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.