{"id":54936,"date":"2022-09-17T02:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=54936"},"modified":"2022-09-17T02:22:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T06:22:05","slug":"dr-cindy-banyai-addresses-byron-donalds-vicious-attacks-on-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/09\/dr-cindy-banyai-addresses-byron-donalds-vicious-attacks-on-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Cindy Banyai addresses Byron Donalds\u2019 vicious attacks on Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Written by Dr. Cindy Banyai<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/banyai-e1600889073149.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54937\"\/><figcaption>Dr. Cindy Banyai<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Democratic Congressional Candidate in Southwest Florida, Dr. Cindy Banyai, was made aware of recent events between Byron Donalds and his political rivals in Collier County. Several videos showing a scuffle between Donalds\u2019 Senior Advisor, Larry Wilcoxson, and other members of the Collier County Republican Party have surfaced. Mr. Wilcoxson seemed to be shouting at members of the meeting and needed to be physically restrained by local law enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is astonishing to see our Congressman and his staff acting in such an aggressive and unprofessional manner.\u201d Dr. Banyai states. \u201cThis is not wholly unexpected though. When you elect criminals, they hire their criminal friends, and engage in criminal behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Banyai is referring to Byron Donalds\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news-press.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2020\/08\/10\/ethics-complaint-alleges-byron-donalds-lied-criminal-charges-donalds-says-complainer-lied\/5544174002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">criminal past<\/a>, including felonies for fraud and drugs, as well as the criminal allegations against <a href=\"http:\/\/swflorida.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/unbelievable-past-of-hendry-clerk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Larry Wilcoxson<\/a> including child molestation, assault and battery, and grand theft auto, and the fatal highway accident that <a href=\"https:\/\/floridapolitics.com\/archives\/306879-naples-woman-killed-in-fatal-crash-with-house-candidate-jesse-purdon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jesse Purdon<\/a> was involved in shortly after he was seen at a Republican function where alcohol was served.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/210610-byron-donalds-jm-1325.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54938\"\/><figcaption>Byron Donalds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In a separate video recently made public, Byron Donalds is seen again with Mr. Wilcoxson and Jesse Purdon from his local staff office. In the video, Donalds is seen shouting at a solo woman as he and his team have her cornered in a store. It is believed the woman in the video is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/2022\/08\/30\/charter-school-board-members-file-lawsuit-claiming-abuse-of-power-at-collier-county-charter-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kelly Lichter<\/a> who has an ongoing lawsuit against Donalds\u2019 wife, Erika, for alleged abuse of power at a charter school in Collier County. Donalds can be heard shouting at the woman \u201cJust drop the lawsuit, Kelly!\u201d among other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cByron Donalds and his goon squad cornering and intimidating people in our community is appalling. This behavior is not only unbecoming of the office, but could be criminal. I encourage our local law enforcement to take a serious look into these events. The House Ethics Committee should also be alerted. I\u2019d say Congressman Donalds should resign, but I think that would interfere with his current power grab.\u201d Dr. Banyai continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Dr. Cindy Banyai Democratic Congressional Candidate in Southwest Florida, Dr. Cindy Banyai, was made aware of recent events between Byron Donalds and his political rivals in Collier County.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":54937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1646],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54939,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54936\/revisions\/54939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}