Police respond to Kathy Miller's home over death threats after racism remarks

[TexasTowelie]

BOARDMAN -- Kathy Miller, who resigned as Donald Trump’s Mahoning County chairwoman and a Republican member of the Electoral College after making “inappropriate” remarks about black Americans and racism, called police to report a threat made against her.

Miller, a former township trustee, called police to her Boardman residence on Creston Drive around 9:20 p.m. Saturday for a specific text message that read: “I know where you live and you will pay for your comments you {expletive},” according to a report.

She told police she has been receiving unwanted texts and calls from a variety of numbers, making threats against her life and property. The threats, she believes, are related to her controversial statement to The Guardian about racism that was published last Thursday.

In a text message Wednesday to The Vindicator, Miller said she received harassing phone calls, text messages, emails and letters.

- See more at: http://www.vindy.com/news/2016/sep/28/police-respond-kathy-millers-home-over-death-threa/

[font color=330099]The death threats (if true) are inexcusable, but she brought a lot of this upon herself.[/font]

[Moostache]

1. DEATH threats and threats of vandalism are never ok...

However, those things are NOT infringements on her First Amendment rights...too frequently people confuse consequences with rights.

That does NOT excuse the cowardly death threats or harassment, but don't let any one conflate it with government supers sion of free speech either.

[riversedge]

2. I hope she is safe and glad she resigned. it was the right thing to do. Death threats are NEVER

acceptable.

[Shrike47]

3. Death threats aren't OK, no matter how stupid and racist she is.

When they go low, we go high.

[CincyDem]

4. Sorry TT, we usually agree but there is no "brought [it] upon herself"

[TexasTowelie]

5. It's okay for us to disagree

and my comment was intended to mean that she brought a lot of the derisive remarks back onto herself because of her statements. When someone takes a public position as she has then it would be unusual for blow-back not to occur. I don't condone it and my reaction would be to shake my head and walk away from it. From there, I'll keep my mouth shut just as Miller should have done herself.

[CincyDem]

6. yep.

She earned a chit ton of blow-back, that's for sure. You can't spew that much hate in such a banal, run of the mill conversational way and not have people react. And her public position would only make that more likely.

And with 25k+ posts, I'm sure betting that keeping your mouth shut is just a figure of speech. haha. couldn't resist.

have a good one.

BTW - when you talk about reactions to her comments...how about the face of the interviewer. He was from the Guardian I think of maybe some Australian news service. His look was priceless when she said there was no racism before BHO.

[No Vested Interest]

7. I wonder how her real estate business is doing these days. nt