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Florida man charged

with driving into GOP

voter sign-up tent

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — out of the blue, a man
A man in Florida is under approached us in a van,
arrest after he deliberately was waving at us, kind
drove a van into a tent of a friendly demeanor,
where voters were being thought he was coming In this Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020, image taken from video a voter
registered by local Repub- up to talk to us, instead he registration tent lays on its side after Gregory Timm drove a van
licans, authorities in Jack- accelerated his vehicle through it, in Jacksonville, Fla.
sonville said Sunday. and plowed right into our Associated Press
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s tent, our tables,” volunteer turn a phone call or email Donald Trump retweeted
Office said via social media Mark Alfieri told television seeking further details. that message and added,
that 27-year-old Gregory station WJAX. Afterward, Citing the president of a “Be careful tough guys
William Loel Timm has been he backed up, recorded local theatrical workers who you play with!”
charged with two counts the damaged tent and union, television station In a statement, the Duval
of aggravated assault on a scattered signs on his cell WTLV reported that Timm County Democratic Party
person 65 years old or old- phone and made obscene was training to be a sound condemned what it called
er, one count of criminal gestures before leaving, Al- engineer. “this cowardly act of vio-
mischief and driving with fieri said. The sheriff’s office In a tweet, GOP chair- lence.”
a suspended license. The says deputies responded woman Ronna McDaniel “No one’s life should be
Republican party of Duval to the scene after receiv- said, “These unprovoked, placed in danger for ex-
County said it had set up ing reports of a dispute. The senseless attacks on @re- ercising their First Amend-
the tent on Saturday in or- tent appeared to be set up alDonaldTrump’s support- ment rights,” the statement
der to register voters. in a parking lot. There were ers need to end.” President said. q
The county GOP said no online court records
via Twitter that six volun- posted for Timm on Sunday
teers for President Donald morning, so it wasn’t known
Trump’s campaign “were if he had a lawyer. Jail re-
intentionally targeted while cords show he was still in
registering voters.” custody Sunday morning.
Local media said there The sheriff’s office on Sun-
were no injuries. “Kind of day didn’t immediately re-
New cruise ship

scheduled to visit

Great Lakes in 2022

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) eight ships come to call
— A cruise ship currently from one company in two
being built in Norway is years."
scheduled to visit the Great The cruise itinerary that in-
Lakes, including a stop at cludes dates in Traverse
Traverse City in northern City, called "Niagara & the
Michigan eight times in Great Lakes," will shuttle
2022. between Toronto and Mil-
About a year ago, the Dis- waukee, with stops at Ni-
covery Center & Pier an- agara Falls, Point Pelee on
nounced plans to transform Lake Erie in Ontario, Detroit,
a former Michigan coal Alpena and Mackinac Is-
dock in Greilickville into a land.
site that ships could use to Discovery Pier officials said
land passengers — in ef- they're excited about the
forts to attract more cruise scientific bent of Viking's
ship traffic to Grand Tra- planned cruises and the
verse Bay, the Traverse City demographic the compa-
Record-Eagle reported. ny is marketing toward.
The 665-foot-long (203-me- "They're interested in learn-
ter-long) Viking Octantis is ing about science, and the
offering four different itin- natural resources of the
eraries, starting in January Great Lakes," McDonough
2022. A sister ship, the Vi- said. "We're talking with
king Polaris, is scheduled to our partners on developing
launch in August 2022. programming for them."
"This is all happening a little Viking, based in Switzer-
faster than we expected," land, launched in 1997 as
said Discovery Center & Viking River Cruises and
Pier CEO Matt McDonough. operates river vessels and
"We didn't expect to have ocean ships.q