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October 21, 2014      10:16 AM

Houston GOP House campaign worker accused of swinging box cutter at Democratic staffer

Accusation of Republican Texas House candidate being a “communist sympathizer” leads to a melee in Alief

Here at Buzz Central in Austin, we’ve been hearing rumblings out of Southeast Texas for a few weeks that race for the Texas House seat held by Rep. Hubert Vo, D-Houston, is getting nasty. The challenge from Republican Al Hoang, a former Houston councilman, is the first time people in the district have a choice between two Vietnamese candidates.  

Now, we get this news via KTRK Television:  

“A fight over a campaign display outside an early voting location led to one arrest. Representatives from both Hubert Vo and Al Hoang's campaign were at the Alief Library early voting location off 7979 S Kirkwood Road. Police say someone in Vo's camp then put up a banner accusing Hoang of being a communist sympathizer.

Police say someone in Hoang's campaign then pulled out a box cutter and started cutting up the banner. That man, identified as Peter Vo, 58, is accused of then swinging the box cutter at a Vo representative who tried to stop him. Peter Vo now faces charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.”