Gabrielle Giffords' Arizona shooting prompts resignations

[nadinbrzezinski]

A nasty battle between factions of Legislative District 20 Republicans and fears that it could turn violent in the wake of what happened in Tucson on Saturday prompted District Chairman Anthony Miller and several others to resign.

Miller, a 43-year-old Ahwatukee Foothills resident and former campaign worker for U.S. Sen. John McCain, was re-elected to a second one-year term last month. He said constant verbal attacks after that election and Internet blog posts by some local members with Tea Party ties made him worry about his family's safety.

In an e-mail sent a few hours after Saturday's massacre in Tucson that killed six and injured 14, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Miller told state Republican Party Chairman Randy Pullen he was quitting: "Today my wife of 20 yrs ask (sic) me do I think that my PCs (Precinct Committee members) will shoot at our home? So with this being said I am stepping down from LD20GOP Chairman...I will make a full statement on Monday."


Pullen was in Washington, D.C. and not available for comment, an employee in his office said. State party spokesman Matt Roberts said he could not discuss details of the district's disputes but, "Anthony has been a good Republican and was really involved in LD20."



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Ok folks, language has no meaning and we are all making this up... to the point that REPUBLICANS are resigning from Party Offices... nope, nothing to see here.

[Kurovski]

1. I think that's what's called "The terrorists winning".

But I don't have enough proof yet, so I'll just sit in this corner and be quiet...

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Yup... that is what it is

[enough]

10. Yes. Terrorism works. (nt)

[Poboy]

11. My first thought as well

[eleny]

2. Afraid for his family's safety because of emails from someone with "Tea Party ties"

Wow.

KR

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Don't have enough yet to say it

but this may be a Ft. Sumpter moment... egads. And in the modern sense it will be more bodies piling up, not gray and blue marching on a battlefield.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

5. South Carolina fired the first shot, yet they call it the War of Northern Aggression.

:wtf:

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Well the North came to invade the South you know

I fear that if my kafkaesque nightmares are coming to be... (This is a major development)... that soiree will be for the history books, and we will be busy with our own.

[Kurovski]

7. Sounds like something Luntz would pull out of his butter-buffed ass.

Is he that old? Mr. Montgomery Burns times three?

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Hmm no, what he is well, as much as it hurts to say it. a brilliant linguist

our side has a few, but refuses to go there... and I have yet to figure out why.

[Kurovski]

9. A master manipulator.

Maybe they trust people to figure things out on their own? That is a mistake, of course. Manipulating the public will always happen, may as well jump in to what's left of the vacuum.

Howard Dean comes sort of close, which is why he faced character assassination, IMO

[Kingofalldems]

12. Teabagging gun hicks at it again

[Selatius]

13. If they wanted to start a real war, they could park a car bomb in front of his house.

And then seed the crime scene with left wing reading material after the bomb explodes killing everybody inside. Even if it came out later that the evidence was planted, prior to that certain people will react impulsively and attack leftists.