Maricopa County Official Reportedly Goes Into Hiding Over Midterm Safety Fears

[Scott]

 

Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates has been moved to an “undisclosed” location for protection amid safety fears over blowback linked to losers in the midterm elections in Arizona, a local Fox station reported Sunday.

 

Deputies from the county sheriff’s office have been assigned to guard him in the wake of increasingly disturbing criticism online and in person, according to Fox 10 in Phoenix.

 

Gates confirmed to the station that he was moved “for his own safety,” the station reported.

 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/maricopa-bill-gates-undisclose-location-safety-concerns-arizona_n_637abef6e4b0e771d9557a24

 

[Bluespunk]

MAGA

[ozimoron]

Not surprisingly, American politics have radicalized. According to one recent poll, 30% of Republicans agree with the statement, “Because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.” This figure is especially high among those who believe Trump’s false claim that President Biden and the Democrats stole the 2020 election.

 

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2022/01/05/assessing-the-right-wing-terror-threat-in-the-united-states-a-year-after-the-january-6-insurrection/

[candide]

Well, at least, someone warned him...

From the article:

"He said an attorney from the Republican National Committee speaking on behalf of the campaign warned Liddy on the phone a week ago that there were “a lot” of Lake supporters who were really “irate” and the campaign was unable to “control” them."