Posted on 07/25/2011 12:40:41 PM PDT by MissesBush
Staffers at Americans for Tax Reform, the anti-tax group run by conservative activist Grover Norquist, evacuated their building Monday morning after a bomb threat was called in, according to authorities.
A spokesman for the Washington D.C. police department, Anthony Clay, confirmed to The Daily Caller that officers from the explosive ordnance division were called to the building that houses the organization’s D.C. offices shortly after 9 a.m.
The employees have since been allowed to return to work, another officer told TheDC from the scene.
No explosives were found, the officer said. Police had shut down 12th Street in Washington near ATR’s offices.
“The police are conducting an investigation,” said John Kartch, a spokesman for ATR, in an email.
Norquist and his group’s Taxpayer Protection Pledge have been in the news with Congress wrestling over raising the country’s debt limit. The ATR pledge is a commitment by candidates and elected officials that they will oppose and vote against any tax increases.
It has come into focus as the Democrats push for revenue increases as part of a deficit reduction package. Norquist has had to defend the pledge from people who say it “gets in the way of a deal to allow a debt ceiling increase,” he wrote in the New York Times last week.
Also in D.C on Monday, police investigated a suspicious package found at the Canadian Embassy
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/25/americans-for-tax-reform-evacuated-after-bomb-threat/#ixzz1T99dVdk3
More tolerance from the left.
Probably traceable back to the office of a RINO
Must be those White Christian Terrorists that we keep
hearing about. /sarc
Norquist is the idiot who says allowing the Bush Tax Cuts to expire is not a Tax increase. Another Inside the beltway Hack. He has lost All credibility.
The Muslims will be mad. Norquist is one of their greatest champions in DC.
Norquist is threatening himself?
With all the media hate going out at Christians and anti-socialists due to the Norway bomber, the Leftists are all whipped up into a killin’ frenzy. Also, Obama’s and the media’s effort to raise taxes via threats of National default has backfired on his radical...self.
The Muslims will be mad. Norquist is one of their greatest champions in DC.
That’s because he’s married to Muslim
probably a militant anti-budget cut group like they’ve got in the U.K.
Are all the bugs in place? I'd have the office 'swept' by a pro.
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