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jpak

(41,756 posts)
Sun May 14, 2017, 05:37 PM May 2017

Woman attempts to drive GOP congressman off road over health-care vote, police say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/05/13/woman-attempts-to-drive-gop-congressman-off-road-over-health-care-vote-police-say/?utm_term=.28ae2fda84b0

A Tennessee woman hated that her congressman voted for the controversial Republican health-care bill in the House of Representatives, authorities said.

So Wendi L. Wright tried to run Rep. David Kustoff (R-Tenn.) off the road after he visited the University of Tennessee at Martin, they said.

The Weakley County Sheriff’s Department said Wright tailed the car carrying Kustoff. At some point, the congressman and his aide became afraid and worried that Wright wanted to force them off the road.

They then turned into a driveway and stopped. That’s where Wright got out, screamed at the congressman and struck the windows of his vehicle, even reaching inside the car, the sheriff’s department said.

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Woman attempts to drive GOP congressman off road over health-care vote, police say (Original Post) jpak May 2017 OP
get the right jury, she won't be convicted. Thomas Hurt May 2017 #1
Oops shenmue May 2017 #2
It's due to a preexisting condition. n/t cloudbase May 2017 #3
NOW tell me how angry folks are about them stealing our health care...and angstlessk May 2017 #4
This might help conservatives see that this is a public health issue Blue Meany May 2017 #5

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
4. NOW tell me how angry folks are about them stealing our health care...and
Sun May 14, 2017, 06:29 PM
May 2017

giving that cash to the ultra-already-rich!

 

Blue Meany

(1,947 posts)
5. This might help conservatives see that this is a public health issue
Sun May 14, 2017, 07:07 PM
May 2017

that could affect even them when millions of uninsured people become mentally-ill and turn their homocidal rage on their congresscritters. They should have visions of the gray panthers coming at them with suicide belts if they dare to touch Social Security.

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