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Even Republicans aren’t immune from rightwing death threats

A Long Island, New York, man has been arrested for telephoning a death threat to Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) because he voted for Biden’s infrastructure bill, Huffington Post reported on Friday, November 12, 2021 (story here).

The call was made a few days after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tweeted the 13 GOP House members who voted for the bill were “traitors,” and included their phone numbers.

Garbarino said, “It’s amazing people want to kill me over paving roads and clean water.”

The accused’s lawyer describes his client as “an ordinary American who was offended” that Garbarino voted “to wreck our country” by repairing bridges and paving roads.

So I have a suggestion: Let’s skip repairing the bridges he drives over. Let him drive on this, if it’ll make him happy:

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