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(So many scandals with Guinta, it's hard to keep up. - promoted by Dean Barker)
The police reports about the famous June night when Frank Guinta fled the scene of the bar fight at the Fish and Game make for interesting reading.
Well, he won't like the term "fled", because as you can see in the report, Frank says, "...it's not my personality or my nature - to run away from a problem." [unless it is answering questions about mystery bank accounts, but I digress]
However, Frank did leave, before an ambulance arrived. When the investigating officer points out that Guinta did not call an ambulance, Guinta's response was that "the ambulance was called pretty quickly...It was apparent immediately that - the ambulance was called...it was clear to the people in the room that an ambulance was on its way.
In fact, instead of an ambulance being called immediately, one of the club officers was called, who came down to the Fish. It was only after she arrived that she called an ambulance. According to the bartender, it was about 20 minutes, perhaps a half hour, before the ambulance came. Before the ambulance arrived, Guinta fled, excuse me, left the bar.
But not because he was the mayor. It was because
"at some point, you access it and determine, you know, when it's reasonable to leave."
Besides, Guinta says, "I am not afraid - you know, I think people who know me would know that I'm not afraid to call the police on any of these circumstances. Any time things like this happen." That had me puzzled - have there been incidents when Guinta has called the police in similar circumstances? Or was he just saying that he would not be afraid to call the police if he happened to be around another bar fight in the future?
All very puzzling. But I am happy to report that the former mayor did not, according to the bartender, walk over the fellow on the floor to leave. "There was enough room to walk around."
