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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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http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/b...#ixzz0j7eUkiL2 -

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.



The blame game is the fear-based tactics of the right. Have at it.


It seems you have run out of steam. I'll check in with you sometime in the
future. Ta Ta


Doubtful. You can't help but read and reply to everything I post.

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