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Texas man is arrested for ‘punching poll worker who told him to remove his MAGA hat’

A man in Texas who wore a MAGA hat to a 2024 presidential election early voting location was arrested after he punched an election worker who asked him to remove the hat.

Jesse Lutzenberger, 63, was arrested Thursday and has been charged with injury to an elderly person, according to an incident report from the Bexar County Sheriff's Office.

According to Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar, Lutzenberger initially complied with a request made by the 69-year-old early voting worker. The worker advised him that wearing political apparel to a voting location is illegal under Texas law, ABC News reports.

Once he had finished voting, Lutzenberger put his hat back on, but was allegedly lingering inside the voting building. The worker again let him know that it was "unacceptable" and tried to escort him from the building.

Once the pair were near the doors of the voting location, Lutzenberger allegedly threw "an arm back toward the victim," according to Salazar. The sheriff said the incident was captured on a surveillance video.

"The victim seemed to push off of the suspect. At that point, the suspect then turned and threw several punches right at the face of the victim." the sheriff said.

Salazar said the election worker had "marks on his face" but was otherwise unharmed.

Lutzenberger was arrested and has been charged with a third-degree felony. He is being held in jail on $30,000 bond.

Salazar said an investigation will determine if Lutzenberger can be charged with assaulting an election worker.

Twenty-one states prohibit the wearing of political or campaign apparel in or immediately around voting locations, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Salazar noted that there had been other minor incidents at polling locations since early voting began, and warned voters not to let their emotions and political views land them in prison.

"Look, nothing here is worth getting hurt for going to jail for. This election is going to happen one way or another. One side is going to win, one side is going to lose. That's just the nature of things," he said. "But there's no sense picking up a criminal case, picking up a criminal history — or injuring or even killing somebody in the name of politics. It just doesn't make any sense."

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by Anonymousreply 44October 29, 2024 1:45 AM

Next these MAGA people will begun shooting poll workers.

by Anonymousreply 1October 27, 2024 5:14 PM

This is why we can never have anything nice!

by Anonymousreply 2October 27, 2024 5:17 PM

He's so proud of himself. I'm calling it now: tinymeat.

by Anonymousreply 3October 27, 2024 5:19 PM

Glad they’re prosecuting him as fully as they can. Texas being Texas, you never know or trust if that’ll happen when the perp is a Trumper.

by Anonymousreply 4October 27, 2024 5:27 PM

I wear a MADA hat because I am always constipated

MADA

Make America Defecate Again

by Anonymousreply 5October 27, 2024 5:29 PM

I wear my Harris Walz shirt to Walmart when I have to go there (The only place that sells my coffee I buy). Last time I got approached my a Trump loving MAGAT. I let them spew and he looked at me and said "well??" I said, look man, you came over to me, I didn't ask t have a conversation and I don't care what you think can you just go back to buying your beer and diddling your cousin then walked away.

by Anonymousreply 6October 27, 2024 5:33 PM

We need to pass some laws protecting election workers. I propose the death penalty for striking a volunteer poll worker.

by Anonymousreply 7October 27, 2024 6:07 PM

This guy could very well be my cousin. It's all machismo and cases of beer every night. Deployable.

by Anonymousreply 8October 27, 2024 6:08 PM

[quote]We need to pass some laws protecting election workers. I propose the death penalty for striking a volunteer poll worker.

I'll settle for a mandatory sentence and a lifetime garnishment of wages -- including Social Security. That would quickly put an end to such nonsense.

by Anonymousreply 9October 27, 2024 6:14 PM

I don't understand Latinos going in hard for Trump - particularly in Texas.

Perhaps his dad was German - but his mom was Mexican - and he would be subject to pull-over by police under suspicion of being an illegal, if the Republicans could get their way.

by Anonymousreply 10October 27, 2024 6:18 PM

I have a friend who works the polls and is very concerned about her safety. She’s mentioned previous assholes who’ve come in and disturbed others; they’ve had to call the police. She and other poll workers tend to be retired old ladies who are not equipped to deal with stupid big men being bullies.

by Anonymousreply 11October 27, 2024 6:20 PM

Another case of election interference if i have ever seen it. He should be disqualified from voting.

by Anonymousreply 12October 27, 2024 6:27 PM

This is why Texas is (still) a shithole

by Anonymousreply 13October 27, 2024 6:27 PM

[quote]We need to pass some laws protecting election workers. I propose the death penalty for striking a volunteer poll worker.

Poll workers may be "volunteers" in the sense that they volunteer to take the job, but where I live anyway, they're definitely compensated for their work.

by Anonymousreply 14October 27, 2024 7:33 PM

r1 and much worse will be happening the next week, I bet. MAGAT trash

by Anonymousreply 15October 27, 2024 7:36 PM

Flyover men in their 50s and 60s are the absolute shit right now

by Anonymousreply 16October 27, 2024 7:43 PM

It’s a federal election, so I wonder if there will be federal charges?

I mean, there SHOULD be. Then this prick never gets to vote again and if he gets picked up with a gun, it’s automatic prison.

That’s what needs to happen to these cunts. Prison, loss of job, loss of voting rights. They can go stew in the Big House for a decade.

