Incredible as it may seem, Ninth District U.S. Congressional candidate Brooke Siskin has been arrested twice this year while allowing a weird message to remain on her personal social media page. She is currently in an Aug. 11th runoff election with fellow Democrat Devin Pandy.
Siskin’s first brush with the law, as recorded by Atlanta Progressive News, came on March 6 when she was arrested for disorderly conduct and criminal trespass at a BB&T bank branch in Lawrenceville.
Siskin says the incident had to do with a dispute involving an alleged withdrawal of funds by her ex-husband. But get this! At the time, she was already subject to possible contempt charges in connection with her divorce proceeding from her ex-husband in Gwinnett County Superior Court. APN reports that Siskin was supposed to have appeared in court on March 09, but she was in jail. She missed the March 09 court hearing and March 10 court hearing the next day.
Her court hearing was reset for March 30. Yet she failed to appear which then triggered contempt charges. Siskin was arrested a second time on July 9 when a Gwinnett County Superior Court judge ordered her to serve four days in jail for contempt of court and for failure to surrender guns pursuant to a previous court order. The candidate later claimed that she only had one gun, and that it has now been turned in.
“This has furthered my attempt to run because I want to be a voice for women who live in fear,” Siskin told APN. But there’s more. Siskin’s Facebook page reported that she had died in South Carolina, which naturally sparked a police inquiry.
On February 26, this post appeared on Siskin’s personal Facebook page: “Sorry to report but this is Brandi at Holiday Inn Express. …Brooke Siskin died this morning in the lobby of our hotel. Time of death 2:45 a.m.” The Facebook item appeared as posted from Wade Hampton, South Carolina, where there is, in fact, a Holiday Inn Express. But then “Brandi,” when contacted, stated that the post simply wasn’t true.
“I was hacked,” Siskin later explained. Yet APN reports that, nearly five months later, the post was still on Siskin’s Facebook page with no response from her to people asking about her health. The bottom line: Siskin insists her arrests should not disqualify her from running for Congress.
“If I’m correct, they just picked (State Sen.) Nikema Williams to replace (the late-U.S. Rep.) John Lewis. She was arrested,” Siskin said, referring to Williams’s arrest at the Capitol for simply standing with protesting constituents.
