Threats Against Jeff Flake And Chuck Grassely Prompt Additional Security

[appalachiablue]

Source: Roll Call

By Katherine Tully-McManus, 1 hr. ago.

At least two key senators in the Brett Kavanaugh proceedings are under special protection due to threats. Multiple Capitol Police officers confirmed Friday that the teams of uniformed officers moving with Sens. Jeff Flake and Charles E. Grassley are in place due to both crowd control issues and threats against the senators.

Lawmakers in leadership positions receive full-time protective details from the Capitol Police, including the House speaker, majority and minority leaders of both the House and Senate, and the whips of both parties. Other members may receive added protection in response to specific threats, but otherwise spend much of their time outside the Capitol complex, including in their home districts, without bodyguards.

Flake and Grassley are not in leadership and do not usually move with their own Capitol Police protection. Flake spoke on the Senate floor earlier this week about threats against him.

"One man, somewhere in the country, called my office in Arizona and left a message saying that he was tired of my 'interrupting our President; and for the offense of allowing Dr. Ford to be heard -- for this offense, my family and I would be 'taken out.' I mention this with reluctance, but only to say that we have lit a match, my colleagues. The question is, do we appreciate how close the powder keg is?" Flake said Wednesday....

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Sen. Flake was confronted Friday morning by a sexual assault survivor who demanded that her story be heard.

Ana Maria Archila, 39, told him she is a sexual assault survivor, moments after he had announced his support for Kavanaugh.

"Don't look away from me! Look at me and tell me that it doesn't matter what happened to me, that you will let people like that go into the highest court of the land," Archila told Flake while he was in a Senate building elevator, blocking his movement towards the Judiciary Committee markup.



Sen. Flake confronted by sexual assault survivor today after he voted yes on the Kavanaugh vote.

After Flake says he'll vote yes to Kavanuagh: "That's what you're telling all women in America, that they don't matter. They should just keep it to themselves because if they have told the truth you're just going to help that man to power anyway."

*Video & Article,
https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a23508403/sexual-assault-survivors-confront-jeff-flake-brett-kavanaugh-vote/

Sept. 27, Protesters & counterprotesters at Senate hearing with Christine Blasey Ford.

[dhol82]

1. Why Grassley?

[appalachiablue]

3. He's committee head in charge of all procedure & the vote I think.

[dhol82]

6. But he's doing everything the right wing wants

That he was blocked today was not his fault.
Curious that anyone would want to take him out.

[erronis]

26. SOP. Make it look like your person is being attacked. Makes other threats less important.

The opposition is honing its messaging. The media is picking it up and delivering to the quivering masses.

Everyone is happy. Except the health of this democracy.

[rpannier]

5. Possibly one of two reasons

1. Target of opportunity. He chairs the committee, so to the true believer, he is just as bad. He delayed the hearings by one week.
2. I have seen a few stories (not sure if they are believable or not), that Grassley agreed to the FBI investigation before a full senate vote

of course, it could just be some disgruntled, crazed, random nut

[dhol82]

8. Randomized, disgruntled - check.

[alwaysinasnit]

7. Probably because some RWNJ feels that Grassley shouldn't have called on the White House

to do the FBI supplemental background check, instead of continuing to "plow through" to get KavaNut nomination. My best guess.

[dhol82]

9. That makes sense.

[Fred Sanders]

17. RWNJ on the hunt, as predicted seconds after Flake did the dirty deed to Republicans.

Anyway he doubting how Flake threw a wrench into the works from which the works may not recover is....wrong.

[a kennedy]

25. Because i'd Knock the guy off his pedestal

[DRoseDARs]

2. Dance with the one what brung ya...

Poor things. Conservatives, you made this beast, you can enjoy the bitter fruits of your labor.

[Fred Sanders]

21. I, for one, do not think death threats to anyone over politics is nothing.

An eye for an eye makes the world goes blind, or am I wrong?

[erronis]

27. I'm missing your jump to "death threats". Perhaps I don't understand all the whistles yet.

[DRoseDARs]

41. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind...

The notion that conditioning an entire segment of the population into being (simply) "deplorables" and then expecting there to be no consequences is beyond naive, it's delusional. And in time will prove deadly on a large scale. The Black community has been dealing with that nightmare for decades. Just ask the Germans or the Italians. Or the Rwandans and Burundi. Or the Bosnians, the Serbs, the Croats. Or any of the countless other cultures that became infected with this institutional and political disease. The Soviet Union cum Russia has watched and recognized what's happened on the political right in the US over the past few decades and would be damned if they didn't stoke the fires to try to get us to self-immolate. Putin *literally* went to school for that: Theories and methods of destabilizing the United States.

