>Republican congressman threatens couple (you might be surprised over the cause also):
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http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/09/02/republican-congressman-threatens-couple/Read the articles and the backstory articles and I'm not sure I see the point. Has it been determined that the $1000 contribution was a fact? ( in that case the "threat" seems more stupid than threatening and if it was not then a threat to sue for slander would be legally reasonable )
Or is the point that he is a Republican? ( not that the Daily Kos - surely as even-handed a news-source as one could find - would see anything wrong with that )
I personally find it shocking that any public official would consider taking money from gambling interests and I am sure Harry Reid would agree with me!
Charles Hankey
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