Image Of Bloody Fetus Sent To Beto O’Rourke Supporters

UNITED STATES - AUGUST 1: Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, speaks during the Congressional Hispanic Caucus news conference on the child migrant humanitarian situation on Friday, Aug. 1, 2014, as House Republicans work to... UNITED STATES - AUGUST 1: Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, speaks during the Congressional Hispanic Caucus news conference on the child migrant humanitarian situation on Friday, Aug. 1, 2014, as House Republicans work to come up with immigration legislation to pass before the August recess. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) MORE LESS

Some residents in Garland, Texas, say they received a postcard featuring an image of a bloody fetus. They have at least one thing in common: yard signs supporting Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke. It is unclear who sent the postcards.

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  1. Pulling out all the stops, aren’t they?

  2. Avatar for sanni sanni says:

    Message/Threat: “Shut up. Take down your sign. We have noted where you live.”

    Evidence of some Texans (GOP) getting nervous?

  3. Those tricks thing work. That’s why I believe that the pictures of the bodies of the children of Sandy Hook and other school and church shootings should be made public, it will change the way a lot of people think about guns.

  4. Leigh Taylor, an 18-year resident of the neighborhood, received the postcard in her mail Friday. She suspects someone hand-delivered it to her mailbox […] She estimates that a dozen families received one of the envelopes.

    “I was pretty afraid to put my [yard] sign up until I saw others doing it,” said Taylor, who describes herself as a “pro-choice Democrat. Progressive and getting more so.”

  5. Yet another reminder of why we’re fighting these right wing wanna be fascists. They literally want to dominate and control you no matter what and believe that they can do whatever they want to you, commit violence against you etc.

    We either fight them at the polls in a week or I fear we fight them for real.

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