Posted on 10/27/2021 6:54:19 AM PDT by lowbridge
"I am a hunter -- and I think you should be hunted," a woman can be heard saying in a voicemail left for Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in September. "You will never be safe in Arizona again."
Or there's the man who spit, "Die you bitch, die! Die you bitch, die!" repeatedly into the phone, in another of several dozen threatening and angry voicemails directed at the Democratic secretary of state and shared exclusively with CNN by her office.
Officials and aides in secretary of state offices in Arizona and other states targeted by former President Donald Trump in his attack on last year's election results told CNN about living in constant terror -- nervously watching the people around them at events, checking in their rearview mirrors for cars following them home and sitting up at night wondering what might happen next.
Law enforcement has never had to think much about protecting secretaries of state, let alone allocating hundreds of thousands of dollars in security, tracking and follow-up. Their jobs used to be mundane, unexciting, bureaucratic. These are small offices in a handful of states with enormous power in administering elections, from mailing ballots to overseeing voting machines to keeping track of counted votes.
None were prepared to be publicly attacked. They don't have the budgets to monitor threats, and certainly not to suddenly protect officials who never had to be protected before. No systems were in place on the state or federal level to back them up, and the Department of Justice admits that the federal government doesn't yet have the infrastructure to handle the situation.
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Most anticipate the threats will increase going into next year, with Republicans around the country making election doubt conspiracies a central plank of their campaigns,
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Arec barwin may be available soon to provide armed protection.
Hmmm. Too bad they’re all “morally” against guns of they could protect themselves from the “mob.”
I don’t believe any of these claims. There hasn’t been an assault on an elected official in Arizona, Georgia, or any other state in my memory. Pure fantasy being waved about by CNN.
Ooops! Sorry, wrong quote!
That was from a Black Lies Matter protest.
WHAT GOOD NEWS WE HAVE THIS MORNING!!!
The evil bastages at CNN and the politi-whores think they can hurl out all hateful, violent insults and threats at us conservatives, and not get some pushback.
This is mild stuff compared to what they dish out.
They’re hurling and barfing themselves. But it says CNN, so you know what to expect.
Good, because too many were sponsored by Soros.
Katie Hobbs needs to be put in a nice, safe place for her own safety. I’m thinking 25 years to life in max security should do the trick
Written by CNN. Therefore...pure drivel.
There are times when that’s not needed. The article title alone should suffice.
Does the article tell us WHY the SOSs are terrorized?
Of course not,...it’s because THEY ARE NOT ARRESTING AND PROSECUTING CRIMINALS... who just want to commit crimes and not have to go to prison or anything.
Look at the Jerk in San Fran. He is the epitome of the kind of SOSs backed by ...guess who...SOROS.
And yet, CNN and the rest of the Fake News Media Cheered as wild eyed deranged leftist progressive liberal democrats attacked Republicans in stores, restaurants,...
CNN agitprop as usual.
Tyrants and criminals SHOULD live in fear. The reason we have our Second Amendment is literally because people in power tend to ABUSE that power. An Armed Citizenry can, and should, be a check on that abuse.
If anything, we underutilize our Rights. Far too many petty tyrants doing whatever the hell they want.
Want to gauge how "real" it is? Has the official done anything to increase his or her security posture for themselves and their families? I don't mean simply asking the state police to protect them. I mean change their daily routine, start taking different routes to/from work, change up their hours. Change vehicles. Cancel soccer practice. I mean actually do any of the things you do to improve your security - things that require some sacrifice or changes on your part. If the officials haven't made sacrifices and changes like that, then it is because they are not taking the threat(s) seriously - probably because they know they are not real.
I’ll believe it when I see it
Guilty conscious breeds fear in the guilty.... an OH CRAP... sleepless nights.
They live in fear, all right - that the scope of their illegal acts will be fully revealed. Katie Hobbs deserves to lie awake every night for the rest of her life, fearing that knock on the door by a just law enforcement agency with a warrant.
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