Posted on 08/06/2009 6:39:57 AM PDT by Rebelbase
Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC) will not be hosting any town hall events this August -- instead, he's making himself available to constituents for one-on-one meetings about health care reform -- and at least part of the reason is this: His offices have received threatening phone calls, including at least one direct threat against his life.
"We had no town hall events scheduled for the August recess anyway, but in light of everything that's happened -- we have received a threatening phone call in the D.C. office, there have been calls to the Raleigh office," said Miller communications director LuAnn Canipe, in an interview with TPM. The threatening call in question happened earlier this week.
"The call to the D.C. office was, 'Miller could lose his life over this,'" said Canipe. "Our staffer took it so seriously, he confirmed what the guy was saying. He said, 'Sir is that a threat?' and at that time our staffer was getting the phone number off caller ID and turning it over to the Capitol Police."
They haven't heard anything back from the police yet, but they did get the caller's number. So this could develop into something soon enough.
Canipe explained that Miller had no plans for a town hall before and won't be holding any now, due to this event and the examples he's already seen from the around the country: "Our point is, we're not gonna be bullied into having a town hall so it can then be interrupted by the fake grassroots folks."
"We don't want to people to think we're shutting out our constituents," Canipe added.. "We're meeting with them one on one to discuss health care reform."
Mail yourself some scary but harmless white powder, Brad. Make a big, showy scene. That’s the ticket.
It worked several times for your colleagues, and even for ol’ Slick himself.
It’d give Janet a chance to show up in full SWAT regalia, too. You just know she loves that kind of stuff.
duh /slap
Yep. Obviously we have and out of control government gone wild on our hands. When our representatives will not face the people. 2010 will be a bloodbath for the Democrats.
Ooooooh wow. Some congressmen had his life supposedly threatened.
Go cry to people like Rush Limbaugh, or Glenn Beck and the countless other conservatives whose lives and family have been threatened. Or how about the conservatives that have been assaulted.
Grow a pair. The only life anyone is going to go after is your political one.
..and fake voters
Bury them with letters and faxes folks. Bury them.
More manufactured drama.
When I was a high school teacher my life used to get threatened about once a month by either students or parents. You learn to live with it. Suck it up you liberal pussies, if you don't like the heat get out of the kitchen. Pretend you have Mr. Obama's chiseled pectorals.
Nonsense. It was just “end of life counseling”.
This is such an obvious set up.
Spoken like a true fake ... a fake, lying, wimpy, cowardly, lib congressthing with fake limp-wristed lying staffers.
I call bullshi'ite!
In reading that it comes across as that is just not the way people talk in honest situations.
This is their own doing this. Now they have an excuse not to come out in public and will use the telephone town meeting. That way they can answer what questions they want and not have any “MOB” feedback.
Yaaah...like ours are NOT..??!!
this is war...it is the war of the Democrats against the Baby Boom...who have paid into and now are poised to reap the “benefits” of Social Security and Medicare...it is the war of those who created these fraudulent programs ...which have fleeced 45 years of taxes from the Baby Boom..and never intended to grant them the “benefits” they were conned into allowing to be withheld from their paychecks. It is a personal war...because by hastening them to their graves...they intend to fleece their descendants of their estates.
“...a liar., a thief and a coward.”
The very definition of a politician.
Hey Congressman, welcome to the ranks of the unemployed.
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