Wisconsin Dem assemblyman to GOP colleague: “You are f***ing dead”
posted at 6:22 pm on February 28, 2011 by Allahpundit
The only person in America who’s had a more interesting week than this guy is Charlie Sheen. Last Monday, he was the left’s new hero for his bravura, screeching, truth-to-power grandstanding on the Wisconsin assembly floor. The next day, local police revealed that he’d recently been cited in connection with a prostitution sting on a massage parlor. Fast forward a few more days to the big vote on Walker’s budget bill, annnnnnd…
“After the vote to engross, he turns to a female conservative Republican, who is also from the Oshkosh area, looks at her and says, ‘You are f—ing dead,’” Sykes said. “He didn’t say ‘f—ing,’ he said the whole thing. He says to a female colleague, ‘You are f—ing dead.’”
That’s from radio host Charlie Sykes, allegedly relaying what he’d been told by GOP Rep. Michelle Litjens. How do we know she’s telling the truth? Well, without specifying as to why, Hintz apparently felt the need to apologize to her this afternoon:
Rep. Gordon Hintz, D Oshkosh, apologized to Rep. Michelle Litjens, R-Winneconne, for shouting out an obscenity that included the words “you’re dead” that Litjens and other witnesses heard in the chaotic scene after Republicans approved the bill.
Litjens said she accepted the apology, but has asked the Assembly leadership to discipline Hintz.
“Everyone was exhausted. We were on the floor 58 hours. (But) there is still no excuse for his comment,” Litjens said…
Hintz Monday said he called Litjens to apologize but said he could not “confirm that quote.”
There’s no evidence that anyone in the visitor’s gallery heard him, but the lesson of the Tucson shooting is that a crank doesn’t actually have to hear a politician’s heated rhetoric to be somehow influenced by it. So feel free to blame Hintz for every jackass move made by a protester recently.
Via the Daily Caller, here’s Sykes recounting what Litjens told him. Exit question: Are we sure the Republicans in the Wisconsin senate are standing firm on passing Walker’s bill once the fleebaggers come home? According to Greg Sargent and several other reporters, at least one GOPer is ready to cave and vote no.
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Part of that new civility we have all been hearing about?
sharrukin on February 28, 2011 at 6:25 PM
Thank Gaia that PBHO asked for civility in the political realm, if not we would all be dead at the hands of enraged leftists.
Bishop on February 28, 2011 at 6:25 PM
Obama condems him in a strongly worded speech when?
Johnnyreb on February 28, 2011 at 6:26 PM
Oshkosh B’Gosh!
James on February 28, 2011 at 6:26 PM
At least didn’t use any cross-hair graphics in any online publications. That would have been way over the top and uncivil.
vcferlita on February 28, 2011 at 6:26 PM
Why does Walker not split the bill and pass the non financial part? What am I missing here?
d1carter on February 28, 2011 at 6:26 PM
“Oh, that prostitution thing? I was gathering facts for a book I intend to write.”
BobMbx on February 28, 2011 at 6:26 PM
Yeah but conservatives and tea partiers need to tone it down right?
MyImamToldMeToDoIt on February 28, 2011 at 6:26 PM
What if Sarah Palin…
Never mind.
I think the real question this leaves me with is, “Can someone wake me from my nap when all these shenanigans are over?”
WashingtonsWake on February 28, 2011 at 6:27 PM
Yo, Gordo. Your mom is on line 1. Ms. Litjens husband is on line 2. And, oh BTW, there’s 20 Marines outside that have got yo’ number.
ted c on February 28, 2011 at 6:27 PM
Well, ya know, if it’s really important and the cause is noble an’ stuff, a little heated rhetoric gets the point across, right?
Bob's Kid on February 28, 2011 at 6:28 PM
The Daily Caller doesn’t use **** in their headline…
d1carter on February 28, 2011 at 6:28 PM
Didn’t he just issue a terroristic threat to her? He should be arrested and charged.
OmahaConservative on February 28, 2011 at 6:28 PM
Bwaaahahahaha! Leave it to the GOP to suddenly drop their gloves to the side just as their opponent is ready to sag against the ropes.
TrueKing(?) is correct: The GOP will betray you.
Bishop on February 28, 2011 at 6:30 PM
Death threats … yet another similarity between the left and the islamists.
Tony737 on February 28, 2011 at 6:30 PM
ted c on February 28, 2011 at 6:30 PM
Death threats? Paid off by the big union bosses? Skeletons in his closet?
Knucklehead on February 28, 2011 at 6:31 PM
Did he have a steak knife?
Tony737 on February 28, 2011 at 6:31 PM
Threatening another member of the chamber?
