Criminal Charges Filed Against Walker
Criminal charges have been filed against one of the candidates for the 5th District Congressional seat. District Attorney Bill Shaw today filed charges of burglary, criminal trespass, disorderly conduct, stalking and criminal attempt/invasion of privacy against Derek Walker of Clearfield County. Walker says he believes another Republican candidate, Matt Shaner, pressured the district attorney into filing the charges. Shaner denies that accusation. The complaint, filed by Clearfield police Chief Jeffrey Rhone and signed by Shaw, accuses Walker of using his cell phone to videotape a former girlfriend in an intimate moment with another man on Aug. 25, 2007. The complaint also alleges that he had contact with her on two other occasions, despite being told by a police officer on Aug. 25 that he should avoid further contact and that charges were pending. The charges came just as state Senator Joe Scarnati endorsed Walker.
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Did you ever consider that the front runners were set up to wipe each other out for someone else’s benefit. A Potter County newspaper explored Peterson’s implied need for negative campaigning for the candidate he endorsed. Is that somehow behind this nuclear war between the two top contenders? Is No. 3 next? I think there’s more to this than meets the eye, especially since Peterson and Scarnati are on the outs. According to the article in this week’s Potter Leader-Enterprise, Peterson asked several candidates about the skeletons in their closets giving the impression that he would possibly endorse them. All you had to do here was to get one of these top candidates to push the button, knowing the other would have to respond. Think about it.