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Jokerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-25-10 03:01 PM
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Two Indiana congressmen report threat calls to offices
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Source: WTHR Indianapolis

Washington - The offices of two Indiana Democratic congressmen say they've received threatening phone calls in the days surrounding passage of the federal health care overhaul.

Baron Hill spokeswoman Katie Moreau said Thursday she couldn't give details of the threats or specify how many such calls had been received. She said they were a small percentage of the mostly supportive calls to the Democratic congressman since Sunday's House vote.

Congressman Andre Carson's Indianapolis office, meanwhile, received a couple of troubling calls over the weekend that spokesman Justin Ohlemiller described as racially motivated. Carson is black.


Read more: http://www.wthr.com/global/story.asp?s=12204325



True to form, the story talks more about republicans who are supposedly being threatened.

Also true to form, the first reader comment says, "they had it coming".
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