Former Republican candidate arrested in shootings targeting Democratic politicians’ homes

[Scott]

 

The Albuquerque Police Department has arrested Solomon Pena, an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the House District 14 seat in the South Valley, in connection with the shootings at local Democratic politicians’ homes, the police chief announced Monday afternoon.

“Pena, an unsuccessful legislative candidate in the 2022 election, is accused of conspiring with, and paying four other men to shoot at the homes of two county commissioners and two state legislators,” Chief Harold Medina said.

 

https://www.abqjournal.com/2565117/solomon-pena-arrested-in-shootings-targeting-new-mexico-democratic-politicians-homes.html

[ozimoron]

Conspiracy theorists. Ya gotta love 'em. Drain the swamp?

 

A review of Pena's social media history shows he is an ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump, and that he took pride in the fact that he never conceded his election to Garcia despite getting absolutely blown out by the Democratic incumbent.

 

As the Albuquerque Journal notes, Pena has made "frequent postings" on his Twitter account in which he "maintained that he didn’t lose and that the election was rigged."

 

https://www.rawstory.com/solomon-pena-arrested/

Edited January 17, 2023 by ozimoron

[Tug]

There’s an example of a domestic terrorist I sincerely hope he gets decades in the pen.

[ozimoron]

2 minutes ago, Tug said:

There’s an example of a domestic terrorist I sincerely hope he gets decades in the pen.

According to the FBI, domestic terrorism is the number 1 threat to American security. Fortunately, most of them have outed themselves, like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers and the (how many percenters is this week?) orgs.

 

https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/national/military-news/domestic-violent-extremism-main-threat-united-states-2022/291-119b97d5-57db-42b4-9181-c9fe7c3c0d1e

[Chomper Higgot]

I wonder if it crosses the minds of the minority who voted for this violent criminal that they themselves are lacking some ability to judge who is a candidate worthy of their vote?

 

 

[Jingthing]

Still much less embarrassing than Santos 

[Berkshire]

20 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Still much less embarrassing than Santos 

Yeah, but this dude is going to be spending a lot of time in the pen.  Luckily he won't be alone.  Federal pen's now have a MAGA wing....just like the Mexican Mafia, Aryan Brotherhood, and the Black Guerilla Family. 

[Phoenix Rising]

1 hour ago, Berkshire said:

Yeah, but this dude is going to be spending a lot of time in the pen.  Luckily he won't be alone.  Federal pen's now have a MAGA wing....just like the Mexican Mafia, Aryan Brotherhood, and the Black Guerilla Family. 

Tbh, I don't see why the MAGA nutters wouldn't gain automatic membership in the Aryan Brotherhood.

[Berkshire]

8 minutes ago, Phoenix Rising said:

Tbh, I don't see why the MAGA nutters wouldn't gain automatic membership in the Aryan Brotherhood.

5555....you're probably right.  But even prison gangs have standards.

[ozimoron]

Jamie Raskin draws a direct line between Jan. 6 and accused New Mexico MAGA shooter

 

"Essentially, if you were willing to support Trump, it didn't make any difference if you were a Holocaust revisionist, if you were marching in Charlottesville, if you were a liar, a cheat, a swindler, what have you," he explained. "And when Kevin McCarthy decided to embrace Trumpism, he by definition, embraced that credo too. The chickens are coming home to roost with people like George Santos and Lauren Boebert and this guy in New Mexico.

 

https://www.rawstory.com/extremism-terrorism-linked-january-6/

[Pattaya Spotter]

Doesn't take loosing lying down!

[Purdey]

Fantacists want the world to change in the way they want and are not self aware of their own inadequacies. I am sure their families will swear later, "He was such a quiet, sweet boy who never talked back to his mother. Wouldn't hurt a fly, well except the ones he pulled the wings off. We just don't know why he did it." 

[Chomper Higgot]

4 hours ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

Doesn't take loosing lying down!

Goes out and commits felonies and, just to show how dumb and twisted he is, engages in conspiracy with others to commit felonies.

 

Lock him up with all the other ‘….Soap Keepers’ 

[Scott]

This guy has a rather impressive criminal record, including this:

The Albuquerque Journal reported in July that, if Mr. Peña were to win his State House race, he could be blocked from taking office because of a criminal record that included burglary and larceny convictions. The Journal reported that Mr. Peña had served nearly seven years in prison after a 2008 conviction for stealing from big box stores.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/us/albuquerque-democrat-officials-shootings-arrest.html

[Chomper Higgot]

2 minutes ago, Scott said:

This guy has a rather impressive criminal record, including this:

The Albuquerque Journal reported in July that, if Mr. Peña were to win his State House race, he could be blocked from taking office because of a criminal record that included burglary and larceny convictions. The Journal reported that Mr. Peña had served nearly seven years in prison after a 2008 conviction for stealing from big box stores.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/us/albuquerque-democrat-officials-shootings-arrest.html

All the best people.

[ozimoron]

5 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

All the best people.

The GOP appear to have an aversion to background checking in their headlong rush to grab power at any cost and by any means possible.

 

Christian nationalists think all will be great again once they’ve done away with liberalism—ignoring the centuries of horrific violence that led the West there in the first place.

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/anti-liberalism-in-us-will-only-lead-to-violence?ref=scroll

Edited January 17, 2023 by ozimoron

[bendejo]

Ironic thing is this guy looks like the gang boss that was revealed in the fictional US television show "Law & Order SVU" last week. 

 

He really thought he could do these things without it leading back to himself?  It's as crazy as DT's idea to nuke N. Korea and then deny it. 

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-suggested-nuking-north-korea-and-blaming-someone-else-book-2023-1?op=1

I don't know who did it, could have been Montenegro.

 

But sometimes it is just screwball comedy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/17/wyoming-ban-electric-vehicles-cars-2035/

 

 

[Tug]

8 hours ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

Doesn't take loosing lying down!

Oh but you are mistaken he will I assure you in prison he certainly will lmao ???? 

[cncltd1973]

18 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Still much less embarrassing than Santos 

And Rick Scott. White collar criminals that found their new home

[ozimoron]

Peña's alleged plot is the latest manifestation of a deeper and expanding malady affecting Republicans nationwide: A refusal to accept that their political views are simply unpopular. When faced with proof that they and their ideas are being rejected, rather than reform or at least try to recast their ideas, Republicans often turn to conspiracy theories about sinister forces working against them.

 

Blame is instead put on "woke" educators or Hollywood manipulators "brainwashing" the masses.

 

https://www.rawstory.com/solomoin-pena/

[placeholder]

I heard that the NRA also condemned the actual shooters on the grounds of bad marksmanship...

 

OK, I confess. I made that up.