A woman was arrested in Florida over the weekend for allegedly attacking Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) at an event that the congressman was attending with his wife.
The Walton County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the report in a statement on Tuesday afternoon, saying that officers “responded to an incident at an event in Miramar Beach Saturday involving Representative Matt Gaetz.”
“A 41-year-old Tallahassee woman, Selena Chambers, was arrested after it was found she intentionally threw a glass of wine at Representative Gaetz after shouting obscenities at him,” police said. “She was charged with battery on an elected official and issued a $1,000 bond. She was released the following day.”
Gaetz said in a statement that Chambers is a “registered Democrat and self-described member of the ‘Resistance.’”
Gaetz later released a lengthy video statement saying that it was festival season right now in Northwest Florida, which he described as centering around seafood, art, culture, and wine.
“This past Saturday, my wife Ginger and I attended the South Walton Beaches Wine & Food Festival at Grand Boulevard in Sandestin in Walton County, Florida, and we were enjoying catching up with new friends and old, and folks recognized me and so we were taking pictures and having polite conversations,” he said. “And as I was chatting with one gentleman, a lady threw a drink on the both of us, and she was promptly arrested.”
Gaetz said that the suspect was a “left-wing author,” who he said was “very obsessed with Donald Trump.”
“And she began, engaged in something called resistance expression,” he said. “And I’m quoting directly from one of our works here, ‘resistance is expression that can take a physical form.’ She’s also a donor to the Joe Biden presidential campaign, as she talked about her emotional turmoil following the 2016 election, and just going through some of the stuff she’s written, it is really bizarre.”
“She writes about feminist surrealism, and I had to review what what that entailed,” he added. “And she says that women need a surrealist survivor kit. And it needs to include psychoanalysis, mythology, memoirs, Sadeianism, there’s connections to Wiccan life in some of this, so, very strange.”

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