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Home Front: Politix
Brooks Suggests Republicans Are Retiring Because of Assassination Fears
2018-04-30
[Roll Call] Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks suggested in a radio interview that Republicans are retiring en masse because of assassination fears.

Brooks was speaking on "The Dale Jackson Show" about the first Republican practice the Congressional Baseball Game after last year’s shooting that left Majority Whip Steve Scalise severely injured.

"We have multiple rings of security, plainclothes, uniform, Capitol Police, other police," he said. "There was a medical vehicle nearby just in case there was a copycat."

But Brooks said while there were multiple factors that contributed to a slew of Republicans leaving the House, he suggested fears of violence was a major one.

"One of the things that’s concerning me is the assassination risk may become a factor," he said.

Brooks referred to the fact many members of the Republican baseball team are retiring, including Sen. Jeff Flake and Reps. Ryan Costello, Pat Meehan, Dennis Ross and Tom Rooney.

"You have to wonder with that kind of disproportionate retirement number whether what happened in June played a factor," he said.
Posted by:Besoeker

#9  All you need is 3%.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-04-30 12:26  

#8  From which side?
Posted by: Iblis   2018-04-30 11:12  

#7  Most assassins come from the left so GOP congressmen are far more likely to fear that sort of thing when the Democrats have been agitating for worse for over a year now.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-04-30 10:19  

#6  Serve a few terms, collect a lifetime annuity? Go back home to ambulance chasing. What's not to like ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-04-30 08:30  

#5  I think you have to figure out how many of these retiring pols are Never Trumpers; we all know Flake's one of them. I think that may be the biggest motivation for these folks.
Posted by: Raj   2018-04-30 07:06  

#4  It's about all that campaign war chest cash they are taking with them.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-04-30 05:46  

#3  I call bullshi*! A few WIA at a ball game. No KIA to my knowledge.

You forgot to add /sarcasm, Besoeker. Senator Rand Paul might have easily have died as a result of that neighbourly attack over lawn clippings disposal or whatever his issue was, while the Bernie Bro assassin who went after the softball game most definitely intended to end up with stacks of future zombies.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-04-30 02:21  

#2  Thought Experiment: If the Government Employee Union has become a partisan wing of the Democratic Party is their any person that can't be destroyed by the Government? The new "McCarthyism": "Are You or have you ever been a member of the Communist Republican Party"
Posted by: magpie   2018-04-30 01:11  

#1  "One of the things that’s concerning me is the assassination risk may become a factor," he said.

I call bullshi*! A few WIA at a ball game. No KIA to my knowledge. Brooks is right about one thing however, it is all about courage.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-04-30 01:11  

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