# Frederick Wintle, a Maine State Rep (R) is going dangerously nuts -

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**Created:** [May 24, 2011, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frederick-wintle-a-maine-state-rep-r-is-going-dangerously-nuts/582993 "2011-05-24T08:37:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frederick-wintle-a-maine-state-rep-r-is-going-dangerously-nuts/582993/1 "2011-05-24T08:37:54Z")

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[Story here](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/23/frederick-ladd-wintle-gun-charges_n_865538.html)

It must be a fun time around the Statehouse these days wit this guy running around.

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> As part of court-ordered bail conditions, Wintle is barred from having a gun and from entering the State House complex without permission from House Speaker Robert Nutting, said Rep. Kenneth Fredette, an attorney who represented Wintle in court.
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> As Wintle was being led from the courtroom, he offered this unsolicited remark: “I believe in America. I believe in God. I believe in my family, and I believe this is going to be all right,” according to the Bangor Daily News.
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> Chief Russell Gauvin, who is in charge of State House security, questioned Wintle last week after other lawmakers expressed alarm over Wintle’s erratic behavior even before the incident with the gun. Around the same time, Gauvin learned that Wintle had been kicked out of the motel where he sometimes stayed in Augusta.
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> Gauvin said Wintle told him that his comments were being taken out of context and that people didn’t get his sense of humor.