There's a new report out of a Florida newspaper, uh, the Daytona Beach News Journal that alleges
that a Republican state senator here in Florida, man by the name of Tom Wright, Republican
State Senator Tom Wright, has allegedly been banned from a women's shelter for domestic
violence victims because of what the person who ran the shelter described as flirty and
possibly grooming behavior by this Republican state Senator, let me read you this. This
is Daytona Beach News Journal as reported by Raw story because the Daytona Beach News
Journal has a paywall. Uh, but anyway, the Daytona Beach News Journal reports that former
Beacon Center, c e o Angie Pi, alleged that she quote, put a stop to write coming on the
property because of his flirty or grooming type of behavior. PI told the news journal,
he got really angry according to the news journal, that propensity for anger was on
full display on September 2nd when Wright got into a videotaped confrontation with the
shelter's interim c e o, and was given a trespass warning from Daytona Beach Police, barring
him from the Beacon Center Pi, who resigned as c e O on August 31st.
And others say, Wright has made allegations about trafficking, prostitution and drug go
drug use going on at the center. The publication adds that during a, uh, state senate committee
hearing Wright accused PI's husband of having a conflict of interest regarding the shelter,
all of those claims were false. They said, so you've got a Republican state senator who
says, I think bad things are happening at this women's shelter and, and this woman who's
running it, her husband, he's got some conflicts of interest, whatever that means. Um, and,
and as far as I've seen, they've produced no evidence of any conflicts of interest,
but she did resign. Uh, you know, so we don't know what that's about, possibly due to the
fact that, you know, there's too much publicity coming onto this battered women's shelter
because of what this lawmaker is accusing, and she just wanted to step away and let somebody
else handle it so that her presence was no longer, you know, an issue. That, that's what
I'm assuming. I don't know that for certain, uh, but that kind of seems likely if that's
what is happening. But this man, like, like I said, the police told him like, you're not
allowed to come here anymore. And the c e o says he was engaging in flirty and grooming
like behavior to battered women because he totally thinks like, Hey, there's, there's
some weird, there may be some prostitution. If you honest to God think that this women's
shelter is somehow a front for prostitution,
Why are you walking in there being flirty with the women? I mean, that's not what you
do if you're actually legitimately investigating it. That's what you do if you're trying to
get a feel for whether or not this is gonna go your way. I mean, that's creepy as hell.
Making these allegations against this sinner to begin with is creepy as hell. Now again,
uh, he, he denies obviously that he engaged in this kind of behavior, and of course there
is the videotape of him getting angry when being told that he is trespassing at this
point. But so far, none of the allegations against this center, uh, have been proven
to be true. So we'll wait and see, you know, if it turns out that maybe this guy was right
and he did uncover a big, you know, trafficking ring, or, you know, drug traffic, whatever
it is, if he uncovered it, great, wonderful.
Good, I'll, I'll, I'll do a video praising you at that point. But what this interim c
e o said about this guy is pretty serious as well. And if that is of course, the kind
of behavior that he engaged in, then this is the kind of person that maybe the Republican
Party of Florida that claims to be taken on the groomers. Maybe y'all ought to look at
this guy a little bit more closely and see if these allegations are in fact true. Maybe
bring some of the women from the shelter to Congress to testify. Maybe send a delegation
down there. If these women don't want to go in public and find out what the hell is happening,
are they in further danger of being trafficked by this group? Or is this just retaliation
from a Republican congressman who's now mad that he's not allowed to go in there and flirt
with women? The people at that shelter would know the truth. There's security camera footage
that would probably reveal the truth as well. So maybe the Republicans in Florida, if y'all
really want to get serious about these issues you claim to care about so much, maybe head
on down there and get yourself some answers. Because either way, you're gonna root out
a scumbag. We're just trying to wait and see which one the scumbag is.