Sen. Daniel Thatcher has lodged a criminal complaint against the top-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives for an alleged assault.
Thatcher, R-West Valley City, says he and House Minority Leader Brian King, D-Salt Lake City, got in a physical altercation last month in a hallway in the Senate building at the State Capitol following a verbal exchange in a parking lot earlier that day.
“He grabbed me with both hands and shoved me toward the wall and repeatedly hit my sternum with his finger while shouting that I had no idea what it’s like to be in a superminority and how dare I criticize him for partisanship,” Thatcher said Friday.