Rep. Ken Buck and others have been receiving death threats and menacing phone calls since voting against Jim Jordan for House Speaker. Buck was asked about the brawl during the conference behind closed doors, where Kevin McCarthy told Matt Gaetz to "sit the fuck down" during a screaming match between the two.
Buck said he was at the meeting, which he described as "painful" and said tempers were flaring during that meeting before describing the real reason they're all at each other's throats:
BUCK: Part of the reason that there's temper right now is this constant barrage of phone calls. So far, I've had four death threats. I've been evicted from my office in Colorado. I have a notice of eviction because the landlord is mad with my vote record on the speaker issue. And everybody in the conference is getting this.
And, as CNN reported, he's not the only one who has spoken out about it:
Several Republicans who opposed Rep. Jim Jordan’s House speakership bid said they are experiencing angry calls, menacing messages and even death threats since casting their votes, increasing the already tense and chaotic atmosphere in the GOP as they struggle to elect a speaker.
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa said in a statement that she has “received credible death threats and a barrage of threatening calls” after flipping her speaker vote from Jordan on Tuesday to House Appropriations Chairwoman Kay Granger on Wednesday. New York Rep. Nick LaLota, meanwhile, shared in a social media post a message he received that told him to “go f**k yourself and die.”
Rep. Steve Womack of Arkansas said his office has been flooded with calls and there’s been “lots of profanity,” but “no real substantive threats,” while Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon’s wife received menacing text messages.
The anonymous text messages warned her husband – who has been a vocal holdout against Jordan – to back the Ohio Republican. “Your husband will not hold any political office ever again. What a disappointment and failure he is,” read one messages sent to Bacon’s wife and obtained by CNN through the congressman. She responded to that text saying, “He has more courage than you. You won’t put your name to your statements.”
Makes you wonder how long this kind of stuff has been going on that we haven't heard about, especially since Trump came to town.
And this is just lovely? CNN obtained audio of one of the threats left to the wife of a GOP lawmaker that opposed Jordan.
