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Canoe52

(2,963 posts)
Tue Apr 1, 2014, 04:52 AM Apr 2014

Designate January 28, as "Throw a Reporter 'Off This F---ing Balcony' Day"

Mr. "Tough Guy" Michael Grimm is now taking aim at Bill Maher. Saying he won't be "bullied" by Maher???

So someone has started a nice petition on the We the People site for our "friend" (what's in a name) Grimm.

To sign the petition go to https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/designate-january-28-annually-throw-reporter-f-ing-balcony-day/6KHctv8F

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On Jan. 28, 2014, Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY-11) issued a direct verbal threat to a reporter inside the Capitol building, saying “I’ll break you in half” and “throw you off this f---ing balcony,” a violation of D.C. law (DC Code, Div. IV, Title 22, Subtitle I, Ch. 4, § 22-407).

Congress has taken no punitive action against him. By its inaction, the US Congress is condoning a Congressperson’s right to threaten to kill average Americans. To publicly clarify their inaction, we request Congress designate January 28, annually, as “Throw a Reporter “Off This F---ing Balcony” Day” which allows, each Congressperson to threaten to do bodily harm up to and including death threats to any one (1) reporter or other American citizen or resident alien who displeases the Congressperson.

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