Radio host resigns from Congress job after lockdown

[RamboLiberal]

Source: WSVN

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (WSVN) -- A conservative radio talk show host will not serve on the staff of a newly elected congressman, after her connection to a countywide school alert.

As a result of the investigation into a threat that lead to the lockdown of all schools in Broward County, Wednesday, Joyce Kaufman announced on her WFTL radio show, the following day, that she will step down as Chief of Staff to Republican U.S. Rep.-elect Allen West. "Last night, I called congressman-elect Allen West, and I told him I would not be able to accept the position of chief of staff for Congressional District 22," she said.

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According to sources, something Kaufman had said at a tea party rally, set someone off to write a threatening email to that station, early Wednesday morning. During that rally Kaufman said, "If ballots don't work, bullets will." MSNBC aired the clip on Rachel Maddow's TV show, where Maddow offered to introduce viewers to the new crop of conservatives entering office as a result of the Nov. 2 elections.

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According to sources close to the investigation into that threat, which forced the county-wide lockdown of Broward schools, libraries and other government buildings, the person who sent the email was motivated by hearing Kaufman's words on Maddow's show.

Adding to the concern over the threat, police said, shortly after the email was sent, the Pompano Beach radio station received a phone call from a woman who said her husband might go to a school and open fire with a gun. (She) claimed that her husband was going to respond to a school in Pembroke Pines and start shooting," said Pembroke Pines Police Captain Dan Rakofsky.



Read more: http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/21002720791522/

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Golly. Ms Kaufman sure did not mention that little tidbit when she announced she would not be

going to DC.
Must be a late-breaking piece of news..Rachel did not mention that on her show tonight.

[eilen]

19. I heard about the nutcase on the Randy Rhodes show

a few days ago. A lady called from Flori-duh and talked about this woman's incendiary language and how dangerous she was and how crack addled the decision was to make her his chief of staff.

[Hyper_Eye]

2. The comments on that article are terribly depressing. n/t

[sasha031]

3. you are so right,

[tomg]

4. They read like a

freeper hate-fest.

[Control-Z]

5. Ugh.

:puke:

[midnight]

6. This new breed is the breeding of generations of this mind thought.

Over the past several months leading up to our state wide election in Wisconsin. Some of our elected officials were greeted with tresspessars and packages coming to their personal residences....

[Gin]

9. the crazy gets the attention.....she is a female Limbaugh/Beck....the

crazier the words...the higher her ratings....she is playing just like the big boys now...what's next? a TV career!

[Doremus]

7. Yup, the author of that piece is a teabagger.

Misspellings, grammatical and punctuation errors galore.

[Doremus]

11. IT'S RACHEL'S FAULT!!11!

[AlbertCat]

16. IT'S RACHEL'S FAULT!!

Yes! Like the article implies, all those teabaggers that regularly watch the Rachel Maddow Show got fired up!



It works like this.... you have your puppets... and the strings that work them....and a stage.....

[aquart]

18. Oh, you noticed that, too.

An interesting WTF?

[Ian David]

8. See also: Let's List the violent attacks by the Right Wingers

See also: Let's List the violent attacks by the Right Wingers
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9389907

[Ian David]

10. On the plus side, they reap what they sew...

Tea Party Patriots Release Personal Phone Numbers, Emails Of Almost 100 Incoming GOP Reps
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/12/tea-party-patriots-releas_n_782963.html

[Kyad02]

12. Read the comments on the Florida news site if you can stomach them

The fascists are taking over. I live in a "blue" state and 99% of the people I deal with are right wing. They have won, they control the message, they control the politicians, they control the people. If it were not for the internet and my family I would have nowhere to express progressive or even middle of the road rational thought.

[ThoughtCriminal]

14. Welcome to our island of sanity!

There are way more liberals out there than you can notice. Right winger are just more visible for the same reason two year olds are.

[happygoluckytoyou]

13. Im going to hand out tanktops and shreadded wheat to the local militia

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

THEY SHOULD BE REGULAR AND HAVE BARE ARMS

[seafan]

15. More details in this link. Check out the Allen West quotes in the OP.

Here

There ought to be a way to recall this piece of work before he is sworn in as a U. S. Rep.


We are truly hurtling downward.

[Scurrilous]

17. K & R

:thumbsup:

[lunasun]

20. sorta like a jewish nazi? eeegads

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/11/11/2741718/jewish-gabber-who-called-pelosi-garbage-withdrawn-from-hill-post