Arizona Democrats Ask Republicans To Denounce A Threat Of Violence By Rally Goer
Arizona Democrats want Republicans to denounce the threat of violence made against Democratic lawmakers at a rally at the state capitol in Phoenix this week.
The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee says a participant at Monday’s “Patriot's Day Rally” announced in a speech to the crowd people should vote Democrats out of office and he added ”I don’t want to have to shoot them again.”
The campaign committee has released a written statement. It said “Arizona has already seen acts of violence against our elected officials. Threats made to directly harm members of office should never be tolerated and must be taken with the utmost gravity." The news release said "silence of legislative Republicans is chilling and should not be seen as a simple matter of disagreement between political ideologies.”
Former Maricopa County Democratic Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox was shot and wounded by a disgruntled constituent in 1997 and Arizona Democratic Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was seriously wounded during a shooting at a Tucson area supermarket during a "meet and greet" event in 2011.
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