A woman named Selena Chambers was arrested by the Walton County, Florida Sheriff’s Office after it found she “intentionally threw a glass of wine at Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) after shouting obscenities at him.”
She was “charged with battery on an elected official and issued a $1,000 bond” after being released the following day.
The reported assault happened while Gaetz and his wife were at the South Walton Beaches Wine & Food Festival.
“We were enjoying catching up with new friends and old,” Gaetz said of the assault. “As I was chatting with one gentleman, a lady threw a drink on the both of us, and she was promptly arrested.”
“I want to thank the great folks at the Walton County Sheriff’s Office who ensured this did not escalate and that everyone is kept safe,” the congressman said.
He described the woman as a “left-wing author” who “became very obsessed with Donald Trump and engaged in something called resistance expression.”
Gaetz said he will be “pressing charges against this individual in order to uphold the civility our community deserves.”
“Whenever there’s a conservative who acts out of line, it’s like the biggest story in the world. But when you get a radicalized leftist breaking the peace in my community, who traveled here by the way from Tallahassee, Florida, I doubt it’ll get the same pickup, but we will make sure that there are appropriate consequences through the legal system because that’s what the safety of our community demands,” Gaetz concluded, according to one report.