Sure, Fred.
Posted on 11/10/2021 8:58:25 AM PST by Paladin2
Republican Rep. Fred Upton says he has received over 1,000 calls, including multiple death threats, since he voted Friday to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill – a measure he helped write earlier this year.
The calls began when fellow GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, of Georgia, posted Upton's phone number online following the vote. She called him and the other 12 Republicans who voted for the bill "traitors."
An Upton spokesperson said 90% of the calls are coming from outside the congressman's district in southwest Michigan.
One man from South Carolina purportedly left a message in which he said, "I hope you die. I hope everybody in your f---ing family dies."
In response to the threats, the congressman called the current congressional environment "polarized," and "toxic."
Upton, who voted in January to impeach then-President Trump, also called the situation on Capitol Hill "worse than I've ever seen before ... . This is not what our kids and families ought to be seeing."
Upton told the Detroit News that he is opposed to Democrats' larger spending package – known as Build Back Better – and takes issue with the measure and bipartisan infrastructure being politicized as inherently tied to one another.
"I'm against it," he said. "But we're weeks away from seeing how this concludes, I hope it never gets to the finish line. But no longer are they connected, which is one of the arguments that was being used to oppose this."
The congressman, who has been in office since 1987, argued that the time is now to afford a desperately needed facelift to the country's infrastructure.
Michigan would receive about $10 billion in federal funding over the next five years, including $7.3 billion from federal highway programs, and another half billion for bridge replacements and repairs.
There is also money in the bill that will go toward helping to improve the state's water infrastructure, including lead service line replacement.
[[Just claim death threats every time to garner sympathy for any “stance” you take. It’s the latest craze!]]
Exactly my thought when I read the title.
The left love to pull hoaxes. It’s trendy.
He’s lucky that’s all he’s got is death threats.
In a word: Good! Friggn RINO POS~!
These guys should be grateful it’s only threats. They will never see it coming if the right kind of person decides to act, god forbid.
But then reality and facts and literacy are anethma to proggy commie crooked con men.
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Not only is it not a threat, it doesn’t in any way mention or advocate violence!
“GOP Rep. Fred Upton says he’s received death threats after backing bipartisan infrastructure bill”
If that were true, you know damn well that our KGB, FBI would be biting at the bit to lock up right wingers.Not only are these scum buckets traitors they are also liars.
Upton should resign, period.
Call us when the threats are acted upon...
Then we’ll determine how we feel about them...
Don’t forget that Upton is the one who outlawed bright (over 100 wats) light bulbs for those mini fluorescents that you had dispose of in expensive ways with their poisonous mercury.
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