Posted on 11/14/2016 8:37:07 PM PST by KeyLargo
Idaho Trump electors report ‘barrage’ of harassing messages urging them to change votes
By Betsy Z. Russell bzrussell@gmail.com (208) 336-2854
MONDAY, NOV. 14, 2016, 3:45 P.M.
Idaho’s four presidential electors say they have been getting harassing phone calls, emails and Facebook messages urging them to become “faithless electors” and not cast their votes for Donald Trump in the electoral college.
“A lot of ’em use bad, rough language,” said Layne Bangerter, one of the four electors. “Nothing I feel intimidated over. But we’re watching it very closely. They’ve got our home phone numbers, our cell numbers, our emails, our Facebook. We’re just getting an orchestrated barrage from the left.”
Idaho’s other three Trump electors are Jennifer Locke, of Coeur d’Alene, Caleb Lakey, of Kuna, and former state Sen. Melinda Smyser, R-Parma. “Caleb told me he had over 200 and something when he checked this morning,” Bangerter said.
Locke said, “It is concerning to me. It does feel like some level of intimidation.”
She said one message urged her to “vote for Jeb.” Others questioned Trump’s qualifications or charged sexism and racism. “They’re not even from this state – it’s Oregon, New York, California, Massachusetts, a lot of these is where I’m getting messages from,” she said.
Bangerter said he’s received around 40 messages on Facebook alone. “They attack my religion, they attack my politics, they tell me that I must be a terrible father, I must be a terrible American, they use foul language – every swear word,” he said. “They’re just trying to steal this thing. They won’t be able to do it, but they’re trying.”
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If Republicans had tried this in 2008 and 2012, they would have been laughed off the planet.
Yet we’re supposed to take anti-Trump moonbats seriously.
Obama said Trump will be the next President. Reality is not something they’re ready to accede to.
When all is said and done, their loss.
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They forgot to say their home addresses, too.
Maybe they should be sequestered.
I worry about GOP establishment people being appointed as a Republican elector.
I still dont have faith in the GOP establishment.
GOP electors will vote as instructed by the people of their state. That’s their mandate.
Trump won ID and there’s no dispute he should get its four electoral votes.
Like I said, on the part of the Left, this is a self-defeating strategy.
These harassing moonbats should be hunted down, arrested, and thrown in jail.
Damn dirtbags.
We are just hearing hearing about these... many more probably.
Are you saying the local police getting involved with protecting their citizens is wrong?
You have people who can’t deal with reality.
It changes nothing. The Electoral College will formally elect Trump on December 19.
As far as the EC count is concerned, its a landslide.
Already 2 republican electors from Texas saying they might not vote for Trump.
In the end they’ll vote for him.
You worry too much and Politico isn’t a credible source.
Well, they certainly don’t have anything to fear from the timid Trump voters. That’s for sure.
One word: Chicago
Dead Fish.
I don’t believe there are any Trump electors from Chicago.
Hillary has 232 electors. She needs 38 to get to 270.
If was a few dozen, different story.
Not gonna be any real suspense next month.
The question is is who selected these Electors. If they were selected by the GOP establishment then I can easily see half the electors not voting for Trump and allowing the house to decide the the next President.
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