Reply #75: Arrest Follows Threat to Kill Senator [View All]

Source: The New York Times

Federal agents on Tuesday arrested and charged a man with threatening to kill Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, because he was angry about her vote in favor of the major health care legislation.

Patty Murray of Washington is the No. 4 Democrat in the Senate.
According to a criminal complaint, the man, Charles A. Wilson, 64, of Selah, Wash., made a series of threatening phone calls to Senator Murray’s Seattle office between March 22 — the day after Congress approved the health care law — and April 4, including a recorded message in which he said, “I want to kill you.”

He was charged with a single count of threatening a federal official, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Ms. Murray, the No. 4 Democrat in the Senate, is the highest-ranking woman in the majority leadership. In the days after passage of the legislation, a several lawmakers, mostly Democrats, reported receiving threats and also some incidents of vandalism at their offices.

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