Hey Gary Abernathy! Here is another shining example of a reasonable Republican who just publicly threatened to kill the Jefferson County Public School Superintendent Marty Pollio over mandating masks for anyone in the public schools next year. We get tough on domestic terrorists in KY though! Too bad he was only cited and not arrested. A judge ordered the man, Bradley Linzy, to stay 500 feet from Pollio and not to have a gun in his car.
I suppose if he has a gun on his person that it might be OK then.
But I digress…
For those not in the know, Jefferson County has the largest school district in the state of Kentucky. And while Louisville is supposedly a liberal Sodom to the rest of God fearing citizens of Kentucky, we have more than enough retrograde assholes in the city. Trust me on that. I grew up in Louisville.
Anyway, it seems that Marty Pollio is more than a bit concerned about the Delta Variant of COVID-19 that he is asking the Jefferson County School Board for another mask mandate for the next school year. The last time I checked, only about 56% of Jefferson County residents were vaccinated. This is good compared to the rest of the vaccination rates for the dumb rednecks in the other 119 counties of Kentucky.
Well, it was too much for Bradley Linzy. This is behind a subscription wall, so I will have to be liberal in what I poach for you all to read:
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The man cited for threatening Superintendent Marty Pollio over a mask requirement in Jefferson County Public Schools described COVID-19 as a “fake crisis” on his YouTube channel and has condemned public officials for their response to the pandemic.
“The whole COVID business has my back up,” Bradley Linzy said in a call to the Jefferson County Board of Election complaining about a mask requirement for voters.
In a long video he recorded before Election Day last year, Linzy, 43, said: “I am getting a divorce from my wife. People are committing suicide. A lot of it has to do with these shutdown mandates, which are frankly unconstitutional."…
But in another channel, he has railed against COVID-19 restrictions and suggested the pandemic was planned in advance by world leaders and business executives.
He also has complained about diversity and equity initiatives and said white males are the most hated people in America.
Linzy was cited for terroristic threatening and disorderly conductafter he jumped out of his car, in which he said he had a gun, and "aggressively approached" Pollio at the Van Hoose Education Center.
According to a citation, he yelled, “Your life is f------ over and career as you know it,” adding, "You don't know what I'm capable of doing."
He had previously been escorted out of the building after complaining about mask mandates for unvaccinated students and staff in the coming school year.
Emboldened is my doing.
Linzy now claims that he didn’t say that “Your life is fucking over...” to Pollio. He just meant his career was over. And Linzy is claiming that he is under a lot of stress because his wife has kicked him out of the house. She has two kids with this “man.”
And Linzy is a Libertarian and a Republican.
Linzy previously wrote freelance commentaries for the Huffington Post’s United Kingdom edition, which described him as a “self-professed libertarian and member of the Republican Party” who, when he was not “changing stinky diapers” ran a guitar trading business and “dabbled with dangerous electronics.”
Linzy also called the Election Board last year and stated he was NOT wearing a mask, despite what Governor Andy Beshear had mandated. He yelled about it being unconstitutional. And he has a panic attack when he wears a mask. Or so he says.
He has a past record of extreme behavior. He “joked” about being a member of ISIS in 2018. The FBI showed up on his doorstep. And he has an arrest record for disorderly behavior going back to the 90’s.
I bet he is unvaccinated to boot. Be nice if he had been arrested. It would get him up close and personal with COVID-19.