NC 8th district candidate and Tea Party choice Tim D'Annunzio. This man admits to mental health problems "in the past". Among claims he made in the past, he found the Arc of the Covenant, he is THE messiah, and a trip home to raise his step-father from the dead. He admits to using pot regularly but won't say when the last time he smoked.

You'd better believe I'm casting my vote against this Wacko come the day of the Republican run-off. I'd vote for a dead man over this guy.

Seriously??

Holy crap

A brief look at Timmy D

He wants to dismantle most of the government...I wonder why he is being attacked? Actually...Washington needs more nuts to cause havoc and gridlock! Elect this nutter asap!

Labeling this guy as crazy is only legit if you're willing to label the deficit spending and fiscal policy under Dubya and the GOP Congress of the time as equally -- or even moreso -- insane.

Now that I look at it, he seems like a fairly normal person with a teenage drug problem and a bitter ex-wife... who sued for and won custody, and now the kids work for him!!

He ran a successful business and made a lot of money all on his own.

I don't see where he admitted to any mental problems. It seems his wife made unsubstantiated claims in the divorce that elicited an evaluation, and the report said his religious beliefs were not delusional.

My apologies for assuming the report was remotely accurate/truthful




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Quote:Court documents portray D'Annunzio as "a self-described religious zealot" who once called the U.S. government the Antichrist and told his ex-wife that he'd found the Ark of the Covenant.

The records are part of a contentious child-custody case

Which explains a lot and shows that the claims that this is part of "focts of the court" is misleading at best

Quote: which included a 1995 psychiatric evaluation. The attending doctor said he couldn't say for sure that D'Annunzio suffered from any emotional disorders.[/b]

That's not how doctors speak... more on this later

Quote:However, Dr. Rodolfo de los Santos Ongjoco wrote that D'Annunzio told him he once entered a drug program for heroin dependence and was jailed three times for offenses including burglary and assaulting a police officer.



Teenage problems

On a blog called "Christ's War," D'Annunzio has acknowledged teenage arrests, jail time and a 1995 conviction for criminal trespassing stemming from a domestic dispute.

I really don't care what he did at 16-19 and as long as it is merely trespass, I'm not interested in how bitter his divorce was

Quote:On his blog, he described dropping out of school in Philadelphia at 15 "to escape an inner city culture of drugs, gangs, crime and violence." He joined the Army, but left a year later. "I fell back in with the same crowd and it wasn't long before I was in trouble with the law," he wrote.

He would later tell Ongjoco that he'd begun using heroin around that time. He told him he'd been jailed for robbing a postal jeep at 16, for burglary at 19 and later for assaulting a police officer.

D'Annunzio re-enlisted and served several more years in the Army, where he says he was a member of the Golden Knights parachute team. On his blog, he said he was honorably discharged in 1984 "after testing positive as having smoked Marijuana."

But he said such problems are behind him.

"People can decide for themselves whether they believe in redemption or not," he said last month.

Contacted by the Observer, Ongjoco declined to discuss his former patient.

The custody case followed a 1995 divorce. A judge awarded D'Annunzio's ex-wife Anne custody of their three children.

Now grown, they live in Raeford and work for their father.

Wary about government

In 1999 D'Annunzio started a company that made bullet-proof vests for the military. He did everything from fixing sewing machines to cleaning bathrooms. Sales for Paraclete Armor & Equipment surged after 9-11 and the start of the war in Afghanistan.

In 2006 he sold the company for $30 million.

Anne D'Annunzio alluded to her ex-husband's conversion in a 1995 court document.

She claimed he told her, among other things, that "God was going to drop a 1,000-mile high pyramid" on Greenland and that he had found the Ark of the Covenant in Arizona.

She told the court that a psychiatric evaluation might determine whether he was fit to visit his children. The 1995 evaluation concluded that D'Annunzio's religious beliefs "do not seem delusional."

In other words, he believes he was speaking metaphorically or didn't say it at all. A little different from the earlier comment that the doctor "couldn't say for sure".

If this was written by a reporter, they should be fired.

I saw many of the same things Hambone10 saw (although it is possible that, even though he religious views weren't delusional, he was potentially emotionally disturbed in other ways so the two statements attributed to the psychiatrist aren't necessarily in conflict), but this is enough to at least give me pause (or would be if I was in his district). Not that I'm taking the report at face value, but he would definitely require some additional investigation.

Quote:In a 1998 child-support judgment, Hoke County District Judge Richard Brown said D'Annunzio claimed the government stole designs for his vests and other products marketed to the Army.

The judge alluded to D'Annunzio's religious conversion and described him as "a self-described religious zealot."

"(He) described the government as the 'Antichrist'," Brown wrote.

I just have a hard time believing that referring to the government as the Antichrist in a legal proceeding is a good idea.

The other question I have is if you really get an honorable discharge from the army for failing a drug test. It seems like it would be a little more fun than pretending you were gay. Not that I am advocating drug usage, mind you. Drugs are bad.

I spoke to a friend of mine in Raeford NC (Hoke County) last night....Much of what is being reported is mess his wife and lawyer tried to slander him with in court. He is somewhat a nutjob..but..lot's of untruths are being reported.

Hey, one night at the Cheetah Club I too thought I found the Ark of the Covenant...

(05-25-2010 10:30 PM)jh Wrote:  I saw many of the same things Hambone10 saw (although it is possible that, even though he religious views weren't delusional, he was potentially emotionally disturbed in other ways so the two statements attributed to the psychiatrist aren't necessarily in conflict), but this is enough to at least give me pause (or would be if I was in his district). Not that I'm taking the report at face value, but he would definitely require some additional investigation.

Quote:In a 1998 child-support judgment, Hoke County District Judge Richard Brown said D'Annunzio claimed the government stole designs for his vests and other products marketed to the Army.

The judge alluded to D'Annunzio's religious conversion and described him as "a self-described religious zealot."

"(He) described the government as the 'Antichrist'," Brown wrote.

I just have a hard time believing that referring to the government as the Antichrist in a legal proceeding is a good idea.

The other question I have is if you really get an honorable discharge from the army for failing a drug test. It seems like it would be a little more fun than pretending you were gay. Not that I am advocating drug usage, mind you. Drugs are bad.

The two statements aren't in conflict... but I don't see where the doctor made the claim... OR the claim that his "mental problems were in the past". Those were both claims by the author... SOMEWHAT supported by the quotes, but not entirely. His ex-wife accused him of being crazy and he was required to visit a psychiatrist by the court to investigate her claim. He was also in trouble as a teen with drugs and he said that is behind him. Nobody, other than his ex-wife, has said he had mental problems, and the "in the past" comment was referring to teen drug use. Even the anti-christ comment was made to a doctor, not to the court. I suspect I've said something like that before... haven't you? Was it smart to say so in that context? He was battling his wife... Though he clearly said it, if the doctor thought he meant it, I doubt he'd have written that his views weren't delusional

Quote:Court documents portray D'Annunzio as "a self-described religious zealot" who once called the U.S. government the Antichrist and told his ex-wife that he'd found the Ark of the Covenant.

Not hard to find. It's in that one box way in the back...