{"id":25363,"date":"2010-03-26T06:17:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T06:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/03\/26\/minnesota-reps-threatened-over\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T06:17:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T06:17:58","slug":"minnesota-reps-threatened-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/minnesota-reps-threatened-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Reps Threatened over Health Insurance Reform Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Tea Party Terrorists (TPT) have threatened and\/or harassed Democratic Congressional Representatives  Betty McCollum and Keith Ellison because of their votes on health insurance reform.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nMcCollum is said to have recieved &#8220;vulgar&#8221; mail, and a gasoline soaked fragment of an American flag.  One letter included this description of what would happen to the Congresswoman:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;I will hound you. I will intimidate you and your family. I will scream at you. I will re-write your history. I will physically out strong-arm you. I will shame you, your friends, and your family.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although the letter was not signed, it was clearly written by one of Michele Bachmann&#8217;s followers.<\/p>\n<p>Representative Ellison received a threatening letter and a threatenting voice mail.  Details are not available.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wcco.com\/politics\/health.vote.threats.2.1590313.html\"><br \/>\nDetails here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Tea Party Terrorists (TPT) have threatened and\/or harassed Democratic Congressional Representatives Betty McCollum and Keith Ellison because of their votes on health insurance reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[306],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6B5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}