Man arrested after threats to Rep. Jim McDermott: 'I'll kill his family'

[cali]

By Warren Richey, Staff writer / January 12, 2011

A Palm Springs, Calif., man was arrested on Wednesday on a federal charge that he threatened to kill Rep. James McDermott (D) of Washington because of the congressman’s stance in last month’s debate over whether to extend the Bush tax cuts.



FBI agents arrested Charles Turner Habermann for making two late-night cell phone calls to the congressman’s Seattle office Dec. 9. According to an FBI affidavit, Mr. Habermann has a history of contacting elected officials and received a warning from California law enforcement officials in March 2010.

“Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, or George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, if any of them had ever met Jim McDermott, they would all blow his brains out. They’d shoot him in the head,” Mr. Habermann, 32, allegedly said in a recorded voice mail message on Mr. McDermott’s office telephone.

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http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0112/Man-arrested-after-threats-to-Rep.-Jim-McDermott-I-ll-kill-his-family

[NuclearDem]

1. And the copycats are already coming out...

Glad they caught this guy.

[old mark]

2. K&R-Right wing politics as usual-we are for freedom and if you don't do what we want

we will kill you.


mark

[tavalon]

3. I'm glad they arrested the man

I don't want to lose my Representative. He's a good egg. Honestly, even if my Rep. were Boehner, I want this crap to stop, now!