This self-confirmational bias people have of "Couldn't Happen Here" because they clap for Tinker Bell to make the sad thoughts go away is what allows it to happen. No, they made this beast, they can go choke on it. Regardless, we're all going to suffer the consequences for their shortsightedness, their hunger for power and short-term political gains.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. I'm not surprised. There's a lot of anger out here in real America regarding this whole thing...

They (the repugs) are fooling themselves as to the reality of how people are viewing this whole setup (a setup is all this is, to fool the American people no less). I know I'm angry, especially after I saw him lose his temper w/ DiFi and yell at her AND the crying. How pathetic can one be?

He got caught with his hand in the cookie jar once too many times and it's coming back to bite in the you know what.

[alwaysinasnit]

10. I can't help thinking that the Repugs might have brought this type of whacko crap on themselves by

(tacitly?) encouraging worship of the 2nd Amendment and the sense of entitlement by these RWNJ to use violence when things don't go their way. I don't think that the Congressional Repugs ever thought that this nastiness would be directed at them.

FWIW

[Iliyah]

11. Ya think they realize how Dr. Ford feels?

She has to pay for her and her family's security protection.

With all the hatred from RWers, LWers, and others, this country has become a dangerous place for people who decide one way or another, and if one faction doesn't like it, they threaten by ugly suggestions to do bodliy harm.

When you have politicians stating "2nd Amendments" and that asshole in the WH spewing violent hatred towards people who do not kiss his nasty arse.

We are citizens of The United States of America, in a Democracy people can have disagreements, but shit, this present government and the majority in congress SUCK.


Sad.

[appalachiablue]

15. Sad and dangerous. Hopefully they understand. Takes a lot for some

folks to feel any empathy, and depth, others not so much. Narcissists and sociopaths, other types are incapable.

[The Mouth]

32. If they *could* feel empathy

They probably wouldn't *BE* Republicans.

[meadowlark5]

12. The deplorables need to be rounded up

And housed securely in those FEMA camps they're so paranoid about. They are violent, deranged and unhinged.

[Gore1FL]

18. Can we just ship them to mexico and then build a wall? nt

[pazzyanne]

20. Why do we want to inflict our loonies on Mexico?

They already have to put up with tRump and his crap!

[Gore1FL]

38. Good point! The Gulf of Mexico, maybe? nt

[Chrysanthemum]

44. How about Antarctica? NT

[bdamomma]

24. and they have guns

unlike us who have pot! not to be funny but true. The anger is being perpetrated by this POS Don the Con. It is palpable.

[meadowlark5]

28. Look at what the angey scarecrow Ann Coulter tweeted

Link to tweet

People were reporting her and tagging the FBI 😆 she's such a ghoul.

[dhol82]

31. They took down the page.

[meadowlark5]

35. No kidding?

I was just reading it and was wondering how so many people reported her and it was still up. I hope the FBI calls her.

What she said was if the GOP Senators didn't vote to confirm Cavanaugh this morning they better have armed guards and bulletproof vests tonight.

[dhol82]

37. Interesting

Yeah said, “That page does not exist.”

[Raven123]

13. Protection? Why don't they just carry Huns?

Isn't that their answer to threats?

[Raven123]

14. Make that guns, but Huns might work

[Fred Sanders]

16. There is an edit post button...

[Raven123]

23. Thanks.

[Gore1FL]

19. Carrying Guns is probably a better idea than carrying Huns

They get heavy after a while; don't get me started on the mounted ones!

[Fred Sanders]

22. Carry Huns, not guns...catchy!

[erronis]

29. You both are having way too much fun with this. Huns/guns. Bared arms?

[dhol82]

34. Oooooh, sounds sexy.

But, I would go for bare arms!

[left-of-center2012]

30. Your 'source' says Roll Call, but your link is MSN?

[appalachiablue]

40. The article is by Roll Call, it's posted from my MSN homepage News.

[amcgrath]

33. Republicans don't do irony do they?

Flake/Grassley are receiving death threats for failing to install a candidate, the reason republicans are so eager to have him installed?
He’s pro life

[dhol82]

36. Yeah, go figure.

[Bayard]

39. I called Flake's office today

I thanked him for getting a real investigation going, and encouraged him to keep doing good works.

I think if he gets enough pats on the back for standing up, it will be harder for him to vote to confirm.

[left-of-center2012]

42. Here's the Roll Call link

https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/threats-jeff-flake-chuck-grassley-prompt-additional-security

[geretogo]

43. Why is there never any death threats on his employers , Charles and David Koch ? These two Tyrants

are going to turn this country into a Venezuela .

[Doitnow]

45. By letting 45 do all the things he does, the RePigs have encouraged the climate of violence. How

do they like it now? What goes around comes around!!!

[Midnight Writer]

46. Is there a GoFundMe to help pay for their security?