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Break-in, ‘threatening note’ at office of GOP senator considered swing vote in health-care bill

Break-in, ‘threatening note’ at office of GOP senator considered swing vote in health-care bill

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. · Monday, July 17th 2017 at 4:29PM · 797 views
Break-in, ‘threatening note’ at office of GOP senator considered swing vote in health-care bill
By Amy B Wang -- The Washington Post

A “threatening note” was found over the weekend after a break-in at the Las Vegas office of Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.), a Republican senator who could be a critical swing vote on the GOP health-care bill, police said.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said officers responded to a call about a burglary alarm Saturday morning at Heller’s office in southwest Las Vegas. There, they discovered what they described in a statement as a “threatening note” addressed to Heller near the door to his office.

The Nevada Independent’s Jon Ralston reported that the note was related to the Senate’s upcoming vote on the GOP’s health-care bill:

A note taped to Sen. Dean Heller’s campaign office was from someone asserting that he would lose his health care if the key senator voted for the repeal bill and that he would die if that happened and would take Heller with him, a law enforcement source said.

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