Florida man gets 18 months in prison for threats to Pelosi, AOC

[L. Coyote]

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/01/florida-man-gets-18-months-in-prison-for-threats-to-pelosi-aoc-00022374

A Florida man was sentenced Friday to a year and a half in federal prison for issuing a series of crude and violent threats to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Paul Hoeffer, 60, of Palm Beach Gardens, received the sentence at a hearing in Fort Pierce, Fla., after pleading guilty to three felony counts of making interstate threats against Pelosi (D-Calif.), Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and a prominent prosecutor in Chicago, Kim Foxx, court records show.

Prosecutors had asked U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon for a sentence of about 3½ years in prison for Hoeffer. His defense asked for leniency, noting that he was recently diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer.

Hoeffer admitted that in March 2019 he left a vulgar voice mail message at Pelosi’s office, threatening to cut her head off “Jihadist style” and warning her to “sleep with one eye open.”

Hoeffer also conceded that around the same time he left a series of threatening messages for Foxx, who is Black, including a racial slur. “Bullets are going to rattle your fucking brain,” one message said.

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[llashram]

1. good

on both counts. Heart full of hate

[North Shore Chicago]

2. He has an aggressive type of cancer.

Boo fucking hoo.

What a pathetic man.

[Botany]

3. Let him die in prison.

I'm sure that the good folks at Fox News, InfoWars, Russian and or right wing trolls on Facebook,
nut job web sites and the hate talkers on radio/TV will visit him in the prison hospital.

[North Shore Chicago]

4. x 1000

[Botany]

5. His brain is so packed with hate and lies from the right that he really thinks O.A.C. & the Speaker

... are "the enemy" of the people he sees as real Americans. Let him die.

[North Shore Chicago]

6. A decade ago,

I would have rarely wished a horrific death to these violent nincompoops. Yes, here I am.

[Botany]

9. I dealt with some of "those people" on election day 2020 in OH

Nasty, racist, and paranoid a-holes looking for a fight because Donny had given
them permission to be that way.

[Tommymac]

16. I dealt with some of them in 2004 in Pittsburgh.

I was in charge of keeping the Democratic Poll watchers fed on election day in Nov 2004.

I went to over 20 polling locations to deliver food, and at at least 3 of them there were men standing just outside the 100 foot limit holding Anti-Kerry Swiftboat signs and haranguing anyone who walked past them trying to get to the polls with extremely abusive and nasty RW anti-lib bullshit.

They have been among us for generations, at least since Nixon.

[ck4829]

8. And yet he nodded and cheered with the people who claim cancer is a punishment from God

to smite the sinners.

Not his cancer though, I'm sure.

[North Shore Chicago]

10. Fucking idiot

A violent and sick idiot. To think, he had/had a mom, a sister perhaps, aunts, female cousins etc.....Bet his favorite teacher growing up is a female.

This hatred and violent rhetoric against females really needs to be stopped. If cancer is going to stop this guy, so be it.

[usaf-vet]

15. Mean while the taxpayer will be paying for his health care.

[ck4829]

7. Going to prison to own the libs

[3Hotdogs]

20. ---the things ya gotta do for freedom.

[DownriverDem]

11. When I see folks say they are moving

to Florida and or Arizona, I can't help wonder if they care about the politics going on there. It matters to me, but I guess it doesn't matter to them.

[L. Coyote]

12. A lot of people move at retirement for the weather and for the taxation differences.

Doctors may even tell people with heart problems to not spend the winter in cold climates.

[Tree-Hugger]

13. I know people moving FOR the politics

Two families. Conservatives. Both live in blue Northeast states and are heading to Florida later this year. They say that their state governments are too "restrictive." They are moving because Florida will be less restrictive of their "freedoms." Naturally, parties in both families are Covid deniers and anti-vax. It's their anti-vax position that is the real driver here. Both distrust the government, but the adults in one family are super paranoid about the government. It's almost laughable, but one of those adults works on a high level science field FOR the U.S. government.

[Tommymac]

17. You should report them. Anti vaxxers have no business working on a scientific project. nt

[Evolve Dammit]

21. It's everywhere. Just look at the last election numbers

[CaptainTruth]

23. I moved to FL & I'm happy to bring my Dem votes with me.

I also helped a couple Republican neighbors see what a disaster Trump was, & they voted for Biden. They even asked me if I had an extra Biden sign for their yard, which I gladly gave to them.

Remember, DeSantis won by just 0.4%, less than 32,500 votes out of 8+ million cast. So people who care about politics in FL *should* move here because if our population had just 0.15% more Democrats, & they all voted, DeSantis would not be our governor.

[iluvtennis]

14. The POS should have received more than 18 months in prison.

[CaptainTruth]

18. When I see "Florida man" I always hope it's Trump.

[Zorro]

19. Reportedly a registered Democrat

An obvious ratfucker.

[Traildogbob]

22. Well this Judge

Just ruined the chances of moving up to a higher court. I am certain the Grahams. Cruz’s, Hawleys, Cottens and Blackburns will be outraged at the weak on crime sentencing here. Graham will need a follow up performance.
(Should I put in a sarcasm thing here)
These endless death threats need to have much more deterrence. Hoping his loses all weapons privileges subject to random searches of his dwelling.

[Fla Dem]

24. For some reason, the media rarely provides a picture of a criminal white guy.

But a minority, their pictures is all over the place.

So I, after a great search, am posting mr Hoeffers image here.

[LuckyCharms]

25. His punishment is too harsh...I mean it's not like

he was selling loose cigarettes on the street, or walking home at night wearing a hoodie.



Sorry, I'm in a horrible fucking mood and I don't understand why these wastes of space are getting such light sentences.

I have something I need to say about shit like this, but I'd get banned.

[KS Toronado]

26. Out of curiosity

how many Democrat leaning people have been caught making death threats?
Is it 100% reQublicOns doing it?