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Democratic lawmakers facing death threats after health bill signed
Posted: March 24, 2010, 9:58 AM by Ron Nurwisah
U.S. Politics, health care



A number of Democratic congressman are enraged due to a series of threats
leveled not just at them but also at their families just days after the
controversial health care bill passed through the House of
Representatives and was signed into law by President Barack Obama.

Congresswoman Louise Slaughter reported that her office was damaged by
vandals, and received phone calls threatening her children and grand
children. Similar threats were leveled at Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak
and Ohio's Steve Driehaus.

From Politico:

Slaughter, a Democrat who chairs the House Rules Committee, said a
caller to her office last week vowed to send snipers to “kill the
children of the members who voted yes.” Her office reported the call to
police, who were dispatched to provide protection for Slaughter’s
grandchildren. She has also been in touch with the FBI and U.S. Postal
Service inspectors, who intercepted a letter en route to her home in
upstate New York.

Stupak, the Michigan Democrat whose last-minute compromise on
abortion guaranteed passage of the bill Sunday, said callers have left
messages for him saying, “You’re dead; we know where you live; we’ll get
you.”

Rhetoric in the final days and hours of the debate around the health care
got particularly heated. Texas representative Randy Neugebauer received
both condemnation and praise after shouting 'baby killer' allegedly at
Democrat Bart Stupak. Neugebauer later said the insult was hurled at no
one in particular.

Earlier during the weekend, a number of black Congressman reported that
protesters hurled racial slurs at them. One congressman, civil rights
leader James Clyburn, claimed that some of the faxes he received included
an image of a noose and racial slurs. Prominent Massachusetts Congressman
Barney Frank, one of the only openly gay members of Congress, was the
victim of homophobic insults.

Tea Party and GOP leadership has condemned these racial slurs.

From Fox News:

Republican National Chairman Michael Steele and one of the organizers
of Saturday's Tea Party rally strongly condemned the racial slurs that
some black lawmakers alleged were yelled at them by some health care
protesters as they headed for a procedural vote at Capitol Hill.

"I absolutely think it's isolated," Amy Kremer, the grassroots
coordinator of the Tea Party Express, told Fox News on Sunday. "It's
disgraceful and the people in this movement won't tolerate it because
that's not what we're about."


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News nets are now reporting the above, with interviews of a number of
elected officials who have received threats.


The conservative way...shoot 'em all.

What a country this is.
Has this country been as divided as it is now, since the civil war?
Don't know. Just askin.


What difference does it make if it's better or worse than at some point in
history.... Why don't you blame the Democrats for it. Instead of where it
really belongs... racial slurs, spitting on people, death threats, actually
murdering doctors.

Do you really think that would help? Probably not. The blame game is a
liberals thing anyway.