Meanwhile, in the U.S. Virgin Islands Republican Party:
The Republican Territorial Committee held a joint meeting Saturday at a gun range in St. Croix, but the meeting erupted into chaos with attendees shouting over one another, calling for points of order, and at one point, Gwen Brady, an elected delegate, being allegedly shoved to the ground, according to the Virgin Islands Daily News. [...]
Virgin Islands Republican Party Vice Chairman Herb Schoenbohm told the paper that Brady was “slammed against the wall and thrown to the floor because she objected to the Gestapo-like tactics of the V.I. Chairman John Canegata.”
Police were called, a police report filed, people called other people the Gestapo and so forth. You'd think Republicans in the Virgin Islands would be a considerably more laid-back bunch than their mainland counterparts, if for no other reason than the decent weather—but nope. Maybe the first sign things were amiss was the decision to have their important and hotly contested political meeting at a gun range.
Schoenbohm also blasted the location of the meeting, telling the paper that Canegata was "banging the table with a large ammunition cartridge being used as a gavel" and walking around with a "firearm on his belt."
"People are not used to a Republican meeting being in a combat zone and will avoid future meetings if something isn’t done about his lack of control," Schoenbohm continued.
Now, now. In Texas Republicans would get offended if you didn't use an ammunition cartridge as gavel.
At stake here are six of the nine delegates the Virgin Islands will be sending to the Republican convention in Cleveland. The chairman has declared the previously elected slate to be ineligible because reasons and chose a different slate; the gun range meeting was an attempt to—oh, hell, does it really matter?
Drama, drama everywhere. This is going to be the bestest convention ever.