Assemblyman David Gantt — “Before You Arrest Me, I Need to Go to the Bathroom”
If you actually needed any additional proof that Assemblyman David Gantt had every intention of provoking his own arrest at the county legislature meeting yesterday, all you need to do is read today’s D&C article.
An excerpt from the D&C article:
Prior to the arrests, a Rochester police officer asked Gantt, Florence and Scott to meet privately with law enforcement and they left the room together. Majority Leader Dan Quatro, R-Webster, said the men asked to use the restroom before returning to be handcuffed by sheriff’s deputies and be led out to applause from the crowd.
So, Gantt and his select team of fellow soon-to-be-arrestees forgot one very important aspect of disruptive political protesting.
Make sure you’ve gone to the bathroom first.
I can’t remember how many times I needed to tell my own kids this before we got on the road for a long drive. Someone in the group should have asked, “Does anyone need to use the potty before we go protest the county legislature meeting? Especially you guys who are going to try to get arrested. You better go first because you don’t known when they’re gonna let you use the bathroom in jail.”
Well, just like a stubborn child, New York State Assemblyman David Gantt refused to go and now they were faced with a dilemma. He realized that now he really had to, but if he left the chambers to do so, how could he then get back in so he could be arrested in the chambers so he could be paraded out through the cheering crown of fellow protesters?
I wonder if there’s a chapter in Rules For Radicals explaining how to handle situations like this?
Well, it just goes to show that being a state elected official does garner you some pull with the police. Gantt and the arrestee team were able to negotiate bathroom usage and then allowed back in the chambers for the spectacle arrest.
I can sympathize with David and the team. I’m not that far off myself from having to go every half hour or so. Getting older can get in the way of important stuff in life like staging arrests when you don’t get your way.
Maybe County Executive Maggie Brooks and her people should have staged a protest in Gantt’s Albany office in order to get him to meet with her to discuss how he could help us here back at home.
I wonder if David would have let any of them use his bathroom first before the police arrived?
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From my experience Mr. P, I’ve made sure to always tinkle before I make a fool of myself in front of dozens of people and newscrews. You never know when an accident can happen. But seriously, it just goes to show the he and his cohorts conciously chose to break the law.
You’re absolutely right Lemon. While amusing, this whole thing about having to use the bathroom almost ruining the staged arrests just proves what we the community already knew.
Great comments!
Just a bunch of has beens trying to go back to the 60’s. Days when they had a real cause. Their behavior was pathetic and that’s they came off.
I don’t think anyone bought it.
I think you’ve put it very well outsider. Back in the 60’s, a cause was fought because people (right or wrong, good or bad) believed they were doing the right thing for the right reasons.
Very few, if any, truly believe in Gantt’s “cause.” Especially when it’s obvious that the reason Gantt is doing this is because HE really wants to control the process to put his own person in. You can’t rally people to your cause when your cause is basically an operation in extreme selfish arrogance.
Again, thanks for the input outsider. Welcome and we look forward to reading more of your thoughts on important topics like this.