Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC) appeared on MSNBC this afternoon, and talked about the death threat that we’d reported his office received last week over the health care bill. He expressed doubt that it would result in prosecution — and said that other members of Congress have gotten similar calls:
We’ve gotten a lot of calls, and I think what I got is not different from what a lot of members of Congress have gotten. A caller said that if I voted for the health care plan, that it — it could cost me my life. And my staff member was taken aback by that and asked him to repeat it, and he did. And then my staff member asked him point blank, ‘is that a threat?’ And the guy said, ‘There are a lot of angry people out here.’ And that’s probably equivocal enough that it’s not gonna result in a criminal prosecution. And I think a lot of members of Congress have gotten calls that are that creepy and that menacing. And sometimes it’s gone beyond that — the Longworth House Office Building was shut down for several hours a couple weeks ago, because of a bomb threat.
