Republican candidate for Congress in Connecticut's 2nd District abruptly drops out...

[George II]

Source: Hartford Courant

Full Headline: Republican candidate for Congress in Connecticut’s 2nd District abruptly drops out following his arrest late Monday

By DANIELA ALTIMARI HARTFORD COURANT | AUG 11, 2020 AT 10:59 AM

A Republican running for Congress in Connecticut’s 2nd District abruptly dropped his bid on the day of the primary following his arrest.

Thomas Gilmer of Madison was arrested by Wethersfield police late Monday, a department official confirmed. He was charged on a warrant with first-degree unlawful restraint and second-degree strangulation and posted a $5,000 bond.

Sources told the Courant the charges stem from a violent altercation with a former girlfriend. Police said they were first contacted on July 22 and opened an investigation.

Gilmer, the Republican party’s endorsed candidate, released a statement blaming his primary opponent, Justin Anderson, for “slinging mud.‘'

Read more: https://www.courant.com/politics/hc-pol-tom-gilmer-congress-arrest-20200811-vgzqrwhgonagnpyicmts522h3y-story.html

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They sure can pick them, eh? So he strangles his ex-girlfriend and it's his opponent's fault! I think trump has a job for him in his cabinet.

[dem4decades]

1. Trump Republicans will still probably vote for him. His girlfriend might have been a librul.

[NurseJackie]

15. He's already unplugged his website... but here's his mugshot.

https://www.gilmerforcongress.com/

[Grokenstein]

16. Eurgh. Like Stephen Miller and Eric Trump got into a telepod together.

I'd rather have Brundlefly in Congress.

[marble falls]

17. The photograph is enough to make me hate him. is that his wife or girlfreind in the 2nd photo?

[NurseJackie]

20. What is is about Republicans and "that look" they frequently have? Smug. Arrogant.

What is is about Republicans and "that look" they frequently have? Smug. Arrogant. Frauds. Phonies. Entitled.

[marble falls]

21. You forgot "eminently punchable". I'm speaking academically, of course.

[NurseJackie]

22. Well yes, of course, naturally. That almost goes without saying...

... but it certainly is FUN to say it out loud.

[jimfields33]

2. Too bad this didn't come out after the primary especially if he won

Easy Democratic win. Although I don’t know the area so it might be a Democratic win anyway.

[George II]

3. All five of our members of Congress have been Democrats for at least ten years, probably longer....

Our two Senators are Democrats, too, as are our Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of the State, Treasurer, and Comptroller.

The person he would have run against is Joe Courtney, who has been in office for 14 years and wins easily. There were Democrats in that seat for a number of years, too.

It's a sea of blue out there!

[jimfields33]

4. Oh. That's awesome news.

[groundloop]

5. Sounds like all that's missing is a Democratic President and Democratic Senate.

[George II]

7. I'll go for that.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. 'Manly' guy beating up woman. Is this tRump's kind of man who'd be insulted by Biden woman VP pick?

[DavidDvorkin]

13. Probably so, and such men won't be voting for Biden, anyway.

[marble falls]

18. But he kept one hand behind his back. Mostly.

[Miguelito Loveless]

8. How do you strangle someone "in the second degree"?

[George II]

9. I guess if he succeeded it would have been 1st degree?

[Miguelito Loveless]

10. Maybe it's about how many fingers you use

10 fingers - 1st degree
6-9 fingers - 2nd degree
1-5 fingers - 3rd degree

[marble falls]

19. By wearing soft gloves.

[robbob]

25. That's not funny

You just asked a question that seems like a set up for your punch line (post #10, above) which is basically the number of fingers you use to strangle a woman determines if it’s first, second, or third degree strangling.

Not funny. I would suggest maybe deleting this post and the follow up?

<on edit> read the fully story in the link if you have the stomach for it. What that monster did (apparently video taped) was so much more then “3 vs. 10 fingers”. I don’t know what “second degree strangling” is, but it sounds to me more like he should be charged with attempted murder.

[Miguelito Loveless]

28. I was not making a humorous remark,

but a withering criticism of the stupidity of the lawmakers and their obsession with "granularity". And I completely agree with you that the charge should have been attempted murder.

[robbob]

29. Ok, sorry to get snarky...

But I certainly perceived it as a joke, albeit one in poor taste. Maybe the thingy would have been appropriate.

[Miguelito Loveless]

30. A good suggestion

Thank you.

[NCjack]

11. Mr. Gilmer, please don't resign. You can run and work on clearing your name

at the same time. For sure, that video of your attack is a FAKE.

[H2O Man]

12. "It's a conspiracy against me!"

Recommended.

[CTyankee]

14. Madison is a pretty high end town, if that's where he's from or wanting to represent.

he talks about getting back to good old fashioned Yankee values. Abusing women must be one that I missed in Yankee values class...

[paleotn]

23. Typical rethuglican....

There's really nothing left of the party but thugs, trash and racists.

[Ligyron]

24. Ya know what's odd?

I don't really know and definitely don't hang with any RW Trump/GPO pee pee types as a general rule.

In fact, the only one I do know fairly well is an otherwise great guy, a biker type of Italian descent from West Haven Connecticut who I only connect with on FB anymore. He has as a fairly large bunch of similarly deluded friends from there who post on his page as well and more than a few are related to him.

It's clear from their pronouncements that they know who to hate but if memory serves, it wasn't all that long ago that Italians were the hated group and I'm just old enough to remember conversations pondering whether or not Italians could be properly classified as "white" people.

I know Connecticut to be by and large a very progressive state but the irony on display day in and day out there on my friend's page is mind boggling and the only real glimpse I have into the hate filled minds of a significant number of our fellow countrymen.

IDK why but I just had to get that off my chest, sorry and thanks to those who listened.

[George II]

26. Growing up in Brooklyn and Queens in the late 40s and 50s, Italians were looked down upon....

...with disdain.

This was the result of huge immigration from Europe after WWII, lots of Italians traveled to NYC and settled in. They were spoken of as being stupid, loud, dirty, criminals, and as you point out some wondered if they were even "white". They were discriminated against and treated poorly.

Then in the late 50s into the 60s lots of people came to NYC from Puerto Rico and they were treated even worse, probably because it was evident that they were not "white".

We've gone through eras of discrimination over the years - the Germans in the early 20th Century, and as mentioned Italians and Puerto Ricans, and now those from India and the Middle East and, its seems ALWAYS Asians.

I remember my (step) grandfather in Toronto talking about immigrants in the 1960s, mostly from Pakistan, calling them "those Pakis with their goddamn turbines" (that's how he pronounced it!)

Throughout all of this, obviously from about 5-12 years old, I was too young to have any opinions. But I was amazed at how people acted toward others just because of where they came from.

[George II]

27. Even though he dropped out, it looks like this guy is going to win the republicans primary....

He's ahead by 50.2% to 49.8%. And indication of the values of republican voters, (although we had an unprecedented number of mail-in votes so most were sent in before this incident.

Even so, nobody is going to beat Democrat Joe Courtney in November.