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(48,975 posts) Wed Sep 26, 2018, 08:41 PM Sep 2018

Flake: My office received call saying my family would be 'taken out' over Kavanaugh stance [View all]

Source: The Hill

GOP Sen. Jeff Flake (Ariz.) said on Wednesday that his office received a call saying that he and his family "would be 'taken out' " over his rhetoric on Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination.

Flake recounted from the Senate floor how he told Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) that he didn’t think the Senate should proceed with the confirmation process until Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault, was given the opportunity to testify.

“Not everybody felt that way," Flake said. "One man, somewhere in the country, called my office in Arizona and left a message saying that he was tired of me ‘interrupting our president’ and that for the offense of allowing Dr. Ford to be heard, for this offense, me and my family would be ‘taken out.’”

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Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/408557-flake-my-office-received-call-saying-my-family-and-i-would-be-taken-out-over

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Flake: My office received call saying my family would be 'taken out' over Kavanaugh stance [View all] highplainsdem Sep 2018 OP

Here is the difference between Democrats and republicans.. pangaia Sep 2018 #1

+1000 JonLP24 Sep 2018 #5

Yep, I think of that often. n/t RKP5637 Sep 2018 #11

guess which group's actions' Takket Sep 2018 #19

It should show Flake DownriverDem Sep 2018 #21

What is he? I think repubs USED to be him. pangaia Sep 2018 #26

He used to be the crazy end of the spectrum, but when he went crazy, they went crazier. lagomorph777 Sep 2018 #48

Please explain your argument in light of what happened at the Eugene Simpson mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2018 #22

Agreed, sadly. Laura in LA Sep 2018 #24

I would posit there there is no comparison in the quantity. pangaia Sep 2018 #28

This x 1000 Ferrets are Cool Oct 2018 #53

Exactly. Thank you. mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2018 #29

Quantity, my friend. Quantity. paleotn Sep 2018 #35

I haven't heard of Kavanaugh receiving death threats.. whathehell Sep 2018 #43

Many more RepubliCONS than Dems have been found to be violent Farmer-Rick Sep 2018 #33

"Each side has a lunatic fringe." Yeah, but the Weathermen have been out of commission for years. 3Hotdogs Sep 2018 #44

LOLOL pangaia Sep 2018 #46

100 red jelly beans does not equal one black jelly bean. "To imagine otherwise to deceive yourself." LanternWaste Sep 2018 #49

And to them, only one of those responses... dchill Sep 2018 #27

to Jeff Flake--vote NO on Kavanaugh kiri Sep 2018 #39

Yes. volstork Sep 2018 #40

Does he want sympathy now? He still voted for the attempted rapist. brush Oct 2018 #52

That should show him he's on the wrong side of the issue, but watch... brush Sep 2018 #2

Yup. tazkcmo Oct 2018 #54

There are always going to unstable people making threats but honestly I blame Trump Freethinker65 Sep 2018 #3

Trump "willfully" (not "blissfully") incites violence. While he appears without intelligence erronis Sep 2018 #12

Well, I still think he enjoys the fact that he might be powerful enough to incite violence Freethinker65 Sep 2018 #17

IN that sense, I agree, blissfully relayerbob Sep 2018 #20

Always so heartwarming to see rePuke family values on display. Glorfindel Sep 2018 #4

Some red neck sitting in his double wide wearing camo polishing his guns. YOHABLO Sep 2018 #6

Double wide? I doubt it. pangaia Sep 2018 #13

This is what a country full of armed hate groups and lone wolves has come to. ancianita Sep 2018 #7

And it becomes more and more pathetic under the hatred spewing GOP. n/t RKP5637 Sep 2018 #18

So, for the "safety of his family", he'll vote to confirm? catbyte Sep 2018 #8

Same feelings - unreliable and untrustworthy to do the right thing. n/t RKP5637 Sep 2018 #16

The FBI should be brought in on this, perhaps they can somehow determine where the call came still_one Sep 2018 #9

I can't imagine the Senate offices do not have caller ID. Samspadesnark Sep 2018 #23

The phone number would get logged regardless, but the office needs to note which call it was, and if still_one Sep 2018 #25

The phone company may have recordings of the call when it came in, that they would be ... SWBTATTReg Sep 2018 #32

He also has to worry about Putin sellitman Sep 2018 #10

I expect to see a whole set of expendable republicons dumped into the tidal basin - erronis Sep 2018 #15

Fuck you asshole. You brought on yourself.... pangaia Sep 2018 #14

Many Trump supporters have the same attitude as you. Kaleva Sep 2018 #30

Oh. pangaia Sep 2018 #36

Just a matter of time before one of these deplorables does something like this Va Lefty Sep 2018 #31

Now Jeff Flake and Dr. Blasey-Ford have something in common. Maybe he should denounce those who flibbitygiblets Sep 2018 #34

Thank God for strong gun control laws to keep firearms from deranged killers NickB79 Sep 2018 #37

Death threats are not appropriate. LiberalFighter Sep 2018 #38

I think we have reached the point Haggis for Breakfast Sep 2018 #41

What is wrong with people?? AllyCat Sep 2018 #42

They think it's their sacred duty... regnaD kciN Sep 2018 #45

Someone should tell him "Welcome to the world you helped create by supporting Trump." n/t woodsprite Sep 2018 #47

Remember... ck4829 Oct 2018 #50

Today's Republican Party BlueIdaho Oct 2018 #51

So Fake Flaky-Flake caved to a Trumplodyte. lagomorph777 Oct 2018 #55

Cry wolf much flake????? Now they are all finding ways to either, stay relevant, asiliveandbreathe Oct 2018 #56

He is misrepresenting.. violetpastille Oct 2018 #57