Trashy GA politics stuff leads to arrest

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The wife of a Georgia county commissioner turned herself in Friday after an arrest warrant was issued based on allegations she poured soda on the head of a local reporter in an incident that was partially caught on video.

Abbey Winters, 35, the wife of Chattooga County Sole Commissioner Jason Winters, allegedly took the action during a county budget meeting that left attendees gasping and seeming to quickly take sides on the matter.

Out of the recording camera’s view, photos taken at the meeting captured AllOnGeorgia reporter Casie Bryant seated with the liquid covering her head and jacket.

According to local station WTVC, Bryant had written on Facebook the night before the meeting about the commissioner’s budget plans as well as his recent trip to France.

“Fresh off his trip to Paris, he’s ready to talk about the budget to the PUBLIC,” Bryant’s post read. She added that she had received requests from the public to look into how he afforded such a trip.

“She brought it on herself,” a woman who appears to be seated next to Bryant says in the video after the drink has been flung.

“By saying that he went to France?” another woman asks.

“Oh yes, bitch,” another woman replies.

“No, you need to stop, girlfriend,” one woman says.

“I need to stop? I need to?”

Bryant was interviewed by police and said she recalled hearing someone say that the drink “looked good on her,” according to the police report.

Jason and Abbey Winters, after speaking with their attorney, called the incident an accident and said that Abbey Winters simply tripped and spilled her drink on Bryant. Jason Winters, according to WZQZ, added that Bryant “deserved what happened to her.”

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