Note to Heller: Don't take away my health care or you die

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Source: The Nevada Independent

A note taped to Sen. Dean Heller’s Senate office was from someone asserting that he would lose his health care if the key senator voted for the repeal bill and that he would die if that happened and would take Heller with him, a law enforcement source said.

Metro Police has declined to disclose the contents of the note, which was taped to Heller’s office door at the Sunset Road office. But I have learned it apparently came from someone who wants Heller to vote against the current health care measure.

Despite some reports, Heller’s office was not burglarized, but the suspect appears to have gained access illegally to the complex.

The incident occurred on Sunday at 9:06 a.m., the police reported. “The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department received a call from an alarm company representative reporting a burglary alarm at the main entrance of an office building where Senator Dean Heller’s office is located,” the police statement said. “The preliminary investigation by patrol officers determined that a burglary did not occur to the main building or to Senator Heller’s office. However, a threatening note addressed to Senator Heller was discovered near the door to his office. Officers took a report for Threatening or Obscene Letters or Writing (NRS 207.180). The LVMPD has an on-going investigation into this incident.”

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. That person speaks for many voters.

[dalton99a]

12. No kidding

[CountAllVotes]

2. The People are growing weary of this game

and now notes are appearing on doors.

What next dare one ask?

[SharonClark]

14. I hope not more stupid threats like this one.

[atreides1]

15. It's not stupid, it's a sign of desperation

The note was written by someone under a lot of stress, who is deathly afraid of losing their access to health care! Someone who realizes that the politicians in charge don't give a tinkers damn about the people who will lose health care and die, elderly, children, it doesn't matter to the Republicans or Trump!

Desperate people are capable of doing desperate things...Pandora's box has been open and there doesn't seem to be any way to close it!

[Solly Mack]

17. I agree. It was desperation. And the GOP keeps creating desperate people.

Some of the very same people in government who claim to abhor violence (directed at themselves mainly) don't seem to mind - or see the connection - between violence directed at them and the violence they cause with their legislation.

No matter how you cut it, taking away people's health care is an act of violence.

Cutting or gutting necessary safety nets is an act of violence against someone.

They go without food, or shelter, or heat, or health care - all things they can die without.

How is that not violent?

Because it's legal? How wonderful to be able to direct violence at so many and then hide behind the claim that it was legal to do so.

I'm not talking the deranged or racists who go on shooting sprees and go after members of government.

I'm talking everyday Americans pushed to the limit by the cruelty and callous disregard of some in government. They are backed into the corner and the hits keep coming - they lash out in desperation.

Yeah, it's ugly.

Yeah, violence is never the answer.

But that's just it - violence is never the answer. Not even when it's called the law.

[rtracey]

18. says who?

Who said it was a desperate person losing their healthcare, I tend to believe that in this Bullshit GOP controlled country, one can be a GOP operative planting it, just to say "see, this must be a democrat, threatening our Senator". Yes, I know, I have no proof, and yes I know many are desperate, but I picture someone like O'Keefe doing this.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Apparently they do not realize the gravity and seriousness of health care

for the average person. They are so far out of touch and their heads are even further up their asses than I previously thought. They are stupid, thoughtless, greedy sub-humans.

[DK504]

4. Time to push for repealing THEIR healthcare.

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. +1000000!

[Iggo]

5. Sounds like one of Heller's aides is in big trouble.

[justhanginon]

6. I am really surprised that this has not happened before now. When

congress enacts legislation which has the direct effect of a loved one losing their healthcare and thereby causing needless pain and suffering or even death and combine it with the number of guns in this country you know that at some point this is going to be a sad reality for our country. The reality that, because of a lack of political courage to vote for legislation that helps millions obtain health insurance instead of huge tax cuts for a few that already have more money than god, the end result can only be tragic on both sides. I hate to see the time when elected officials wiil need full time bodyguards for both themselves and their families.

[babydollhead]

7. how about this one: Don't take away our planet, or we die

dont take away clean water,bees, clean energy, common decency, compassion, ingenuity,OR WE ALL DIE.
what about a post card campaign?

[moonseller66]

8. Republicans. It's not YOUR planet!

Years ago the seeming military and political intelligentsia believed "we" (meaning they) could survive a limited nuclear war. Stories were told of bunkers in the hills of West Va. and elsewhere that were stocked with years of food and essentials so those very same intelligentsia would survive to "restore normalcy and order" to the land.

I've come to suspect there may now be similar "bunkers" over or near the world's great aquifers in South America (see Bush/Cheney buying land in S.A.) that will allow the descendants of those nuke survivors to live through " a limited global environmental collapse" and years of pollution and famine until they and their families and friends can emerge to (rule) a Great New World.

The Republican Politicians and Corporate Leaders are really, truly the Slumlords of America today.

[Dave Starsky]

10. When you leave people with nothing...

You leave them with nothing to lose.

What is there about this simple concept that Republicans don't understand?

It's almost like Republicans got this idea (wonder where they got it) that liberals are weak and don't have guns and that they will just fold over when the eventual edict comes that they and their children are just going to have to die horribly.

[itcfish]

11. Probably One of his Staffers

Wrote it for him to get some sympathy. I don't put anything past them.

[dalton99a]

13. Not all 32 million will go gently into that good night

after the GOP yanks their insurance

[TexasBushwhacker]

19. I certainly hope not

Good old squeaky wheel and all that jazz.

[NickB79]

16. The GOP has to realize that many of their own members will be horribly hurt if the ACA disappears

And these are the same members who Donald Trump urged to use "2nd Amendment solutions" to get their way in politics.