Update 3: Speaker wants Wintle (GOP gun brandisher) barred from (Maine) Statehouse (Maine)

[jpak]

http://www.wgme.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wgme_vid_7919.shtml

In the wake of Rep. Frederick Wintle's arrest for pointing a gun at a newspaper photographer in a Dunkin Donuts parking lot in Waterville, Maine House Speaker Robert Nutting (edit R-moran) is asking prosecutors to bar Wintle from the statehouse as part of any bail conditions.

A Republican (edit R-moran) from Garland, Wintle is facing charges of criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon and carrying a concealed weapon after Morning Sentinel photographer Michael Seamans told police Wintle confronted him Saturday morning, accused Seamans of being a drug dealer for the mother of an infant who died this week at a Waterville homeless shelter and pointed a .22 caliber handgun at him.

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"Our first concern is the safety of all members of the Legislature, statehouse employees and members of the public at the capitol,:" Nutting said. "I have asked the district attorney to make a condition of Rep. Wintle's bail be that he is barred from the capitol campus, and we have revoked electronic badge privileges for entry to the statehouse as well."

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So the GOPbaggers now want the State House to be a gun-free zone?

How authoritarian

:D

[iwishiwas]

1. I hope that as a condition of bail that Wintle get psychological

counseling--and he pays for it himself.

[Bluzmann57]

2. In this particular case, one can't really blame the repukes

For wanting that guy barred. At least until this thing plays out and we see what's going to happen.

[glinda]

3. Unrec'cd already. Wintle's behavior should be cause for concern.

[gejohnston]

4. more like has issues free zone

I still say the gun in state house had more to do with distraction. Make the public freak out over something trivial to cover up laziness and stupidity.

[rl6214]

5. "How authoritarian" of you to presume to say what should be