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RandySF

(86,253 posts)
Mon Aug 14, 2023, 01:36 PM Aug 2023

Man Pleads Guilty to Sending Bomb Threat to Arizona Election Official

A Massachusetts man who searched online for an Arizona election official’s address and name along with the words “how to kill” pleaded guilty on Friday to making a bomb threat to the official, the U.S. Justice Department said.

The man, James W. Clark, 38, of Falmouth, Mass., sent the threat on Feb. 14, 2021, by using a contact form on the website for the Arizona Secretary of State’s election division, prosecutors said.

The message was addressed to the official, who is not named in public court documents, and said the official needed “to resign by Tuesday February 16th by 9 am or the explosive device impacted in her personal space will be detonated.”

Prosecutors said Mr. Clark also searched a few days later for information about the Boston Marathon bombings, which killed three people in 2013.




https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/us/politics/election-official-bomb-threat-arizona.html

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Man Pleads Guilty to Sending Bomb Threat to Arizona Election Official (Original Post) RandySF Aug 2023 OP
A Republican? MAGAt? Fox viewer...? Grins Aug 2023 #1
Lock this idiot up LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2023 #2
idiots gotta idiot CatWoman Aug 2023 #3
Not naming the victim yet it was revealed it was a woman being the target MagickMuffin Aug 2023 #4

MagickMuffin

(18,362 posts)
4. Not naming the victim yet it was revealed it was a woman being the target
Mon Aug 14, 2023, 02:09 PM
Aug 2023


James W. Clark, 38, of Falmouth made an initial court appearance in Boston to answer to a three-count indictment that charges him with threatening to explode a bomb in Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs' "personal space" if she did not resign.

“The FBI takes all threat-to-life matters very seriously,” said Acting Special Agent in Charge Chris Ormerod of the FBI’s Phoenix field office. “While this arrest demonstrates the FBI’s commitment to hold accountable anyone who tries to intimidate a public official, it also shows that people cannot threaten others with violence and physical harm without repercussions.”

The threat was sent on Feb. 21, 2021, through an online form maintained by the Secretary of State's election department, according to the indictment. It was one of countless threats made against Hobbs for her role in certifying the 2020 election, which Trump contends without evidence was flawed by fraud.

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/massachusetts-man-threatened-arizona-election-official-fbi/2794050/



These magas willing to throw their lives away for someone who is the biggliest chump who hates them but welcomes their allegiance.


So much winning!



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