October 21, 2014      10:16 AM
Houston GOP House campaign worker accused of swinging box cutter at Democratic staffer
Accusation of Republican Texas House candidate being a “communist sympathizer” leads to a melee in Alief
Here at Buzz
Central in Austin, we’ve been hearing rumblings out of Southeast Texas
for a few weeks that race for the Texas House seat held by Rep. Hubert Vo, D-Houston, is getting nasty.
The challenge from Republican Al Hoang,
a former Houston councilman, is the first time people in the district have a
choice between two Vietnamese candidates.
Now, we get this
news via KTRK Television:
“A fight over a campaign
display outside an early voting location led to one arrest. Representatives
from both Hubert Vo and Al Hoang's campaign were at
the Alief Library early voting
location off 7979 S Kirkwood Road. Police say someone in Vo's
camp then put up a banner accusing Hoang of being a communist sympathizer.
Police say someone in
Hoang's campaign then pulled out a box cutter and started cutting up the
banner. That man, identified as Peter Vo, 58, is accused of then swinging the box cutter at a
Vo representative who tried to stop him. Peter Vo now faces charges of
aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.”
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