In Ohio, poll workers have to be both parties paired up and do shit like this together. The old lady that prick punched may very well have been a fellow trumptard.

Goddamned pricks.

by Anonymousreply 17October 27, 2024 7:46 PM

Is he what you call Generation Jones? They're the worst.

by Anonymousreply 18October 27, 2024 7:55 PM

I don't understand Latinos going in hard for Trump - particularly in Texas.

I thought we went thru this before, Florida and Texas Latinos vote for trump, the rest of the Latinos don't.

Texas Latinos are heavily evangelical, they got them saved from the pope haha, here in in this part of Louisiana which is just like Texas, the churches Latinos attend are evangelical, it seems the Catholic Churches have a lot of whites, old Italian people, Filipinos etc.

by Anonymousreply 19October 27, 2024 7:59 PM

What do you mean Republicans always politicize everything?

by Anonymousreply 20October 27, 2024 8:05 PM

It's hilarious watching these so called men in their 50s and 60s acting like they're big bad alpha tough guys still. THey better watch out. They might break a bone.

by Anonymousreply 21October 27, 2024 8:28 PM

Gen X is the reason Trump is even competitive in this election.

by Anonymousreply 22October 27, 2024 8:34 PM

How much you wanna bet he was drunk? During the pandemic I noticed people acting more belligerently just out and about on errands and it struck me that day drinking was likely involved.

His family may have come over from Mexico with that surname. There was significant German migration to Mexico in the 1800s. A lot of German surmanes were hispanicized (Bergman --> Burgos) while others kept theirs. I had an ESL student who was Mexican and had difficult German last name. I can't remember it, but it would have hard to make Spanish sounding.

by Anonymousreply 23October 27, 2024 8:39 PM

R16, I live amongst these folks. It's machismo-fueled drinking and being concerned of what others think of you and being afraid to forge your own journey. It's sad.

by Anonymousreply 24October 27, 2024 11:32 PM

Trump and his MAGAT cult refer to Mexicans as sub-human, and yet so many Mexican Americans still vote for him.

What can you do to fight that kind of willful stupidity?

Nothing, really.

by Anonymousreply 25October 28, 2024 2:10 PM

R19

However, the border counties often vote blue.

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by Anonymousreply 26October 28, 2024 2:26 PM

Newest dump poster child.

by Anonymousreply 27October 28, 2024 2:40 PM

fucking animal

by Anonymousreply 28October 28, 2024 2:42 PM

Lutzenberger looks Mexican-what’s that about? Standing up for his master???

by Anonymousreply 29October 28, 2024 2:45 PM

Mustn't forget this bitch who was told to remove her MAGA shirt inside the voting area so she flopped her nasty old saggy flat titties out and told poll workers to "suck her cunt".

JD Vance - the man running for VP, called her a PATRIOT.

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by Anonymousreply 30October 28, 2024 2:58 PM

"Suck my cunt!"

by Anonymousreply 31October 28, 2024 2:59 PM

I haven't looked at Lutzenberger's photo, so I don't know whether he looks Mexican. I can tell you that in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, Catholic German immigrants sometimes married Catholic Mexicans or Mexican-Americans (please, see Linda Ronstadt). In NYC you'd similarly find German-Irish and Irish-Italian marriages. In Louisiana you sometimes hear of Cajun-Irish or Cajun-Italian marriages. In Texas, anyway, Olga Hernandez or Oscar Rodriguez would not seem like strange names.

by Anonymousreply 32October 28, 2024 9:03 PM

R31 - she actually said suck my cock - seriously.

by Anonymousreply 33October 28, 2024 10:43 PM

[QUOTE]I haven't looked at Lutzenberger's photo, so I don't know whether he looks Mexican

It's in the OP's preview and he looks 100% Mexican.

by Anonymousreply 34October 28, 2024 10:57 PM

This guy is definitely Mexican.

Unbelievable how he drank the Trump Kool-Aid.

Even though Trump hates him and his kind.

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by Anonymousreply 35October 28, 2024 11:05 PM

You see why I want that wall?

by Anonymousreply 36October 28, 2024 11:17 PM

You see why I want that wall?

by Anonymousreply 37October 28, 2024 11:17 PM

This is yet another example of MAGAts thinking the rules don't apply to them.

by Anonymousreply 38October 28, 2024 11:27 PM

Looks like a Mexican to me. Did they check his ID? The MAGA hat might have been a clever disguise.

by Anonymousreply 39October 28, 2024 11:30 PM

I bet he’s one of them illegals!

by Anonymousreply 40October 28, 2024 11:31 PM

He sure looks like he knows his way around a plate of beans!

by Anonymousreply 41October 28, 2024 11:32 PM

This is what we can look forward to if Trump is elected, MAGAs going around punching anyone they disagree with. Doesn't matter what the law says they think they are exempt.

by Anonymousreply 42October 28, 2024 11:34 PM

It’s unlikely they’d suddenly become normal if were to lose. Unfortunately we will probably never find out at this point.

by Anonymousreply 43October 28, 2024 11:43 PM

R6 What brand of coffee? Asking because I’m always interested in an inexpensive good quality brand.

by Anonymousreply 44October 29, 2024 1:45 AM
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