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Authorities looking into threat against Texas Sen. Ted Cruz
The Hill ^ | 10/18/2013 | Alexander Bolton

Posted on 10/18/2013 5:56:17 PM PDT by markomalley

Law enforcement officials are investigating a threat against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who was vaulted into national prominence with his push to defund ObamaCare.

A person identifying himself as Troy Gilmore Jr., posted on Twitter Friday morning: “Take down Ted Cruz, at his home” and listed Cruz’s home address in Houston.

“What goes around comes around CRUZ!!” the person wrote.

The author of the threat uses the Twitter handle @ArmyVet54 and identifies himself as having served in the U.S. Army and Navy. Sean Rushton, Cruz’s spokesman, said, “We’re aware of it and have alerted the proper authorities.”

“I can’t comment further on security matters,” he said.

At about 5:30 pm on Friday, @ArmyVet54 posted another apparent threat, urging that Cruz “needs tobe [sic] taught a street wise [sic] lesson”.

The person posted Cruz's home address several other times this month and repeatedly used threatening language.

The apparent threats are not directed at any audience in particular because @ArmyVet54 does not have any Twitter followers. But a search of Cruz’s name on Twitter can find them.

The Capitol Police takes all threats to members of Congress seriously.

“We are looking into that matter,” said Officer Shennell Antrobus, a spokesman for the Capitol Police.

Donte Jamar Sims, a 22-year-old man living in North Carolina, was sentenced to six months in prison in May after he threatened over Twitter to kill President Obama during the 2012 Democratic National Convention.

In June, a judge sentenced Jarvis Britton, a 26-year old Alabama man, to a yearlong prison term after he threatened Obama over Twitter.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: armyvet54; capitolpolice; cruz; cruzthreatened; demagogicparty; facebookisthedevil; prayforted; safety; senator; teaparty; tedcruz; texas; threatened; threats; troygilmore; troygilmorejr; twitter; tx
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To: TheOldLady

YW yes, that’s all it takes. Just one little thingie that doesn’t belong and zappo, error page.


81 posted on 10/19/2013 8:38:41 PM PDT by Syncro ("So?" - -Andrew Breitbart --The King of All Media RIP Feb 1, 1969 – Mar 1, 2012)
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To: markomalley; 2ndDivisionVet; cripplecreek; kcvl; SunkenCiv
How many times do they have to tell you?

How many books must they write?

How many ways can they possibly explain it to you, before you get it?

THEY WANT YOU DEAD!

82 posted on 10/19/2013 8:44:37 PM PDT by Old Sarge (And Good Evening, Agent Smith, wherever you are...)
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To: markomalley

obviously, the left fears Cruz cause he will get 95% of the Hispanic vote! hey, didnt a Previous candidate get 95% of a minority’s vote 5/6 years ago?


83 posted on 10/19/2013 9:11:01 PM PDT by Cruz_West_Paul2016
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To: Cruz_West_Paul2016

With Hispanics “Free $hit” trumps race.


84 posted on 10/19/2013 9:11:41 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: markomalley

If any harm comes to Cruz, the rinos will pay heavily first!

The left will pay period.


85 posted on 10/20/2013 4:38:10 AM PDT by Randy Larsen (Aim small, Miss small.)
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To: cripplecreek

Twitter is a cesspool


86 posted on 10/20/2013 6:56:19 AM PDT by swpa_mom
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To: swpa_mom

Believe what you will but conservatives rule on twitter


87 posted on 10/20/2013 7:31:37 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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88 posted on 10/20/2013 8:54:02 AM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: markomalley

Probably a McCain lackey


89 posted on 10/20/2013 10:48:46 AM PDT by esoxmagnum ( Some hide in bunkers when there is trouble, others run towards the trouble.)
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To: Candor7

Morphing? They morphed long ago, at least a decade ago. Unions have been thugs since the 90’s.


90 posted on 10/20/2013 10:52:19 AM PDT by esoxmagnum ( Some hide in bunkers when there is trouble, others run towards the trouble.)
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To: markomalley
This is the guy. I wonder if he is a convert to Islame:

Meet Troy Gilmore Jr. – the man who wants to take down Ted Cruz

91 posted on 10/20/2013 11:30:10 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (What do we want? Time travel. When do we want it? It's irrelevant.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

So why is this clown wearing ACUs with a MARINES nametape? Can you say, “Stolen Valor”?


92 posted on 10/20/2013 3:27:15 PM PDT by OCCASparky (Steely-eyed killer of the deep.)
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To: OCCASparky
Oh no, to even suggest a thing why..


93 posted on 10/20/2013 3:49:43 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (What do we want? Time travel. When do we want it? It's irrelevant.)
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To: Viennacon

They don’t have far to drive. No wonder they’re so fond of the Arab Spring demoncracies. They, too, dream of crucifying all dissenters.


94 posted on 10/20/2013 11:08:18 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: markomalley

The left is morphing into a liberal fascist
movement whose thugs are cultivated and encouraged by the Obama administration and its thug in chief. This is a purposefully led evolution, not one wherein these thugs “just happen “ to be this way.

America has a difficult time realizing that we have a radical fascist culture poisoning our government and it is Obama’s task to bring this thuggish political criminal culture to fruition so that we have rioting and insurrection. There is nothing Obama would like more than to declare martial law and suspend all elections, virtually every federal department is armed and prepared to violate the People and the Constitution.

Even now,after all the jumped up, purposeful idiocy of the so called president, America cannot face the fact that it has elected a fascist, and the halls of patriot academe suggest that he be called a “coercive utopian.”

There will be a battle royal before we are shot of these thugs from the White Hut, and their little apparatchik thug operatives from ACORN and Obamacare “navigators”. Obama is preparing for his final Putsh in which he will subjugate the military and Congress and meanwhile, the MSM fiddles on like Nero in Rome. Obama is fast becomeing a dictator rather than a president of the Republic, a position for which he was unqualified.

Ted Cruz is a serious threat to these fascists and he needs our support and encouragement.

This is a very good read:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html


95 posted on 10/21/2013 4:23:28 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: tumblindice

“”””He and Sarah make them cuckoo for cocoa puffs!””””

Nobody can make these people cuckoo. That ship sailed long ago.


96 posted on 10/21/2013 7:57:15 AM PDT by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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To: Post5203

“”twitter and facebook are evil””

celebrities and 14 year old girls who feel they have to tell the whole world every move they make. “I just bought a pack of crackers from the vending machine” -43 pictures including the necesary ‘tounge-out selfie’.

Its stupid and ridiculous.

I see this individual as someone who has no life whatsoever and sits in front of that tube on all these social networks feeling important. They have no life, so they go on these sites and make themselves appear important. Its a sad existance to sit there like that... with a phone or a computer fixed to their face 24/7.
If this person ever went out of the house, I would picture a fat, lazy, ugly, socially awkward individual that cannot string two sentences together face to face but is 10 feet tall and bullet proof on the internet.


97 posted on 10/21/2013 8:13:55 AM PDT by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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To: manc

“”They are doing to him what they did to Sarah and Michelle Bachmann.””

With praise and cheerleading from the media.


98 posted on 10/21/2013 8:36:09 AM PDT by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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To: tsowellfan

If nobody posted this yet, here is the 0bama bootlickin’ brownshirt wearing NAZI’s Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/countdown543?fref=ts

I think he’s been huffin’ the fumes from the bunker oil for far too long.


99 posted on 10/21/2013 3:21:48 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Impeach 0bama)
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