Independent Minnesota Senate candidate Marisa Simonetti has been sentenced to 90 days in the Hennepin County workhouse after a jury convicted her over a tenant dispute involving a live tarantula.

Independent Minnesota US Senate candidate Marisa Simonetti, 32, has been sentenced to three months in the Hennepin County workhouse after throwing a live tarantula onto the staircase leading to her tenant’s living space in Edina. She was convicted of gross misdemeanour harassment and misdemeanour domestic assault and will serve her 90-day sentence on school and work release. The court also ordered her to serve two years of probation and submit a written apology to the victim.

Simonetti’s sentence comes as she campaigns for a seat in the US Senate, hoping to replace Tina Smith in the November 2026 Minnesota election. Her candidacy has drawn further attention after a video she posted of herself confronting a Girl Scout and the child’s mother over selling cookies without a permit went viral, putting her own conduct under public scrutiny.

  • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Hate to break it to you but slavery did not end in the United States, it outlaws it’s use except in the case of lawful detention. Ie. The state and the feds can own people but you nor I cannot.

    Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

    Section 2

    Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.