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This is serious. There is a warrant out for the arrest of a Democrat state representative in Pennsylvania, Kevin Boyle, and his family is saying that he is suffering from mental health issues. That is a shame, and we can all hope that Boyle will soon be found and that no harm is done to him or to anyone else. At the same time, however, this unfolding incident raises two key questions: the first is, how could anyone tell that a Democrat politician was mentally ill? And seriously, are there simply no standards for elected officials anymore?
CBS Philadelphia reported Wednesday that the arrest warrant for Boyle is for “a violation of a protection from abuse order.” It seems that Boyle “texted his estranged wife, which is a violation of that order.” But this is about more than just a text: Boyle “was arrested and charged in 2021 for harassment and violating a protection order filed by his estranged wife.” After that, Boyle “told constituents in a letter in 2022 that subsequent treatment at a mental health facility helped save his life.” That would have been a happy ending to the story, but unfortunately, it wasn’t the ending at all.
“Two months ago,” according to CBS, “Boyle went viral on social media after he was seen on camera allegedly threatening staff at the Gaul & Co. Malt House on Huntingdon Pike in Rockledge, Montgomery County. Police said Boyle was reportedly drunk and possibly under the influence of drugs at the time of the incident.” He was “asked to leave the bar several times by employees but refused and allegedly threatened the employees.” The proprietors of the Gaul & Co. Malt House banned Boyle from the premises.
Boyle’s brother is a member of the U.S. Congress, Brendan Boyle (D-Pennsylvania). He says Kevin Boyle’s troubles have been a “nightmare” for the family. “Like any family who has a beloved member with a serious health issue,” Brendan Boyle said in a statement, “we are doing the best we can to help him get better.” Kevin, according to Brendan, “made a full recovery” from a “very serious mental health condition” in 2021, but now it appears that he is suffering a relapse.
Brendan Boyle’s statement continued: “Tragically, several months ago his symptoms returned. In recent weeks his mental health has even further deteriorated. It’s been painful to watch an intelligent, accomplished person with a big heart decline in such a precipitous way. Kevin’s family, close friends, and several colleagues have done everything possible to get him to enter into treatment, but we have been frustrated by a system that gives little power to the loved ones of an adult with a serious mental health condition.”
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40 rounds says
Mentally ill or not, these lunatic Dems are much more politically savvy than, say, the two limp dick republican senators from my state
From The Other Side of Town. says
Too often criminals escape their jail time by pretending they were ill. mentally ill. Too often this is not the case, and the truly living with mental illness folk are saddled with criminals-which is a crime in itself.
Further, we need to be careful where we draw the line at eliminating people from life, including professions. Note: Epilepsy was once put under the “crazy” heading.
somehistory says
Perhaps he has a brain tumor. Or perhaps he just believes he’s right and everyone else is wrong. Psychopaths are running amok these days and many have families who claim *mental illness* is the problem, when it is not.
Males who see women as objects to control, refuse to be denied access to the women they want to abuse.
tgusa says
“Warrant Out for Dem State Rep. He’s Mentally Ill, but How Could Anybody Tell?”
Just him? Seems rather selective and discriminatory. As the dems like to say, no one is above the law. Put out a warrant for all of them but to do that we are going to need more paper.