GOP lawmaker once held a knife to Boehner's throat

[RandySF]

Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) once pinned former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) against a wall and held a knife to his throat during a heated debate about earmarks.

John Boehner told Politico about the incident in a new profile published Sunday. The former speaker described his difficulties in banning earmarks, or measures that funded projects in lawmaker’s home districts.

Boehner said that Young once pinned him against a wall in the House during an argument over earmarks, and that Young held a 10-inch knife to Boehner’s throat.
Boehner responded by staring Young in the eyes and saying, “F--- you.”

Young confirmed the account as “mostly true” to Politico, but pointed out that he and Boehner later became such good friends that Boehner was the best man at his wedding.

This isn’t the first time Young has been reported as brandishing a knife in the House; he reportedly pulled out a knife on the House floor in 1988 when a lawmaker introduced a bill that would have restricted logging in Alaska.


http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/357743-gop-lawmaker-once-held-a-knife-to-boehners-throat

[JI7]

1. what a fucked up party

[Stallion]

2. "I'll Cut You-Man"

[BainsBane]

3. On par with the caning of Charles Sumner

Only Brooks and Sumner were in opposite parties and arguing over the expansion of slavery.

[GoCubsGo]

4. I knew it was going to be him before I even opened this thread.

He sure does love his knife. A former college professor of mine left academia to head a program in one of the natural resources agencies several years ago. One day, he went to Young's office to discuss some issue. Young pulled out a huge knife, and started sharpening it in front of him. He did it in such a way as to intimidate my professor--or at least try to intimidate him. He wasn't intimidated. Young is a nutbag.

[Garrett78]

5. And yet he wasn't arrested. Not only that, he's still in Congress. What standards that party has.

[democratisphere]

6. Damn redumbliCONs think death threats are the answer to passing

their legislation. F'em?

[Leith]

7. Just What Kind of People ARE rethugs?!

I would not sit still for someone who held a knife to my throat, no matter what the "excuse" was. And Boehner was his best man at a later date?

That's not the kind of thing I could forgive or forget. Those assholes never bothered with the thin veneer of civilization. No wonder they are the way they are. They have not progressed beyond wild-eyed nomads of 10,000 years ago.