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Candidate for PA House seat assaulted amid warnings about election-related threats and violence
Caption: Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania's 51st district [Fayette] Richard Ringer (Photo credit: Friends of Richard Ringer Facebook page)
(link) https://www.post-gazette.com/news/election2022/2022/10/31/democrat-richard-ringer-candidate-for-pa-house-seat-assaulted-election/stories/202210310087
A candidate running for a state House seat called 911 Monday morning after being assaulted at his Fayette County home in what would be the third time in two weeks he has had to call police to his residence.
Democrat Richard Ringer said he was bloodied and knocked unconscious by an attacker in his backyard around 5 a.m.
“A guy was standing with his back to me. I went and bear-hugged him, wrestled, ended up on the ground,” said Mr. Ringer, 69, who is running in a contested race for the open 51st House District seat against Republican Charity Grimm Krupa. “He was larger than I am and he pinned me down on my left side. ... He hit me 10 to 12 times in the head, in the face and by the eye and he knocked me out.”
A call placed to the state police trooper who responded to a call to Mr. Ringer’s home was not returned on Monday afternoon. Mr. Ringer said his hands were bloodied and his faced bruised from the attack. Mr. Ringer said he couldn’t provide police with much of a description of the man.
Mr. Ringer has also had two incidents of vandalism to his home that have occurred within the last two weeks. One, a threatening apparently election-related message spray-painted on his garage door and the other a brick thrown through a storm door window. The spray-painted message was partially washed off by the rain by the time Mr. Ringer saw it, but what was left clearly visible were the words “your race” and “dead.”
Democrat Richard Ringer said he was bloodied and knocked unconscious by an attacker in his backyard around 5 a.m.
“A guy was standing with his back to me. I went and bear-hugged him, wrestled, ended up on the ground,” said Mr. Ringer, 69, who is running in a contested race for the open 51st House District seat against Republican Charity Grimm Krupa. “He was larger than I am and he pinned me down on my left side. ... He hit me 10 to 12 times in the head, in the face and by the eye and he knocked me out.”
A call placed to the state police trooper who responded to a call to Mr. Ringer’s home was not returned on Monday afternoon. Mr. Ringer said his hands were bloodied and his faced bruised from the attack. Mr. Ringer said he couldn’t provide police with much of a description of the man.
Mr. Ringer has also had two incidents of vandalism to his home that have occurred within the last two weeks. One, a threatening apparently election-related message spray-painted on his garage door and the other a brick thrown through a storm door window. The spray-painted message was partially washed off by the rain by the time Mr. Ringer saw it, but what was left clearly visible were the words “your race” and “dead.”
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The newly re-drawn 51st District is approximately 50 miles south of Pittsburgh, and it encompasses much of Fayette County.
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is the same as it has been for the last ...at least ten years...WHO WILL STOP THEM?
My frustration is the same as many other DUers. Every day I see these things happening and reported on here at DU.
I see anger and frustration... what I don not see is planning. Planning for what comes next when they deny the result of this election... which they surely will.
Where is the leadership on this? WHAT COMES NEXT? How will we effectively organize?
WHAT IS THE PLAN?
