{"id":10789,"date":"2023-03-15T16:04:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T20:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vademocrats.org\/?p=10789"},"modified":"2023-03-15T16:04:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T20:04:41","slug":"gop-state-senator-threatens-to-murder-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vademocrats.org\/news\/gop-state-senator-threatens-to-murder-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>GOP State Senator Threatens to Murder Democrats<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>RICHMOND, VA<\/strong> \u2013 Republican State Senator and failed VA-07 congressional candidate, Bryce Reeves, has announced an upcoming fundraiser by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reevesva\/status\/1634980538770489345?s=61&amp;t=gU5platMBgjkjeDDhh_bAw\">threatening to murder Democrats<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an apparent reference to Paramount Network\u2019s streaming television series \u201cYellowstone,\u201d the GOP Senator advertises his plans to \u201cTake Dems to the Train Station in 2023.\u201d In \u201cYellowstone,\u201d taking someone to the \u201ctrain station\u201d is understood to mean murdering someone and disposing of the victim\u2019s body off of a cliff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis rhetoric has no place in Virginia\u2019s political discourse,\u201d <strong>said Liam Watson, Press Secretary for the Democratic Party of Virginia<\/strong>. \u201cSenator Reeves\u2019 attempt to fundraise off of a threat to murder his fellow Virginians should horrify us all. Even for MAGA Republicans, for whom violent messaging has become a mainstay, Senator Reeves\u2019 statement has crossed a line of decency.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>###<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RICHMOND, VA \u2013 Republican State Senator and failed VA-07 congressional candidate, Bryce Reeves, has announced an upcoming fundraiser by threatening to murder Democrats. In an apparent reference to Paramount Network\u2019s streaming television series \u201cYellowstone,\u201d the GOP Senator advertises his plans to \u201cTake Dems to the Train Station in 2023.\u201d In \u201cYellowstone,\u201d taking someone to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>GOP State Senator Threatens to Murder Democrats - Democratic Party of Virginia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/vademocrats.org\/news\/gop-state-senator-threatens-to-murder-democrats\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GOP State Senator Threatens to Murder Democrats - Democratic Party of Virginia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"RICHMOND, VA \u2013 Republican State Senator and failed VA-07 congressional candidate, Bryce Reeves, has announced an upcoming fundraiser by threatening to murder Democrats. 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