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Afternoon Links: Tribe’s Streak Continues, and Rupert Tarsey’s Silver Hammer

By Jim Swift

We’re going to 20! My Cleveland Indians are red hot right now, having won 15 games in a row. Impressively, the Indians also won 14 straight last season. An Ohio roofing and window company celebrating its 15th anniversary thought it’d be a fun contest to offer customers a 100 percent refund on work done in July if the Indians won 15 consecutive games at any point this year. The damage? Nearly $2 million.

Some people really made out, as ESPN reports: “I never believed it was going to happen, so I only started paying attention yesterday,” said Lorianne Sevic, who with her husband Dan paid the company to do $34,000 worth of windows, siding, doors and gutters in July that they will now get for free.” Here’s the beautiful part: Universal Windows Direct paid only $75,000 for the insurance policy that will cover the $1.7 million. The Tribe is having a great season, so expect more Tribe coverage in this space. Here’s a web gem for you: Cy Young contender Corey Kluber is basically throwing Wiffleballs. The Diamondbacks also have an impressive streak going, and swept the vaunted Dodgers. The Tribe, on this streak, won back-to-back double headers. That’s four games in 48 hours. Nuts!

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Chamber of Commerce v. Massey. The Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce has some ‘splaining to do. The group’s Twitter account called their Congressman, Rep. Thomas Massie, a “piece of sh*t” for being one of the few House members to vote against hurricane relief. Whoops! Massie, one of the House’s few hardcore libertarians took it in good humor, suggesting they were referring to the legislation: “Well, I’m not crazy about the bill either, but I don’t know if I would call it that.” The chamber apologized and an investigation is underway, but just another example in the growing list of folks who have ruined their careers in one click of the button.

Rupert Tarsey’s Silver Hammer. A strange story of political intrigue in Mar-a-Lago’s backyard on the eve of Hurricane Irma. The Broward County GOP’s newly elected secretary, Rupert Tarsey, has a dark past, and party leaders aren’t happy, because his name really isn’t Rupert Tarsey, it’s Rupert Ditsworth. Why the name change? The Miami Herald reported Thursday why: “The Broward County Republicans are in turmoil today after revelations that a freshly elected member of their executive board is a man who once was charged with attempted murder in the savage claw-hammer beating of a then-classmate at a Los Angeles prep school for multi-millionaires’ children.”

Here’s the LA Times on the incident back in 2007:

The girl said she was invited to drive with the suspect [Ditsworth] to a Jamba Juice near campus after they had finished taking an Advanced Placement exam. The two sipped smoothies and talked casually. Once they were back in the car, he reached into the back seat for a backpack, which he placed between his legs. Instead of returning to campus, however, the boy detoured to a quiet residential street. She said he appeared anxious, and she became increasingly alarmed. He told her that he was thinking of committing suicide. She urged that they return to school to get help from a counselor. He told her: “It isn’t going to happen that way.” He also said that he was going to kill himself and that he wasn’t going to do it alone. She reached for the backpack, believing that he had a gun inside, but he pulled out a claw hammer instead and began striking her on the head and face. She used her arms and hands to try to cover herself while fending off the blows. With her legs, she pinned him to the driver’s side door. A witness who was walking on the street with a neighbor said, “Arms were flying. It looked bad. We couldn’t believe it.” As police were called, the boy got out of the car, went to the passenger side, pulled the girl from the car by her hair and continued the assault until the hammer broke. He then began to choke her. To save her life, she bit his finger. He screamed and said “I’m done.” He also said that he was going to kill himself and that he wasn’t going to do it alone. She reached for the backpack, believing that he had a gun inside, but he pulled out a claw hammer instead and began striking her on the head and face. She used her arms and hands to try to cover herself while fending off the blows. With her legs, she pinned him to the driver’s side door. A witness who was walking on the street with a neighbor said, “Arms were flying. It looked bad. We couldn’t believe it.” As police were called, the boy got out of the car, went to the passenger side, pulled the girl from the car by her hair and continued the assault until the hammer broke. He then began to choke her. To save her life, she bit his finger. He screamed and said “I’m done.”

Yikes. Do people change that dramatically in ten years? Let’s ask Rupert:

“Why should I resign,” he asked in an exclusive interview from his $2 million beachfront condo. “I did nothing wrong and I was elected. This is just party politics.”

Come again?

“In the end, I pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor,” Tarsey said. “It’s not the charges that matter, it’s what happens in court.” Tarsey, 6 feet 2 inches tall, claimed self-defense. “This whole thing is in retaliation for my speaking out against Bob [Sutton],” Tarsey said. “It’s politics.”

The party has suspended Tarsey from its events. Good.

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