Posted on 10/03/2018 7:15:44 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The wife of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Wednesday penned an open letter directed at Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), appearing to blame the Democrat for the threats and protests her husband has faced this week.
Kelley Paul wrote in an op-ed published on CNN that her husband was "besieged at the airport by activists." She indicated that they shouted at the senator, stuck their middle fingers in his face and prevented him from moving to his destination.
She wrote that the protesters had heeded Booker's advice from July in which he urged supporters to "get up in the face of some congresspeople" rather than being passive about issues they care about.
Booker, who had previously called for protesters to "lead with love" when confronting officials, later walked back his comments.
"I would call on you to retract your statement," Kelley Paul wrote Wednesday. "I would call on you to condemn violence, the leaking of elected officials' personal addresses (our address was leaked from a Senate directory given only to senators), and the intimidation and threats that are being hurled at them and their families."
Kelley Paul appealed to Booker's sense of bipartisanship, noting that the Democrat worked with her husband on criminal justice reform bills.
Booker's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Booker's comments from July drew extra attention among conservatives, as they came a short time after Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) stirred controversy for urging her supporters to confront Trump administration officials in public spaces.
Rand Paul has endured violence and threats over the course of the last 18 months, his wife noted. The Kentucky senator was present at a congressional baseball practice last year when a gunman opened fire, seriously wounding Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.).
The Pauls' neighbor was sentenced to 30 days in prison earlier this year after he assaulted Rand Paul in their yard. The senator suffered six broken ribs in the attack, and an x-ray found fluid buildup around his lungs.
Kelley Paul has been critical of the media coverage of the incident, noting that some mocked her husband.
Kelley Paul wrote Wednesday that law enforcement conducts additional patrols around her house, and she keeps a loaded gun near her bed as a result of the threats against her husband.
Protesters and progressive activists have confronted several Republican senators in recent days as they travel through airports and other public spaces in an effort to plead with them to oppose Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) earlier Wednesday slammed the protests as "intimidation tactics" that he vowed would not prevent a vote on Kavanaugh.
Rand Paul needs to be escorted by the Kentucky chapter of Bikers For Missing Teeth.
We all know the meaning of being Borked.
I propose a new word, in honor of the monster herself, to be “Maxined” meaning to be stalked, harrassed, screamed at, physically blocked, followed, threatened, etc. When you hear of anyone who has been MAXINED, please use this term.
I like the way you think !
Booker needs to go to the hood and get what’s coming to him
Wait till some of them get a 45 or 38
Or a fist to the pussy ass face
They’ll run like the cowards they are
Dear Mrs. Paul, you cannot shame the shameless.
The path that they are on will not end well for them.
Didn’t Obama start the “get up in their face” BS ?
nothing ever happens to them. Ther friggin rioted and burned cars in DC and NONE of them were ever held to account.
They attack members of congress and the senate and none of them are ever arrested and when they get cut loose, they do it again and again.
“Leftist never think the tactics they use will ever be used against them”...…………
Wait until the shooting starts, they will run and hide of that I have no doubt. They are asking for a war and will soon get it, the Deplorables have just about had enough.
funny that Conserviatives are not calling out leftist by naming the leftist behavior BULLYING
Bullying is what leftist are doing.
Name it over and over.
Leftist Bullies are trying to scare and beat up people who do not do what they want.
Even that Clanton, convicted of 7 aggravated assaults with grevious bodily injury avoided jail.
They are going to pick the wrong victim or group at some point that will fight back.
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