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 ...
Not condoning it, but stealing an election is basically the same as stealing a country. They shouldn’t be surprised if some people are upset about it.
Yes. That too.
And the three attempts on Rand Paul’s life.
fake news
Stop blaming Trump for everything
Right wing crazies? (Crazy leans left but has no borders)
Left wing crazies?
Media imagination/Fake News?
Cover story for left wing violence?
I suppose they think they can support and carry on election fraud with no consequences whatsoever. . . they made their bed. Poetic justice that they now live in fear and feel they must constantly look over their shoulders. The Rats have made violence and fear regular tools in their campaign of lawlessness . . . consider Portland, Minneapolis and 1-6. Folks will only take so much before they bite back.
CNN just fanning the flames, or at least the smoldering embers, of their campaign to both disinform and misinform America.
Little if any of this is probably based on verifiable fact, and the “threats” exist mostly in fevered imaginations.
“Rigging elections has consequences”
This is gaslighting. The GOP don’t live in fear at all. They wouldn’t be acting this way if they feared consequences for their coupist actions.
Too late, too bad, so sad.
But Jena had a Commie stooge-judge [joodge] on speed dial...
Oh, they can be nasty, dirty and brutish, but in the long run cowardice and cruelty with fail, and courage and truth will prevail! (Many of us just need to improve on our courage a bit ... but it can be done in '21!)
Don’t forget Michigan Mean Girl Jocelyn Benson - right up there with your other Secretaries Of Soros.
Little heavy on the script writing by CNN. Not unusual though.
What they actually said: Let’s Go Brando
radical iVote: “Now more than ever we need to elect Democratic Secretaries of State in order to secure voting rights for all citizens. In 2018, iVote is zeroing in on this key office in swing states and across the nation. Electing those who will fight to ensure Republicans can no longer bar certain people from the ballots is crucial to our democracy.”
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Arizona Katie Hobbs
Katie Hobbs is an Arizona state legislator and has been a social worker for over 25 years. She has dedicated her life to listening to her community and helping solve difficult challenges for the people of Arizona.
IF the title is true ...Then .... GOOD
Gabby Giffords, Tucson, AZ Jan. 8, 2011
A mental case. Though a friend stated “he was leftwing when I knew him in hs & college”.
Gabby Giffords had armed security at her rally.
They are traitors who helped steal a presidential election, so they deserve whatever they get, but I winder how many of these threats are hoaxes.
Not sure if “Netorious” was a typo for “notorious”, but if it intended as a pun that means “infamous on the internet”, you are brilliant!
And yes, the leftists nd their pals in the FBI might be behind all the threatening posts the article whines about, and a lot more. Unfortunately real yahoos do make nasty threats, playing into the lefts’ hands.
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