Tustin City Council candidate loses it when asked to control his daughter during home tour. Shoves elderly docent

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 Tustin City Council candidate is apologizing after a video posted online showed him swearing at and shoving a man during a home tour earlier this year.

Lee Fink, running to represent District 1 on the Tustin council, said Thursday the interaction was “unfitting for anyone, much less someone running for public office.”

Ring camera footage posted this week by the OC Independent, a site run by Matthew Cunningham, who’s written for decades about politics in the county, shows a man telling Fink’s wife that their daughter broke some coral and asked that she not play with any more items.

Fink then approaches them and says his daughter didn’t touch or break anything. Fink then gets closer to the man and shouts, “We either have a problem or we don’t have a problem” before shoving him with one hand and swearing at him.

https://www.ocregister.com/2024/10/18/tustin-council-candidate-apologizes-after-video-shows-him-shoving-man/






By:Matthew Cunningham

Two days after Ring video emerged of him shoving and cussing out an elderly docent during a home tour, Tustin City Council candidate Lee Fink this morning issued an apology of sorts via e-mail.


However, the Ring video shows the elderly docent politely asking Courtney Long, Fink’s wife, to simply ensure their toddler didn’t play with any more fragile things, since she had already broken a decorative coral. Neither Long nor her daughter seemed upset. They do appear upset when Fink blows his stack and starts in on the docent.

“And I overreacted,” said Fink.

By “overreacted,” Fink is referring to aggressively berating the docent, then literally getting his face, shoving the elderly man while yelling “You’d better get the fuck away from me, you little piece of shit!” and “You stop fucking around with my daughter or you go down! That’s the way it goes!”

“I want to apologize to that individual and the homeowners involved,” Fink continues.

https://ocindependent.com/2024/10/tustin-council-candidate-lee-fink-issues-quasi-apology-after-ring-video-shows-him-shoving-verbally-abusing-senior-citizen/