Thread by @AliAdair22

💥Old thread re: Matt Gaetz that was broken several times, deserves a read tonight.

Escapades in #Florida...

💥One ex-opponent of Gaetz asserts: "...the people I've met either don't care for Matt Gaetz or are fearful of Matt (his father, former State Senator) and Don Gaetz."

💥Matt Gaetz was arrested in Okaloosa County in 2008 with reasonable suspicion. He refused the breathalyzer.

🌴In Florida, this is usually a mandatory license suspension. Instead, arresting officer Okaloosa County Deputy Chris Anglin resigned. 1/

slate.com/news-and-polit…

💥The charges were dropped.

👉Here's another account on his wikipedia page 2/

(link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Gaetz) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Gaetz

📹Here's some more details on his DUI arrest. Apparently, a video of the incident was "destroyed."

📼The video in the other deputy's car was pointed in the other direction. 3/

tampabay.com/news/publicsaf…

🏛From 2010-16, he was a member of the #Florida House of Representatives from the 4th district.

🌴You'd think he'd be helping the people of Florida, right? 4/

🖼Well, when his mugshot from the DUI arrest, he used his position to introduce a self-serving bill that would keep mug shots of people who are charged with crimes off the Internet until they are convicted. 5/

orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-…

🖼It's now a law in Florida which requires websites that publish mug shots to take them down upon request if the person pictured is not convicted.

Not a terrible law, but this seems pretty far removed from what public service is supposed to be. 6/

💥In March of 2018, he told @JoyAnnReid that he thought people should be able to take guns into U.S. Congress!

No comment. 7/

https://twitter.com/amjoyshow/status/970322366512402432?s=20

@JoyAnnReid 💥His father, Donald J. "Don" Gaetz, was a #Florida State Senator from 2006-2016. He was Senate President from 2012-2014.

⁉Is it possible some Floridians elected Matt Gaetz by mistake thinking he was his father? 8/

🔗en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Gaetz) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Gaetz

@JoyAnnReid 👉Because hmmm....

💥In 2013, he announced he would run for his father's #Florida Senate seat in 2016.

👉His father was term-limited. 9/

👉But on March 21, 2016, he suddenly dropped out of that race & entered the race for U.S. House Representative in #Florida's 1st District when the incumbent Jeff Miller dropped out of the race.

💥Gaetz announced his candidacy 11 days after Miller said he wasn't running. 10/

🎖👞Former #Florida Rep. Jeff Miller did a lot of work with veterans. Nat'l Rep Congressional Committee Chairman Greg Walden said in a statement that Miller's successor “will have very large shoes to fill.” 11/

politico.com/story/2016/03/…

👉You tell me.

👟👞Is Matt Gaetz filling these shoes? 12/

#VetsResist

💥And former Okaloosa County Commissioner Wayne Harris (a Republican who ran against him for #Florida state House) suggests that #Floridians are "scared" of Matt Gaetz and his father. 13/

nwfdailynews.com/article/201511…

💥Then there was that time Matt Gaetz defended #GymJordan, saying that the Ohio State University wrestling team sex abuse scandal was a "deliberate attempt" to disrupt upcoming testimony from FBI Agent Peter Strzok. 14/

tampabay.com/florida-politi…

💥Maybe the scariest #KochedUp move by Matt Gaetz was when he introduced a bill in Congress to terminate the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

#ClimateChangeIsReal

congress.gov/bill/115th-con…

💥Gaetz Greatest Hits (cont'd) November 2017: Matt Gaetz got up (in front of virtually no one) in Congress & ranted that a coup d'état was happening with Robert Mueller & that Mueller should either resign or be fired...due to conflicts of interest. 16/

thehill.com/homenews/house…

👉Please consider a donation tonight to Matt Gaetz' future opponent.

💥If he makes it that long.

It's not looking good for him!

https://twitter.com/AliAdair22/status/1100561272666497025?s=20

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