A Man Was Arrested For Threatening A Republican Who Voted for Democrats' Infrastructure Plan

[TexasTowelie]

WASHINGTON — A recent vote for President Joe Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure bill has developed into a controversial, life-threatening exercise for Rep. Andrew Garbarino, a New York Republican who broke with his party to support the legislation.

Staff at Garbarino’s offices have been flooded with phone calls and death threats targeting the Congress member following the vote, according to a person familiar with the office. Local authorities have also spoken to the Garbarino about increased patrols near his district office.

Nassau Police confirmed that Kenneth Gasper was arrested and charged with aggravated harassment for a death threat he made to Garbarino, according to Detective Lt. Richard LeBrun.

“It’s amazing people want to kill me over paving roads and clean water,” Garbarino told BuzzFeed News. “The misinformation out there about this bill is so bad that I’m getting death threats.”

Read more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kadiagoba/garbarino-house-republicans-biden-infrastructure-plan

[Irish_Dem]

1. The GOP hates it when you try to save their lives or give them a better country.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

2. This is who rethuglican voters are... get used to seeing more of this.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

4. Never get used to it, prosecute it mightily.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

3. So disturbing on so many levels. A fraction of the populace even knew such officials

existed before fascism reared its ugliness taking so many vile shapes.

I blame in part social media for permitting fascism to take root and flourish on their platforms, all for fun and profit, cause nothing is as profitable as the digital currency of anger hate fear.

Without a mass audience at the masses fingertips how could the key ingredients be spread so far and wide and with such rapidity?

This is yet another form of attack on democracy, domestic terrorism, and justice must come down hard on the terrorists.

[Midnight Writer]

5. You can't clean up a leak without turning off the spigot.

RW politicians and media are stridently pushing for "punishing" the heretics.

They are getting financial support to do this.

You can arrest some of the fools who are acting out, but until the instigators behave, the problem will grow.

[samplegirl]

6. Years and years of this

yet people keep voting more of these people into office! The greed deepens more and more and the
disease grows. It really is disheartening as if this was a democrat media would never shut up!

[bucolic_frolic]

7. They should fine these miscreants heavily

$$$$$$$$$$$ is the only thing they understand. If you jail them they enjoy the publicity and become media heroes. Fine them.

[2naSalit]

8. So that guy gets arrested for threatening...

A repug but what about the many who have been threatening Democrats all this time?