Aspiring Minnesota GOP lawmaker who ran on ‘family values’ platform is accused of horrific behavior towards former lover
An aspiring Republican lawmaker from Minnesota has been arrested on charges of assault and battery — a year after he was charged with fraud.
Marisa Simonetti, 30, who campaigned for ‘Rebuilding Security through Family Values’ before this year’s elections, was taken into custody yesterday.
The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office has charged Simonetti with fifth-degree assault and domestic violence.
According to reports, the aspiring congresswoman was also charged with financial card fraud against her former lover last year.
Marisa Simonetti, 30, who led a ‘Rebuilding Safety through Family Values’ campaign ahead of this year’s elections, was taken into custody yesterday
She remains currently in custody at the Hennepin County Adult Detention Center and no bail amount has been set yet.
Simonetti will appear in court on Monday for an initial hearing.
DailyMail.com has reached out to the Sheriff’s Office for more information about the allegations.
The aspiring lawmaker’s campaign page describes her as the only conservative candidate in the race who hopes to rebuild security through family values.
In an effort to promote her campaign message and gain support, Simonetti once posted a video to
In an effort to highlight her campaign message and gain support, Simonetti once posted a video to ‘.
But despite using classic Republican election strategies, she has already lost the May 14 special election for the vacant District 6 seat on the county executive board to state Rep. Heather Edelson.
She campaigned to become one of seven Hennepin County Board commissioners tasked with approving budgets for both the attorney general and sheriff’s offices.
Despite the loss, Simonetti has previously indicated that she will run again against Edelson in the upcoming elections in November.
Previously it had been the Conservative candidate accused of conducting transactions on the victim’s financial cards and accounts totaling $75,000 and $8,876.
The misdemeanor charges were eventually dropped after the victim refused to cooperate with prosecutors.
Previously, the Conservative candidate was accused of conducting transactions using the victim’s financial cards and accounts totaling $75,000 and $8,876.
This comes months after Las Vegas police began investigating WWE wrestler and Republican Congressional candidate Dan Rodimer for allegedly killing a man who offered cocaine to his stepdaughter at a hotel room party in October.
The former wrestling star turned himself in after he was accused of killing 47-year-old Christopher Tapp during a Halloween party at a Vegas hotel last year.
Tapp was a recently exonerated man who had spent twenty years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of the 1996 murder of his friend.
He and Rodimer, who was endorsed by Donald Trump during a failed campaign bid in Nevada, reportedly knew each other through Vegas’ classic car and racing circuit.
IMAGE: Dan Rodimer, 45, who has been charged with the murder of Christopher Tapp, 47
An arrest warrant alleges the alleged cocaine murder occurred after Rodimer, dressed as “Ken” from the Barbie movie, became enraged over the offer of narcotics to his stepdaughter, whose name and age are not known.
Tapp’s death at the Resorts World suite in Vegas was initially ruled an accident, but the Clark County Coroner’s Office later ruled it a homicide after discovering “blunt force trauma” to his head.
According to the reported arrest record, a second witness claimed she saw the former wrestler “knock Christopher to the ground, after which Christopher’s head hit a table.”
They claimed he then “punched Christopher in the head and body.”
Rodimer became a wrestler after winning the 2004 WWE reality ‘Tough Enough’ match
Originally from Rockaway, New Jersey, Rodimer became a wrestler after winning the WWE’s Tough Enough match in 2004, eventually moving on to wrestle for the RAW brand under the name Dan Rodimer.
In 2020, he challenged Democratic Rep. Susie Lee ran for her seat in Nevada’s District 3 and lost by 13,000 votes.
He later moved to Texas to run as a Republican in a District 6 special election with the slogan “Vote Big Dan,” where he was trounced again by just over 2,000 votes, equivalent to 2.7 percent of the vote.
In 2020, he received Trump’s full support, with the former president tweeting at the time: “As a former professional wrestler, he will fight for lower taxes, better education, and more jobs, and he will always support our courageous law enforcement.” Dan has my complete and total approval!’
Rodimer’s Instagram bio notes that he graduated from law school, and his wrestling fan page indicates that he attended the University of South Florida, where he was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and played football for the school.
He also had a semi-pro football career for the Tampa Bay Barracudas, played for the Arena Football League and worked as a personal trainer, according to the page.