Don't Be That Guy
Walter C. Abbott Jr. has sent e-mails from time to time to the governor and state legislators complaining about losing construction work to illegal immigrants.
He never received anything but a form-letter type response. This week, the 44-year-old Parkville man added something extra to his e-mail: a threat to strangle Gov. Martin O'Malley.
Within five hours, three Maryland state troopers responded to the e-mail. Abbott was arrested Tuesday and charged with threatening a public official. He was being held Thursday night at the Baltimore County Detention Center on $2 million bail.
UPDATE
H/T O’Malley Watch
While it is certainly inappropriate and reprehensible to level a threat at the Governor, or any other politician for that matter, it is apparently acceptable for the Governor (then mayor) to threaten people.
3 comments:
Mark,
No offense, but if that guy is REALLY a drywall hanger and is only pulling in $22k a year, there is something wrong. Really wrong.
Good drywall hangers are hard to find, and they can do pretty well by themselves.
For the moment, consider the possibility that $22K income for this individual is true enough.
Then consider losing that income to someone that does it - cheaper (???!) and perhaps even under the table.
Would an employer care?
It seems that also the state doesn't.
We are doomed, if this is indeed the case.
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