Censure and remove now.
And while we’re at it, pass Constitutional Carry now. Apparently we need it more than ever.
MadisonConservative on February 28, 2011 at 6:31 PM
Crosshair Map Madness has made its way to Wisconsin. At this rate, it will hit the East coast by March 5.
portlandon on February 28, 2011 at 6:32 PM
there was that guy in Atlanta that got shoved in the back by some fat a$$ white dude. He was a honky walking with all of his honky white probably racist union buddies. Maybe if homeboy shoved his fat a$$ away from the dinner table a few more times with such vigor, he wouldn’t have such a gut. Then again, he’ll probably get on Big Momma’s South Beach arugala diet tomorrow.
ted c on February 28, 2011 at 6:32 PM
OT Bret Baier just quoted Hotairs OOTD from today
utebell on February 28, 2011 at 6:33 PM
Maybe we should find this WI Dems mom, or his wife, or his kids and tell them the same thing. We’ll see how that goes over/
ted c on February 28, 2011 at 6:33 PM
you won’t hear about this on the alphabet networks…that’s for sure…
they as sure as shoot better do that…
cmsinaz on February 28, 2011 at 6:34 PM
Where is Politeness Man and his Stainless Steel Handkerchief when you need him?
khacha on February 28, 2011 at 6:34 PM
but in a nice way.
scrubjay on February 28, 2011 at 6:34 PM
When do the layoffs start?
angryed on February 28, 2011 at 6:34 PM
HotAir Commenter bifidis should be showing up anytime to tell us all that the “Ends justify the Means” in regards to crimes committed in the name of the Unions.
portlandon on February 28, 2011 at 6:34 PM
Why would anyone be surprised when a GOPer snatches defeat from the jaws of victory?
katiejane on February 28, 2011 at 6:35 PM
Don’t they have criminal courts in Wisconsin? They should consider using them.
meci on February 28, 2011 at 6:35 PM
when you look up the word class, this guy’s picture is nowhere to be found…
cmsinaz on February 28, 2011 at 6:35 PM
can it be done with a rusty pipe?
ted c on February 28, 2011 at 6:35 PM
who can you trust these days…
cripe
cmsinaz on February 28, 2011 at 6:35 PM
Hey, what about the climate of hate, lefties?
Typical lefty hypocrite.
rightwingyahooo on February 28, 2011 at 6:36 PM
Didn’t some other leftie say the exact same thing about Giffords?
Is the “you’re dead” thing some kind of buzz phrase for liberals?
ButterflyDragon on February 28, 2011 at 6:36 PM
but it’s near a picture that rhymes with ‘class’.
ted c on February 28, 2011 at 6:36 PM
GOP hold the senate 19-11.
One RINO to make it 18-12 isn’t a cave-in (at least not yet). And remember this is the same RINO that wanted to appease the communist thugs from Day 1 with his BS “compromise” bill that would have given the unions almost everything they wanted.
angryed on February 28, 2011 at 6:37 PM
Does that qualify as villification? I’m pretty sure Rep. Litjens is a “public employee.”
Barnestormer on February 28, 2011 at 6:37 PM
Well, I guess homeboy has something in common with Jared Laughner. They’ve both threatened to kill female representatives. I wonder if Big Sis JaNaNa is taking an interest to this lil’ Dems threat to another FEMALE.
ted c on February 28, 2011 at 6:38 PM
Whoopi – But it wasn’t dead-dead.
yoda on February 28, 2011 at 6:38 PM
Steeling my resolve to try a run for a seat in the Assembly or Senate…this is mind-melting.
MadisonConservative on February 28, 2011 at 6:38 PM
Who cares? All it takes is a majority.
And yes, there is no doubt a majority will vote for the bill.
ButterflyDragon on February 28, 2011 at 6:38 PM
This is all a freaking joke. The libs are unhinged and prone to violence. The MSM fails to hold them accountable. This political atmosphere is getting more and more desperate and the tea partiers are getting all the bad press while the libs get a pass.
carbon_footprint on February 28, 2011 at 6:39 PM
Remember who these Libs are:
portlandon on February 28, 2011 at 6:39 PM
Another tough lefty dude threatening or assaulting a woman. Why is is these jackmuffins never confront men unless they’re part of a group, they’re always picking on the women?
Ms. Litjen’s husband should confront that demorat prig and have a little talk with him, I would and he would remember it for the rest of his life.
Bishop on February 28, 2011 at 6:39 PM
Come on. He didn’t f***ing mean it! ;)
Tennman on February 28, 2011 at 6:39 PM
The same Senator has been trying to “compromise” the whole time. Even if he folds it will take 3 more to follow and I don’t see that.
sandee on February 28, 2011 at 6:39 PM
More violence and vicious hatred from the Left. What else is new. Are ‘journalists’ asking little Bammie to condemn the violence and hatred? Why not?
