Brady Campaign Chastises Sen. Grassley for Ignoring Veiled Threat

[meowomon]

There should be more chastising of this old fart senator. He is a disgrace to the US Senate for ignoring this threat. I hope the secret service pays Mr. Eisenhower a visit.


Brady Campaign chastises Sen. Grassley for ignoring veiled threat

The Brady Campaign, an activist gun control organization named for James Brady, President Ronald Regan’s press secretary who was shot in the head during an assassination attempt, is not at all happy with Sen. Grassley.

From the Iowa Independent:

“It was a credit to the senator’s audience that they booed Mr. Eisenhower, but Sen. Grassley also has a responsibility as an elected official to categorically denounce Mr. Eisenhower’s statement and the sentiment behind it,” said Doug Pennington, assistant director of communications for Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

Grassley may not have taken the threat seriously, Pennington said, since Eisenhower appears to be a senior citizen.

“Yet we recently saw 88 year-old James W. von Brunn shoot and kill a security officer at the Holocaust Memorial Museum here in Washington, DC,” he said. “Sen. Grassley should have taken Mr. Eisenhower and his words very seriously.”

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/25/gop-senator-brushed-off-assassination-threat/

[Uzybone]

1. Grassley has crossed the line too many times

[ProgressiveProfessor]

2. The Brady Bunch is rapidly becoming irrelevant and thats a good thing

[katandmoon]

3. So you don't agree that Grassley should denounce anyone in his audience who says he's taking a

gun to Washington, ith the clear implication of causing violence with it, since he also called Obama a little Hitler?

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4. And the Brady parasites crawl from underneath their rocks...

to comment on and exploit an incident unrelated to their agenda, but make a weak attempt to capitalize on it anyways.

Fucking maggots.

[katandmoon]

5. They have learned well from the NRA

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6. If that were true...

they'd have a much better track record of court room and legislative victories on their scorecard.

[JDPriestly]

7. That elderly man should be held to be just as responsible for his conduct

as Bernie Madoff or any other person. He should be investigated for making such a public threat. He was inciting others to violence. At the least, he should be asked to apologize. He set a very bad example for younger people in the audience.

[spin]

8. His statement probably put him on the Secret Service watch list. (n/t)