Report: N.H. Republican bragged about gun, warned unions ‘better not F#%k with me’

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story
By Stephen C. Webster

In an email obtained by Mother Jones magazine, a New Hampshire Republican brags about learning how to fire a .50 caliber machine gun, then added that labor unions -- which traditionally support Democrats -- "better not F#%k with me again!!!"

That email was allegedly written by New Hampshire Representative Lynne Ferrari Blankenbeker, who reportedly ignored requests for comment from reporter Andy Kroll.

Blankenbeker, a military veteran, reportedly wrote the email after a training session with the army at Fort Dix. The full quote reads: "Today I got to be the gunner which was fun. The .50 cal is quite a gun! I was never ascared of the unions but they better not F#%k with me again!!! Just saying."

Reached by Raw Story, Blankenbeker appeared to take issue with Mother Jones's headline, which read, "NH GOP Politician to Unions: 'Better Not F#%k with Me' Or I'll Shoot."

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/22/email-n-h-republican-bragged-about-gun-warned-unions-better-not-fk-with-me/

[iwishiwas]

1. "ascared" where did this dude learn to think and write??

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. "I was never ascared..." Is that a legitimate NH regionalism

or is it just fucking ignorant?

[SpiralHawk]

3. Ayyyyuuup - for Republicon Family Cesspool Values types

Republicons who are intent on destroying America and democracy often use such lameass ignorant terms...

[Bluerthanblue]

6. It's not one I've ever heard-

and I've heard quite a few.

:shrug:

sounds like someone trying to sound like "just folks" to me, and failing miserably.

[sarge43]

7. Fucking ignorant.

She's a flatlander and arriviste; she's also channeling Palin.

That "got to be the gunner" goosed the crap detector, too. WTF is a Navy reserve nurse doing slutting around on an Army gunnery range?

One other thing, the NH legg is the third largest legislative body in the world. Throw a rock in NH and you'll be sure to hit a legg critter, past or present. It's almost impossible not to be one.

She's a small fish in a big pond in a small state, trying to make a splash.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. That dude is a woman. And a lawyer. Just like Mee-shellle

Lynne Ferrari Blankenbeker is 46 years old and has lived in Concord with her family since 2004. She moved from the Upper Valley to Concord to attend Franklin Pierce Law Center, where she earned her JD degree. She has been a resident of New Hampshire since 1993.

She was raised in Florida and moved to Alabama in 1982 where she earned her BS degree in nursing. She joined the Air Force while in colleg...e and was commissioned into the Nurse Corps in 1986. In 1990 Lynne was deployed to the Middle East in support of Operation Desert Shield/Storm. After her tour, she returned home and started her family. She has one daughter, a senior at Concord High School. She took an 8 year break from military service while she was home with her daughter.

Lynne and her husband moved to NH because they felt it was the best place to raise their young family. She practiced nursing part-time at DHMC and was a Risk Manager for a DHA hospital until the move to Concord in 2004. In 2001 she returned to military service as a nurse in the Navy Reserves. In 2003 she was mobilized in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, caring for the injured soldiers and sailors. Currently, Lynne is a Commander and the CO of 2 medical units in MA. She also owns her own law practice where she focuses mainly on healthcare law and healthcare risk management consulting. She worked part-time at Concord Hospital until April 2009.

A veteran, she is a life-member of the VFW Post 1631 and the American Legion. She is the co-founder of the Central NH Republican Women's club and a member of the Concord Republican City Committee.

Issues:

Generally:

1) Against Big Government.

2) Fiscal Conservative. Does not support an Income Tax or a Sales Tax.

3) Would like to see local control of education.

4) Against a National Healthcare Plan.

5) Does not support a seat belt or helmet law.

6) Opposes the current NH law that allows minors to have
abortions without parental notification.

7) Pro Small Business

8) Supports the State's right to govern itself as
enumerated in the Constitution.

9) Dedicated to Veteran's issues

-Lynne is running in the special election for NH State Rep
in Merrimack District 11 (Concord area). She won the Republican primary with 87% of the vote. The general election is November 3rd. Her Democratic opponent has a long political history in Concord and has great name ID. Lynne needs enormous help getting her name out there.

-The liberals will be spending huge amounts of money from
their inherited trust funds to try to defeat Lynne. She is
depending on the generosity of people like you so she
can get her pro-liberty message out to the voters.

Please donate whatever you can afford to her campaign
at:

Lynne Blankenbeker
26 Mulberry Street
Concord, NH 03301

[Ikonoklast]

8. #5????? And she's a nurse???????

Good God, she's insane.

[Wait Wut]

11. My thoughts, as well.

More amazing, she was a Navy nurse taking care of wounded soldiers and she still thinks it's "fun" to shoot a .50 cal and threaten unions with violence. I guess seeing the human suffering first-hand didn't influence her fucked up sense of hatred.

[sarge43]

14. Don't assume she was a hands on care giver.

She could have been an admin ass at headquarters. She sounds like the type.

[Hangingon]

9. Too bad the Lady's exuberance over-rode her sense.

She should have know that no email stays private. They are free for anyone to take and bend. If I had the opportunity to fire a Ma Duece, I might email some friends and say something outrageous too. But then I am unelectable and unappointable.

[SpiralHawk]

10. A Republicon Flatlander carpetbagger.

She wants benefits for veterans? Ain't that socialism?

[sarge43]

13. The only reason she'd want vet bennies is she will be one.

It's only socialism when someone else is getting them. Remember McCain raving about socialized medicine? He's been getting free gov't med care all his life. Core Repug values; they work in hypocrisy the way Michelangelo worked in marble.

[HockeyMom]

5. Oh, but she is a LADY

just being a REPUBLICAN makes her a LADY. As a Union woman myself, I would have told her, SISTER, you can take your gun and shove where the sun doesn't shine. I could, as not a lady myself, get more specific and graphic, but choose not to on this site.

[spanone]

12. makes me want to fuck with him.

[awoke_in_2003]

15. I just googled her pic...

why do republican women always have crazy eyes?

[sarge43]

16. They're issued them when they register? n/t