CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE GOES UNHINGED

What do you do with someone who is having a serious medical breakdown that is trying to run for office at the same time?  Ignore them?  Or call it out in hopes they get professional help before something bad happens?  I'm trying the latter here because some of the recent behavior from Shaun Broy makes it appear that something is seriously wrong.

Shaun Broy was the Democratic candidate against Jill Holtzman Vogel in 2011.  He didn't have much of a campaign, and to be honest I never heard of him while he was running.  I heard of him after the campaign when he was challenging some Democratic elected officials in his area for violating the party plan by not supporting his campaign.  To her credit, Kristin Cabral gave him a job on her campaign for Congress trying to pull Shaun back into the mainstream of the party.

But once the 2012 campaign was over, Shaun seemed to become completely unhinged.  He immediately announced another run for Senate against Vogel, then scrapped that after a few days to begin floating himself a an Independent campaign of Shaun Broy for Lt. Governor this year.  That also lasted a few days before Shaun announced that he was still a Democrat and would be running this year for the House of Delegates against Bev Sherwood.  Again, that only lasted a few days before Shaun announced he would run against Frank Wolf next year for Congress as a Democrat.

Meanwhile, while all these bizarre announcements have been hitting, Shaun was attempting a coup of his local Democratic Committee.  He even declared himself the Chairman of a group that already had a Chair and called a meeting as Chair.  Needless to say the efforts of Shaun to declare Shaun the Chairman were rejected when the local Congressional District Chair Charlie Jackson got involved.

While Shaun has announced or toyed with four different bids for office in the last two months and launched a failed coup attempt on his local party his social media accounts have also spun totally out of control. The postings have taken on the look of a raving lunatic, not a stable candidate for public office.  (Click to enlarge a couple of the ones I chose).  

In many of these threads, Shaun seems to be talking to himself.  Here he says he is entering nuclear launch codes, prepare for launch (maybe an analogy for a campaign?). Then Shaun likes his own status and posts 9 comments to himself, five of which get one "like" (all Shaun himself).  No one else seems to be participating in this discussion, it is all Shaun talking to himself.

When I posted this on Facebook last night, Shaun put up a status claiming these clips were "edited".  Sorry Shaun, but they are just screen shots of your account.  

The good news is once I put this up, Shaun deleted some of the craziest posts in his profile.  That combined with him claiming this was "edited" tells me that he is maintaining some level of sanity because he knows his own stuff was too weird to leave up while running. The bad news is that he is still running for Congress when he clearly needs to get some help.   

Comments

[Shaun Broy]

January 15, 2013

Mr. Tribbett,

I think that your attempt to promote my political activities as a “freak show” is a very low blow coming from an individual who has also recently been questioned and publicly attacked for his “crazy” actions against the party. The figure who has frequently and very publicly slammed the DPVA for various actions that just didn't end up in a that was to your satisfaction, now tries to divert such opinion upon one of those who had publicly showed his support.

The story here is told through the very narrow channel of hearsay and meant to be as damaging to my reputation and political future as possible. If you were interested in telling a complete and factual narrative, with some basis of truth to anchor your reasoning behind the decision making process that I went through in regards to running for whatever office, you would have made an attempt to contact me in a professional manner to at least show some actual concern for seeking truth or showing that of concern beyond this intentional ploy based on the hope of many buying into the fable of what you preach.

The circus you portray is that of a hearsay driven, attention grabbing stunt, designed to intentionally destroy my reputation with those individuals who happen to still believe that you don't belong in your own padded cell. It is a shameless piece of a rambling wreck of tangled tiny bits and pieces of reality. This is a written fictional tale, based on the use of smoke and mirrors to convince the public that I am mentally unstable. I'd advise you to base future opinions in which you decide to publish on the factual evidence that surrounds each item you point out. A rational individual would immediately ask a simple question of the person in which you slander so confidently, maybe ask it a few times over before moving forward with publishing such a ton of pure rubbish. Did you even think before you typed? Did you even consider the consequences before you hit save. Did you even think of asking a simple one word question before you unleashed the Hell that was you desire?

W-H-Y? I would have been more than happy to talk with you and answering that question many times over. You left truth out of your opinion and showed no regard for fact. You demonstrated clear intent to slander, insult, hurt and cause as much damage to my reputation as humanly possible. All you had to do was show some regard to the value of “truth” and to go along with such disregard, proved no interest in investigating or reaching out to me in order for someone that you slammed so viciously to have an opportunity to answer any question posed or action that you accused me of confirmed.

You have a right to your opinion, as you have conjured up quite a picture of intentional comedic folly. If you wanted an actual story, based on any degree of fact and not of a horrid slander of hearsay, then you simply would have contacted me in order to allow the person you somehow attempt to express some concern, to help connect the dots of that which you failed to understand, with something that was based on something, anything close to the truth of the matter.

I think that wasting anymore time than you have invested in putting together this absurd distortion of the truth, clearly manipulating my name, distorting actions, fudging falsehoods and creating quite an extravagant tangled web of pure fiction, narrated as you saw fit, as a means to intentionally target from behind and with such wicked malice invested in intent, violently stab someone who has done nothing harmful at all towards with a bloody dagger designed to destroy the reputation of someone who wished no ill will against you Mr. Tribbett.

Your actions are quite frankly below you, which I must draw attention to the fact that to be “below you,” is pretty darn low for someone who had already dug his own grave, as the entire state watched what is now left of such a reputation, as it plunged faster than that of the Titanic's wreckage towards the ocean floor.

One would think that all things being considered, a man who no doubt has the intellect to know better, having experienced such unwarranted attacks against him with the same sort of disregard for the truth, labeled by the establishment as they felt necessary, would be so very careful about any type of stones he would decide to throw.

Respectfully,

Shaun Broy

[Aholtwilliams]

There's no shame in using as few words as possible to express yourself. "I disagree, your proof is dubious, y'all are out to get me" would have sufficed.

[Shaun Broy]

@Aholtwilliams... I agree. Very true. I did end up wasting too much time in the first place.

[notlarrysabato]

That response was amazing. Thanks Shaun.

[Aholtwilliams]

" I agree. Very true. I did end up wasting too much time in the first place."

I appreciate your candor?

[Chad Parker]

Wow. . .what a sad, sad man.

As if the silly social media antics and the unnecessarily verbose response wasn't enough. . .

http://shaunbroy.wix.com/va

C'mon. No-name dude needs to get over himself. And learn how to spell.