Idaho GOP Leader Arrested For Aggravated Assault

Challis McAffee, the GOP party chair from Garden City, Idaho, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. McAffee, a contractor with Wells Fargo, was taking pictures of a house where the mortage was past due and wound up in a confrontation where he pointed a gun at the homeowner.

McAffee, a backer of libertarian-leaning former GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul and an activist in this year’s anti-big-government “Tea Party” protests, helped organize Paul backers who aligned at last June’s Idaho State Republican Convention in Sandpoint with other foes of then-state GOP Chairman Kirk Sullivan. Sullivan was voted from office in favor of Norm Semanko.

According to police in the Boise suburb of Meridian, resident Robert Lutes called officers just before 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to report McAffee had pointed a .357 Magnum handgun at him during a verbal confrontation. McAffee acknowledged he pointed the gun at Lutes, according to the police account.

I’m unarmed, I’m an old man,” Lutes, 51, told The Associated Press on Thursday. “I’m trying to find out why he’s taking pictures of my house. I said, ‘Knock on my door, let me know what you want.’ Then, I think he’s reaching for his business card and he pulls out a concealed weapon and I think he’s going to blow my head off.”

Where did McAffee think he was, a town hall meeting?

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.