skippy the bush kangaroo: when repubbbs eat their own

Monday, September 03, 2007

when repubbbs eat their own

the true values of gop christian hardware raises its ugly head, if we can mix a few metaphors so badly as to need a blender to do it right, as a coloradocongressman leaves threatening voice mail messages on a couple’s phone. denverpost:

a local couple is complaining that u.s. rep. doug lamborn left them two threatening voice mails after they wrote a letter criticizing his fundraising.

jonathan bartha and anna bartha told the denver post that lamborn said there would be "consequences" if they did not withdraw their letter.

"we felt very threatened and intimidated, and quite frankly, scared," anna bartha said. "it was just not anything we would ever anticipate an elected official would pursue or a way that an elected official would conduct himself."

lamborn, in a call to the associated press on sunday, said there was never any intention to threaten anyone and that he had never accepted money from the gambling industry as alleged by the barthas.

but cry no tears for the barthas, as they are employed by focus on the family, and their righteousness is so “self” that “indignation” should be their job description.:

the bartha's letter criticized lamborn for allegedly accepting $1,500 in campaign contributions from the gambling industry. federal records confirm the donations were accepted, but lamborn said he returned them. he did not say when and the post said there is no federal record of them being returned.
lamborn's voice mails urged the couple as "brothers and sisters in christ" and implored them to call him back to discuss their "blatantly false" letter.

jonathan bartha is employed by focus on the family. his wife, a board member of falcon school district 49, worked for two months as a scheduler for candidate jeff crank during a bitter, six-way republican primary race for the 5th congressional district seat.

addendum: ed&pub has a transcript of the two messages.

Labels: house of representatives, religion, right hypocrisy