Man arrested in threat on GOP official

[Corlyss_D]

Man arrested in threat on GOP official

By KEN RITTER, Associated Press WriterTue Apr 24, 9:42 PM ET

A man accused of threatening a Nevada Republican Party official with a rifle was arrested Tuesday in a vehicle in which police found swords, knives, a shotgun, shells and a flare gun, authorities said.

Matthew Hunter Kramer, 31, did not resist officers who arrested him on a warrant issued after the April 3 confrontation at state Republican Party offices in Las Vegas. It wasn't clear why he was not arrested earlier.

Zachary Moyle, executive director of the state GOP, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Kramer invited him to look at something in the trunk of his Mercedes before pulling out a rifle, pointing it at his face and warning that he would be back if President Bush vetoed an emergency war spending bill being considered by Congress.

Bush and Democratic leaders are locked in a dispute over the president's pledge to veto legislation if it sets a timetable on the Iraq war.

Kramer also removed photos of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney from the wall of the office and threatened to harm staff members, Moyle said. Kramer left his cell phone number with office staff before leaving, police said.

He is charged with criminal syndicalism, assault with a deadly weapon and aiming a firearm at a person, police Officer Martin Wright said.

Criminal syndicalism makes it a crime to advocate sabotage, violence or terrorism to accomplish industrial or political reform, said Ron Bloxham, a Clark County prosecutor. It carries a maximum sentence of six years in prison.

It wasn't known Tuesday evening whether Kramer had a lawyer.
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At last they find a Democrat who doesn't believe in gun control and what does he do? He threatens to kill Republicans! In their effort to grow their voter rolls on a steady diet of hate, the Dems have been playing with forces they cannot control. Uninformed members of this board speak often about urban myths of Republican voter intimidation which have never been proven by any investigative body, governmental or journalistic. Yet repeatedly there are actual news reports of dangerous Democratic vandalism against Republicans and Republican campaign offices. Guess they never really abandoned the tactics they developed for surpressing blacks in the south 1878-1970.

[Ralph]

Where does the article state the defendant is a Democrat? As if that would matter. Most of the Ku Klux Klan votes Republican. Does that mean anything?

[Harold Tucker]

Republicans took over supressing blacks in the south way before 1970. Give credit where credit is due. Here is just more idiotic guilt by association just like that idiot attributing some nasty e-mails in the Washington Post about the press secretary to "liberals". No evidence, just invective.