Standard practice in the old liberal media, anytime anything can be pinned on Republicans, -go to every Republican you can find and demand a condemnation. No need for a connection between the act and the Republican!
In the case of democratics, not so much.
slickwillie2001 on February 28, 2011 at 6:40 PM
why yes it is :)
cmsinaz on February 28, 2011 at 6:40 PM
Argue with them, get in their faces. If they bring a knife, we bring a gun.
ted c on February 28, 2011 at 6:41 PM
This may actually be serious enough for Obama to invite him over for a beer.
malclave on February 28, 2011 at 6:41 PM
Do it. If not you, then who?
ted c on February 28, 2011 at 6:41 PM
keep us up to date buddy
cmsinaz on February 28, 2011 at 6:42 PM
I believe it’s 19-14. 20 present needed for a quorum. Majority (of the quorum?) to pass.
Barnestormer on February 28, 2011 at 6:43 PM
Send in the National Guard!
http://dma.wi.gov/dma/default.asp
canopfor on February 28, 2011 at 6:43 PM
tag these guys as the two most likely to end up in a shallow grave in the next few weeks.
ted c on February 28, 2011 at 6:44 PM
And to think,that Team Republican were sooooooooooooooooo
beep..beep…beepbeep…beep’n stupid to hold hands at the
SOTUA!!!
canopfor on February 28, 2011 at 6:45 PM
Do it!!!!
katy the mean old lady on February 28, 2011 at 6:46 PM
Whoopi – But it wasn’t dead-dead.
yoda on February 28, 2011 at 6:38 PM
yoda:Hehe,Whoopi,and civility,yup,hope your doin fine!:)
canopfor on February 28, 2011 at 6:47 PM
Restore InSanity Rally….gawk…hurl!!
canopfor on February 28, 2011 at 6:49 PM
I guess death threats aren’t even an infraction in this country any more…
… I’m going to have to remember that come the 2012 elections.
Seven Percent Solution on February 28, 2011 at 6:49 PM
hey look the perfect candidate for ROve to embrace….he should take a trip to Wis and sign on to this guys campaign….
unseen on February 28, 2011 at 6:49 PM
What is the GOP doing to POINT OUT the hate on the LEFT? We all know that the GOP rushes to it’s knees to atone for NON-EXISTENT hate on the Right – such as when they did their little “prom dates” with Dims at the SOTU address in response to a shooting that had nothing to do with politics or the right.
Guess that’s really all the tricks the GOP has in it’s trick bag huh? Kneepads.
Meh
HondaV65 on February 28, 2011 at 6:51 PM
Right you are.
So 17 is needed to pass a bill. That means only 1 more RINO has to bolt and the communists win. Ugh.
angryed on February 28, 2011 at 6:51 PM
yoda:Hehe,Whoopi,and civility,yup,hope your doin fine!:)
canopfor on February 28, 2011 at 6:47 PM
Glad to be here again!! We’ve got a big battle to fight and I am reporting for duty, sir!
yoda on February 28, 2011 at 6:51 PM
It’s the GOP … is there any doubt?
HondaV65 on February 28, 2011 at 6:52 PM
Someone who’s less of a misanthrope and hermit. Though, the way many of these f**king losers act, I’m really wondering who the misanthropes really are.
MadisonConservative on February 28, 2011 at 6:52 PM
By the way anyone heard from Ms. McCain? She was so outraged at the non-existent right wing hate in Tucson. I’d love to hear her thought on the actual left wing hate that is real in WI.
Crickets of course…
angryed on February 28, 2011 at 6:53 PM
I think its time for Team Right to enroll in VP Dick
Cheney’s,
Close Quarters Bird Hunting and Targetting class,
and,
the fine art of speaking to the Left,
of GO F**K YOURSELF SCHOOL!!
canopfor on February 28, 2011 at 6:53 PM
Is it true that Gordon Hintz is really nicknamed Hand Job Gordy because his sex life is centered around massage parlors? He is gutter trash, but think what the voters who elected this psycho have to be like.
volsense on February 28, 2011 at 6:54 PM
Litjens had the temerity to do what, vote for something that Mr. Azzholian didn’t agree with, and for that he tells her she’s “effin dead”?
These leftist trash are peeling away more of their layers every day, getting themselves down to that pure lizard core. They are letting us know just how much they hate the republic which they supposedly represent because it gets in their way.
Bishop on February 28, 2011 at 6:54 PM
Are you still here in NE?
