Since Rep. Matt Shea won't return our phone calls, emails, messages passed through friends and even let us follow him on Twitter, we took to Facebook to ask the Spokane Valley state legislator a question.
Why? Because Shea, who pulled a gun on another motorist in a road rage incident, posted what he calls a sworn affidavit on his Facebook page from a witness to that night. In a sworn affidavit, the alleged witness says:
Rep. Shea maintained a calm demeanor through the incident. The driver swerving across 4 lanes of traffic toward the front of Mr. Shea's truck was clearly unprovoked. Mr. Norris then stopped in front of Mr. Shea's truck. It was only then that Mr. Shea pulled the gun out of his glove box and set it on the seat. To be honest, I would have done the same thing if I were him, particularly in light of the multiple death threats and harassment I personally know his family experienced over the last several years.
If it's true, we'd like to see it, since this affidavit isn't in our copy of the police report from the incident.
Unfortunately, Rep. Shea is not a sharing-and-caring kind of guy. Since he'd blocked reporter Daniel Walters from commenting on his Facebook page, I posted myself asking about the affidavit, which you can see above.
But, like a cropped Soviet propaganda photo, Shea deleted our post and questions. Check his Facebook page and see for yourself.
Shea also blocked me from commenting again. But really, does that surprise you?
I´ve posted a similar comment on SR.com and seeing how there is not much of a difference at the inlander. I´ll just regurgitate the comment. Kind of like you did with story.
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“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see the slant, it’s politics and media. You certainly don’t have to be a supporter of either canidate to see that SR disproportionately reports in favor of one canidate over the other. I’m not a supporter of either at this point.
However running a quick search of SR.com of both names Amy Biviano and Matt Shea you can come to the conclusion yourself that fair and unbiased reporting from SR is about as accurate as with FOX news. I’ve found no critictism of Biviano from SR stories (if you find one please point it out), only when it comes to Shea do they pull punches.
In her latest smear, I think that Biviano stooped to a whole new low. She is not taking to the issues only turning the issues into a circus - this attack in and of itself makes me sway to Shea.”
Sep 25, 2012 | Reply to this comment
Besides: a politician lying about a sworn affidavit is so totally not related to how a politician will/won´t lie the rest of my time, right? Sep 25, 2012 | Reply to this comment
I call bullshit. You were already in his camp.
What this is, is part of Matt´s continuing effort to throw enough out there and raise some doubt in the McCaslin/Padden/Not-batshit-Insane wing of the party so that people go, "Eh, maybe?" and vote for him. The very fact that he has to try to win back Republicans speaks volumes. Sep 25, 2012 | Reply to this comment