Tolland BOE Candidate & The Curious Timing Of A Video Release

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Republican candidate in Tolland for the Board of ed who
like chased a dude home and the Republicans are standing
by her. I want to get your thoughts on this.
Some of your thoughts. It's very interesting. So a twenty
one year old she followed him home and gave him
what for in his garage because the fact of the

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matter is she was in the car with her daughter,
her sixteen year old who is learning to drive, and
I'm under the impression, you know, was driving. This kid
got a little frustrated with how slow she was going.
Some bob and some weaving a kid, and this kid
not only screeched by them, he threw a bird. He

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threw a bird at the sixteen year old girl. So
she Karen Dowt, I don't know, is it a Karen,
the leader of the local Republicans say, you got your
video footage, you got your tape. It's damning footage. But
we have no interest in asking her to drive out
of the race. She's a protective mother teaching her kid

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how to drive. She storms into Jacob Hickey's garage, strikes
his car window with her hand, and the cursing begins.
There's nothing like a mom teaching a kid how to drive.
For a few f bombs to start being let she
did threaten to harm him. She said that was a

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dangerous move. I got a kid learning how to drive,
never mind the middle finger. This happened a while back,
but he's now twenty two released the video this week,
and this is where it gets interesting, because he realized
that this woman was running for the Board of Ed
in next month's election. He's like, and I feel like
she shouldn't be. She later called the police, she did,

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who didn't file a report or arrest anyone. In an
interview the end of last week, she acknowledged, okay, I
overreact acted. He tailgated us. He was inches from our
rear bumper and then passed us in a way that
I felt endangered me and my daughter who was learning
how to drive. He the then twenty one, now he's

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twenty two, denies all these allegations now in a statement
posted on Facebook the taland Democratic Town committees, they say,
we're deeply troubled to learn of this incident that was
captured on video, and we're embarrassed. A Republican candidate for
the Board of Ed trespassed and threatened a young resident.

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Behavior's unacceptable under any circumstances, and especially alarming from someone
seeking to govern our schools. The Republican town chair says,
I don't condone this kind of behavior behavior, but doesn't
mean I'm going to ask her to drop out of
the school board race. Look when this story got sent
to me, I was ready to rip into this lady another.

(02:56):
I'm totally with her. I am just being honest. I'm
totally with her the road rage because twenty one clearly
getting frustrated tailgating a sixteen. Protective of my kids too,
that probably set the kid back a while as far
as driving is concerned. Like, is this how people are
on the road? Unfortunately, yes, and you have a whole

(03:19):
lot more to contend with than just that. But you
know what really smells to me is I've had this
video for close to a year. That's how long. I'm
going to release it in October right before and now
get a load of this. And he's a registered Republican, Okay,
she's running Republican. His stepmother, Amanda Hickey, is a Democrat

(03:43):
running for re election to the Planning and Zoning Commission.
Tell me that doesn't reek a little bit. I think
that reeks a little bit. Yeah, he's ultimately got no
skin in any game as far as the Boord of
It is concerned and planning and zoning, but went stepped
when Dad's new wife is a DEM and this could

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hurt the Republican ticket. Well, isn't that timing just perfect