Republican official who 'would have shot' Guardian reporter resigns

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Republican official who 'would have shot' Guardian reporter resigns

Karen Marshall steps down as head of outreach for Gallatin County Republican Women after remarks regarding Ben Jacobs’ assault by Greg Gianforte

Guardian staff
Wednesday 25 October 2017 22.23 BST

The Republican party official who advocated shooting a Guardian reporter has resigned from her position.

Karen Marshall, who headed outreach for the Gallatin County Republican Women, stepped down from that post, according to a Facebook posting. In a radio interview last week, Marshall said she “would have shot” the Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs, who was physically assaulted for asking Greg Gianforte about healthcare in May, as Gianforte ran for US Congress.

Jacobs asked Gianforte a question about the Congressional Budget Office’s score of a proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act the day before the Montana Republican was elected to Congress. Instead of answering the question, Gianforte slammed Jacobs to the ground, breaking his glasses, and then jumped on the Guardian reporter and started punching him.

The assault occurred in a room adjacent to a campaign event that was open to the public.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/25/karen-marshall-greg-gianforte-guardian-ben-jacobs

[SamKnause]

1. Now she will run for the house or senate.

Trump supporters will love her.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. They want us all dead, they have for a long time, the election of Obama put it on the

front burner.

Dead or deported, one of the other.

Splitting the country in two gives Putin the whole shooting match as they say, he rolls in and takes it all if we do that.

[KelleyKramer]

3. She was head of outreach? You can't make this stuff up!

So I guess they do outreach at the barrel of a gun