.”
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