Posted on 10/18/2018 8:50:37 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) thanked the owner of a Tennessee restaurant on Thursday for hosting a campaign event for her after the owner received death threats and insults for letting Blackburn rent an event room at his establishment.
"The radical Left is out of control, and their angry mob is right here in Tennessee," Blackburn tweeted alongside an article from local paper, The Wilson Post, describing the backlash restaurant owner Tom Courtney and his staff have received.
"Tom, we appreciate your opening your restaurant up to us, and we hope you are treated with the same respect as you treat your customers," she wrote.
Courtney told the Post that his life has been threatened over his decision and his staff had been verbally accosted, though he said that he has not filed a police report over the threats.
“Right to free speech and everything," he said. "I don’t need to expose the idiots who are keyboard crazy and damage a small local business. The ghosts behind their posts. It will blow over. I’m just blown away though.”
Courtney told the paper that he had been called Nazi and an abuser by some people online, adding that such comments had hurt his business, staff and family.
“I was called a Nazi sympathizer of all things,” he told the Post. “It’s hurt my business, my staff, me and my family," he said. "I’ve never seen grown people, or whoever is hidden behind the screens, act in such a manner. I have partners.”
Hundreds of online posters have said they will boycott the restaurant for Courtney's decision, the paper reported.
“People have posted they love our food, but will no longer come to the restaurant,” Courtney said. “I have never in my life experienced such a thing. It’s scary.”
Blackburn is in a heated race for the U.S. Senate in Tennessee against Democratic challenger Phil Bredesen.
A Vanderbilt University poll released Thursday showed Bredesen leading Blackburn by 1 percentage point, 44-43, which falls within the poll's margin of error. A RealClearPolitics average of polling shows Blackburn up by an average of 6.5 percentage points.
In Spades!
Be Armed (even when you brush your teeth)
Luke 22:36-38
Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. 37 For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end. 38 And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.
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With the murders!
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And it’s going to get much worse. If they LOSE, they will attack from RAGE and vindictiveness. If they WIN they will attack for celebration and victory.
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They’ve already lost!
They know it.
They’re just turning up the burners in Hell to shorten their own suffering.
Any day now I expect to see Pelosi pulling up to CAPITOL HILL in a dune buggy, telling her followers there is a place in Death Valley to go to and await the annihilation of the UNACCEPTABLES.
A little surprised because I thought Wilson County was pretty conservative. However there has been a huge population growth in the past few years.
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I expect her to spontaneously self-incinerate any minute.
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