Virgin Islands GOP Meeting Ends With Shoving, Shouting and Cops

[geek tragedy]

Source: MSN/Talking Points Memo



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."


Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/virgin-islands-gop-meeting-ends-with-shoving-shouting-and-cops/ar-BBrUavP

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Can't wait for Cleveland!

[PeoViejo]

1. The crazies are coming out of the woodwork

Time for D-con.

[Jopin Klobe]

15. The problem is, for the past decades, ...

... the crazies have helped construct, have been and are a part of the woodwork ...

... our country is becoming more and more unstable because of them ...

[WhiteTara]

2. Yikes! Cleveland should be quite the show!

[Auggie]

3. That's batshit crazy ...

fighting over who goes to Cleveland.



I grew up there and know.

[blm]

5. What part?

I grew up there, too. Suburbs.

[NutmegYankee]

4. I can't wait till July.

[tanyev]

28. I'm going to DVR every minute of it.

Just in case there are parts I want to watch over and over again.

[Hekate]

6. Un-freakin-believable

[LiberalArkie]

7. They have to be crazy to hold a Republican meeting at a gun range.

[elljay]

13. I sure hope they served alcohol!

And, to respond to your point, yes, they are crazy.

[TacoD]

8. Maybe Republican state and national conventions should be held at gun ranges (nt)

[MynameisBlarney]

9. And things are beginning to

go just a weeeee bit catty-whompus in the ol GOTP.

[AxionExcel]

10. ReThugs got so much hate & fail going on they have to share it with each other

[jtuck004]

12. Whose Wall Street buddies? n/t

[jtuck004]

11. And the rules prevent "Open Carry"? That just seems a shame. n/t

[geek tragedy]

14. maybe knives will be allowed nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Open carry outside the convention. Ohio police must ensure safety of protesters. . . nt

[Enthusiast]

22. I predict there will be killing.

Ohio police? They will take aim at the protestors.

[elljay]

34. A reminder of an Ohio protest by CSNY

[SoapBox]

16. Hey PukeBaggers...you might want to consider, at the Convention, wearing a

bullet proof vest!

And that is to protect yourselves against each other.

Oh...and for the men a "cup" might offer protection from any "low blows" because it appears that it's an anything goes type of rumble, uh, convention.

[Carolina]

18. They met at a gun range!

There are no words

[geek tragedy]

19. I guess the ninja store was closed nt

[Else You Are Mad]

21. Exactly.

I am sure there are much better locations in the Virgin Islands than a gun range... though most of those places probably wouldn't allow them to wear their surrogate penis accessories...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

23. Great place for mom to bring the kids.

[Else You Are Mad]

20. Gun range?!?! The next planned meeting...

will be held at the Thunderdome:

[yellowcanine]

24. "Virgin Islands GOP Meeting at a Gun Range" ...... And it is NOT the Onion

[geek tragedy]

25. using an ammo shell as a gavel for the meeting! nt

[TygrBright]

26. We're gonna suggest our friends in Cleveland consider a visit to NM during the Convention. n/t

[Dont call me Shirley]

27. Doesn't that just figure, the GOP holds a controversial meeting at a gun range!

[Sunlei]

29. GOP takes their campaign delegates to a gun range in St. Croix. How much do they spend on delegates

[geek tragedy]

30. important thing is that no guns were harmed nt

[brooklynite]

31. Can't they just work things out on the golf course?

I'm sure Donald has one handy...

[Curtis]

32. I'm on St. Croix right now

Funny thing is the majority of people with whom I converse laugh at Trump and the GOP in general. Bernie seems to be a huge favorite among boaters at least

[geek tragedy]

33. my coworker was remarking how every Republican in the VI may have attended nt

[forest444]

35. And let me guess:

Threats to expose each other's offshore accounts.

[pfitz59]

36. Trouble in Paradise

Peel back the facade and even Eden has roaches...

[bluevoter4life]

37. I lived in the USVI for a year and a half

Based on what I saw on STT, I honestly thought the Republican party was an extinct species down there. I think the Legislature is (or at least was) 100% Democrat.