Brown: Let Warren cab driver who knocked camera from tracker's hands keep license

OAK BLUFFS, Mass. (WWLP) - Senator Scott Brown is asking that a cab driver for his Democratic opponent Elizabeth Warren be allowed to keep his license, following a confrontation between the driver and a GOP campaign tracker.

The incident involving the driver , Morgan Reitzas, and a worker for the Massachusetts Republican Party, happened following a Warren campaign event on Martha’s Vineyard.

On the 44-second video, Reitzas appears to knock the camera from the tracker’s hands, telling him: “get out of my face,” and “you’re messing with the wrong people.”

In a letter sent by Brown’s campaign to the Oak Bluffs Board of Selectmen, the Republican says that campaign trackers, which are employed by rival campaigns to record opponents’ events, are part of the political process. He says that campaigns ought to do their best not to overreact, but Reitzas must not have been informed about “the do’s and don’ts of the campaign trail.”

“Mr. Reitzas was put into a situation that is foreign to most people, he did not understand what was going on and he let his emotions get the better of him,” Brown wrote.

Hearing reports that the Board of Selectmen were considering revoking Reitzas’ cab driver’s license, Brown said that he does not think this is the right thing to do.

“I do not think that taking this man’s livelihood is an appropriate response to what occurred,” Brown wrote.

The confrontation between Reitzas and the GOP tracker was not the first such tense incident involving campaign trackers. A Democratic tracker was physically removed from a forum that Brown hosted in Revere back in March.