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Jimbo101

(776 posts)
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 02:46 PM Jun 2017

Representatives want $25,000 each to hire private security

Political Wire

McClatchy

“House of Representatives lawmakers want $25,000 each to hire private security right away to protect them in their home districts, an unusually quick, bipartisan response to the shooting of a Republican House leader and others at a baseball practice,” McClatchy reports.

“A House panel has approved providing an immediate $10 million for the rest of fiscal 2017, which runs through Sept. 30, for that purpose. Representatives could use the money to pay for an off-duty police officer or private security guard at town halls, fish fries, meet-and-greets or other public events in their districts.”
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Representatives want $25,000 each to hire private security (Original Post) Jimbo101 Jun 2017 OP
They can afford to hire private security out of their existing salaries meow2u3 Jun 2017 #1
Bi-partisan?? I can not believe that..... pangaia Jun 2017 #2
Dem reps get threats and attacked also. Eko Jun 2017 #6
Yes, I understand that.. but... pangaia Jun 2017 #8
What on Earth do they have to be afraid of? world wide wally Jun 2017 #3
NO atreides1 Jun 2017 #4
Isn't it funny. They forget being conservative when it comes to getting things for themselves Thrill Jun 2017 #5
It's about time they're so scared they crap in their pants lunatica Jun 2017 #7
the NRA bdamomma Jun 2017 #13
Hmm underpants Jun 2017 #9
If they are doing such a bad job that they need security ... lpbk2713 Jun 2017 #10
They probably want to hire a bunch of goons and bouncers Proud Liberal Dem Jun 2017 #11
They should be required to ... GeorgeGist Jun 2017 #12
exactly bdamomma Jun 2017 #14
Next, they'll be demanding that TSA resources be diverted from airports Buns_of_Fire Jun 2017 #15
They didn't give a shit about Gabby Giffords and the dems. They should get the same treatment in judesedit Jun 2017 #16
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen! Jim__ Jun 2017 #17
Get in line...behind students and teachers at elementary, middle, high school and college Fresh_Start Jun 2017 #18
Nurses in hospitals, other facilities, get threatened Ilsa Jun 2017 #20
Blackwater? DefenseLawyer Jun 2017 #19
Fear & cowardice are all the GOP has Nevernose Jun 2017 #21

meow2u3

(24,764 posts)
1. They can afford to hire private security out of their existing salaries
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 02:48 PM
Jun 2017

Let them fork it over themselves!

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
8. Yes, I understand that.. but...
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 03:32 PM
Jun 2017

Well, who am I to say....



On edit..

I think it is a wrong move.

world wide wally

(21,744 posts)
3. What on Earth do they have to be afraid of?
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 02:59 PM
Jun 2017

Maybe if they turned down the fuck you volume they could rest easier.

atreides1

(16,079 posts)
4. NO
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 03:02 PM
Jun 2017

That's why there is local law enforcement in their home districts! They want security, let them pay for it, not the taxpayers!!!

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
7. It's about time they're so scared they crap in their pants
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 03:22 PM
Jun 2017

Maybe they won't be so callous the next time there's a mass shooting and people get killed.

lpbk2713

(42,759 posts)
10. If they are doing such a bad job that they need security ...
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 03:35 PM
Jun 2017



they should stay home and find a different line of work. Either that or
have the PACs and Lobbyists they really work for hire the mercenaries.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,414 posts)
11. They probably want to hire a bunch of goons and bouncers
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 03:37 PM
Jun 2017

to keep us "undesirables" away from them. Don't like that some Dems are apparently supporting us. This is just one more way of separating themselves from the rest of us. I feel bad about what happened to Scalise and the others and hope that this doesn't start happening with any regularity but they need to avoid getting too carried away and separating themselves and keeping us peons away from them in the name of "security".

bdamomma

(63,877 posts)
14. exactly
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 03:40 PM
Jun 2017

but do you realize how much money they get from the NRA? God forbid if they ever stood up to them

Buns_of_Fire

(17,183 posts)
15. Next, they'll be demanding that TSA resources be diverted from airports
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 03:40 PM
Jun 2017

and reassigned to perform full screenings (including body cavity searches) of anyone who attends one of their town hall meetings. And individual Popemobiles to get there, of course.

Why not just encase them in bulletproof plexiglass boxes? The government can pay for the boxes, but the cost of drilling the holes so that they could breathe would be their responsibility.

The nice thing is that the odd overripe tomato could just be hosed right off of the Protect-A-Puke™ box and it would be ready for their next performance.

judesedit

(4,439 posts)
16. They didn't give a shit about Gabby Giffords and the dems. They should get the same treatment in
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 03:47 PM
Jun 2017

similar circumstances. The GOP condones violence on everyone but them. Sorry assholes think they're special. We have news for them...they are NOT!

And really, the way they treat the majority of Americans...we need protection from them!

Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)
18. Get in line...behind students and teachers at elementary, middle, high school and college
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 03:52 PM
Jun 2017

behind theater goers and people going clubbing
behind minority victims of police
behind pretty much everyone else in the country that you didn't give a damn about because of NRA money

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
20. Nurses in hospitals, other facilities, get threatened
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 04:11 PM
Jun 2017

all the time by crazed relatives, patients, etc. It's usually the ER and Psych units that get the only security.

Nevernose

(13,081 posts)
21. Fear & cowardice are all the GOP has
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 04:14 PM
Jun 2017

And literally nothing else. Even the bigotry is based in their fear.

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