1-14-2011
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Detectives investigating the shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona last weekend are considering a connection to California Sen. Leland Yee, who received death threats for criticizing former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin last year.
Yee, D-San Francisco, received calls on Monday from sheriff's detectives in Pima County, Ariz., where Giffords was among 19 people shot outside a Safeway store. Six people died in the shooting but Giffords, believed to be the target, survived.
"We haven't been updated on if there's a connection," Yee's spokesman Adam Keigwin said today.
Keigwin said Yee's office received threats relevant to Giffords' investigation in April 2010, when the senator helped reveal that officials at California State University, Stanislaus shredded documents related to Palin's contract fees as a keynote speaker.
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/san_francisco&id=7897868Pima County detectives are investigating if some death threats received by fax this spring by a California state senator might be connected to the Tucson shooting spree that left six dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords critically wounded.
A Pima County detective called Sen. Leland Yee's chief of staff on Monday to inquire about some racist faxes Yee received in March or April after he checked into payments made by a California state university to Sarah Palin for a speaking engagement.
Adam Keigwin, Yee's top aide, said he was surprised by the detective's call.
"I'm not certain if there is a definite connection" between the threats received by Yee and the Giffords case, Keigwin said. "He referenced that they are seeing similar faxes in their investigation. I think it has similar terminology. I don't know for sure, but he said they are getting very similar faxes."
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