https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/09/11/a-california-man-tried-to-stab-a-gop-congressional-candidate-but-his-knife-didnt-work
A GOP congressional candidate in California found himself in a life-threatening situation Sunday when a man tried to stab him with a switchblade at a festival, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Rudy Peters, a Navy veteran who is running against Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell in California’s 15th District, was at the Castro Valley Fall Festival when Farzad Fazeli attacked him.
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“It’s a shame,” Peters told the San Francisco Chronicle. “People are just polarized right now, and this country’s divided and it’s just a mess. It shouldn’t be that way.”
What happened?
Peters was working an election booth at the fall festival when Fazeli approached. Fazeli started insulting Republicans and yelling profanities against President Donald Trump.
“All of a sudden we hear someone screaming, ‘F*** Trump, f*** Trump!'” Peters said.
Peters and Republican state Assembly candidate Joseph Grear, who was also at the booth, thought that would be the end of it. But Fazeli wasn’t done.
“The next thing you know, he stops and turns around and says ‘I’ll show you,’ and runs at the booth,” Peters told the Chronicle. “He’s screaming, ‘I’m gonna kill you, motherf***er!'”
Fazeli grabbed a cup of coffee and threw it at Peters, and Peters responded by coming around the table to restrain him. Then, Fazeli pulled out the switchblade. But, he couldn’t get the blade to come out.
While Peters was protecting himself with a sign as a shield, the man left the booth after his knife failed to work. Police arrested him soon after at a nearby bank.
Fazeli was charged Tuesday with a felony count of making criminal threats and a misdemeanor count of exhibiting a deadly weapon and possessing a switchblade.
Rep. Swalwell sent his well wishes to Peters.
“I’m glad to hear Mr. Peters is okay,” Swalwell wrote on Twitter. “But it’s NEVER okay to use violence to settle political disagreements (or any disagreement).”
Should politicians like Maxine Waters be held to account, or should she run for President in 2020?
https://www.theblaze.com/video/unhinged-maxine-waters-denies-threatening-trump-supporters-then-brags-she-does-it-all-the-time
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Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters ramped up her hatred toward President Donald Trump on Saturday during an acceptance speech for an award from the Stonewall Young Democrats in Los Angeles. [Read more on this here.]
On Tuesday’s “Glenn Beck Radio Program,” Glenn and the guys reacted to the California Democrat’s bizarre speech, in which she claimed that she’s “going to get” President Trump. She also renewed her call for supporters to heckle members of the Trump administration.
“There are those who said we lacked civility when I got up and talked about the President’s Cabinet, and I said if you see them anywhere, if you see them at a restaurant, if you see them in a department store, even at a gasoline station, just tell them you’re not welcome here or anywhere,” Waters said.
“This was pretty bad,” said Pat Gray of Waters’ speech, noting that she went on to call Trump “the lying president” over his claim that she threatened his supporters.
“I did not threaten his constituents, his supporters,” Waters said. “I do that all the time, but I didn’t do it that time.”
Glenn pointed out that the Red Hen, the Lexington, Virginia, restaurant that booted White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders earlier this year, as well as the entire town of Lexington are facing terrible financial hardship after the restaurant’s owner followed Waters’ advice of just telling “them you’re not welcome here or anywhere.”
“They’re begging for visitors to come to the town,” Glenn added. “Nobody’s coming to them and they are a big tourist town and nobody’s coming. They’re dying on the vine.”
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Originally posted by @whodeyWhat is wrong with you? (I mean, besides the obvious.)
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For the love of God, please learn to edit your cut 'n' paste rantings.
Originally posted by @whodeyYou are aware that heckling somebody and trying to knife them are two rather different things?
How can this woman continue in Congress with the DNC's blessing?
The entire DNC should be declared a hate group.
Can anyone imagine someone from the GOP doing this to Obama from Congressional chambers?
Is that the new right wing campaign? To criminalize membership in the Democratic Party?
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Originally posted by @no1marauderand this idiot thinks pulling a knife on someone is heckling them...IDIOT!
You are aware that heckling somebody and trying to knife them are two rather different things?
Is that the new right wing campaign? To criminalize membership in the Democratic Party?
Originally posted by @whodeyDims, Plural? Where are the rest of the murderous crowd then? Are they up to the number of deaths caused by any of the school shootings or that guy in Vegas?
Should politicians like Maxine Waters be held to account, or should she run for President in 2020?
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Originally posted by @mott-the-hoopleSo it would just be 'boys will be boys' if the dude happened to have attacked a republican? Wooden heart would not even have posted that piece if the attacker was a repub attacking a Dem.
and this idiot thinks pulling a knife on someone is heckling them...IDIOT!
Originally posted by @mott-the-hoopleWow, I didn't know Republicans were so pure of heart they would never attack ANYONE. Good to know.
ummm...if, and a big if, it ever happens we will see
Originally posted by @mott-the-hoopleAnd this idiot thinks heckling someone is pulling a knife on them...IDIOT!
and this idiot thinks pulling a knife on someone is heckling them...IDIOT!
Originally posted by @no1marauderYou are aware that heckling somebody and trying to knife them are two rather different things?
You are aware that heckling somebody and trying to knife them are two rather different things?
Is that the new right wing campaign? To criminalize membership in the Democratic Party?
No, I don't think he is.
Originally posted by @mott-the-hoopleAh, so the literally thousands of attacks that go on each year and there are millions of democrats and millions of republicans, not a single attack was done by a republican. Amazing. I did not know they were so pure of heart.
well you could always show your proof it has happened.
Right now your republican buddy Kavanaugh has been accused of a violent attack on a now college professor who just came out and accused him of sexual assault. She is also willing to say so to the world in a senate hearing AND has passed a lie detector test. I guess there is ONE republican who attacked someone. My guess, and it is only a guess mind you, there are others too.