Florida leaders silent after senator confronts staffer at women’s shelter Republican Sen. Tom Wright

 
Florida leaders silent after senator confronts staffer at women’s shelter

TALLAHASSEE — Senate leaders have been silent about an angry confrontation between Republican Sen. Tom Wright and a female staffer at a Daytona Beach shelter for battered and abused women and their children over the Labor Day weekend.

According to police reports, Wright yelled, lunged at, and placed his hand on the shoulder of a staff member who stopped Wright from getting on a bus full of the shelter’s residents out of concern for protecting their identities.

Video footage provided by the Daytona Beach Police Department shows Wright’s tense encounter with a much shorter female staffer, who ran up to him to get him off the bus. Another employee stepped between them, and Wright, 71, turned to walk away, only to confront the worker a couple of more times before leaving.

“For a political leader to come there and aggress on an employee in front of a busload of women and children who are making the courageous decision to protect themselves from violence is one of the most disgusting behaviors I have ever seen,” said Angie Pye, the former CEO of the Beacon Center, where the incident occurred.

Confrontation at women's shelter

State Sen. Tom Wright, R-New Smyrna Beach, confronts a female staffer at a Daytona Beach shelter for battered and abused women over the Labor Day weekend. (Video courtesy of Daytona Beach Police Department)

 

Confrontation at women's shelter
State Sen. Tom Wright, R-New Smyrna Beach, confronts a female staffer at a Daytona Beach shelter for battered and abused women over the Labor Day weekend. (Video courtesy of Daytona Beach Police Department)

IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG WITH FLORIDA REPUBLICANS THAT THEY REMAIN SILENT ABOUT THIS IDIOCY?

POLICE WERE CALLED!

State Sen. Tom Wright, R-New Smyrna Beach, confronts a female staffer at a Daytona Beach shelter for battered and abused women over the Labor Day weekend. (Video courtesy of Daytona Beach Police Department)