OmahaConservative on February 28, 2011 at 6:55 PM
Anxiously awaiting Paul Krugman’s denunciation of “eliminationist rhetoric.”
JamesB on February 28, 2011 at 6:55 PM
Serenity Now!
He should resign. A Wisconsin teachable moment is right…, moment.
Kini on February 28, 2011 at 6:55 PM
canopfor on February 28, 2011 at 6:47 PM
Glad to be here again!! We’ve got a big battle to fight and I am reporting for duty, sir!
yoda on February 28, 2011 at 6:51 PM
yoda:Excellent,your in charge of the Horse Armour Brigade!
hehe:)
canopfor on February 28, 2011 at 6:55 PM
I don’t suppose this incident or any of the other classless videos of the last two weeks are being played on a loop at the cable or alphabet networks?
In two short weeks the Left has managed to live up to every accusation and stereotype that they and the media have leveled against the Tea Party and the Right for the last two years.
Projection is something the Left and the media share as a core conviction. Whatever they screech about the loudest you can be sure they do it much worse and do it more often.
chief on February 28, 2011 at 6:56 PM
Well, you’ve got to hand to the left for giving it the old college try after Tucson, here they thought they could get us all to shut up er excuse me exercise the new civility, but alas they couldn’t help themselves and showed how they are truly the uncivil lot.
Better luck next time losers (oh, sorry was that uncivil?)
Chip on February 28, 2011 at 6:56 PM
be encouraged. In 2000, I chose to join a special unit. After 9/11/01, I had to reconsider that choice because I had not been assigned yet and I now knew we were going to war. I resolved myself to proceed forward and do what needed to be done. Had I not done that, I would live with a burden of regret. I don’t. Do the same. my 2c
ted c on February 28, 2011 at 6:57 PM
She should have kicked him where the balls would be on a real man and see if it had any effect.
SKYFOX on February 28, 2011 at 6:58 PM
A simple question: Why isn’t this screaming asshole in prison???
As long as all of us allow this crap to happen unchallenged, then we deserve what we get. Again, why isn’t this total piece of shit being pursued to the ends of the earth to ensure he ends up in jail???
alwyr on February 28, 2011 at 6:58 PM
Just don’t care anymore. Glad I live in Texas. Can I ask Why, Rep. Litjens?
Marcus on February 28, 2011 at 6:58 PM
Death threats and death panels: Your democrat party.
I can see the commercials in my head.
SouthernGent on February 28, 2011 at 7:00 PM
So..um..I guess that um….Arizona Hopey Speech
was…um..just a Deception/Perception Operation
geared to make Team Left Holy’er than thou,and to
make a false impression narrative to be picked up,
by the Marist Socialist Media,as being above it all!
Even tho,some time later a Tea Party Official was threat
ened by the Lefty MoonBat that was shot by one of his own,
er,a Lefty that is!!
canopfor on February 28, 2011 at 7:01 PM
Litjens is a hottie.
OmahaConservative on February 28, 2011 at 7:03 PM
It’s never covered in the news because this is the way we’re supposed to expect Democrats to behave. Nothing to see here.
Scrappy on February 28, 2011 at 7:03 PM
wow, you’re not kidding.
Scrappy on February 28, 2011 at 7:04 PM
Mold hit the sunshine. It is so much fun to watch them shrivel.
Schadenfreude on February 28, 2011 at 7:05 PM
Usually the majority is of those present at the time of the vote. Is it different in the WI Senate?
pedestrian on February 28, 2011 at 7:06 PM
I wonder if crr6 and ernesto are going to show up in this thread? Bifidis won’t, he’s already flushed himself today.
I didn’t think so either. The cognitive dissonance would create destructive harmonics in their skulls.
JeffWeimer on February 28, 2011 at 7:07 PM
Rep. Litjens the proper response is: ‘Then I get my choice of weapons, right?’
That is the way to respond to such a thing.
A mention of ‘sabers’ or ‘Colt 1911s’ would be a good thing to say while musing the decision and sizing up the wimpitude of the dipstick who just threatened you.
ajacksonian on February 28, 2011 at 7:07 PM
3 need to have their arms broken and pockets filled by the union and Obama’s thugs, and voila!
Schadenfreude on February 28, 2011 at 7:07 PM
You would be good. Do it. I had a similar urge at a younger age and will forever regret not following through.
a capella on February 28, 2011 at 7:09 PM
Apparently, promoting prostitution is as much a credential for Wisconsin Democrats (like Gordon Hintz, D Oshkosh)…as it is for Democrats in the US House of Representatives (like Barney Frank, D Massachusetts).
This gives us all insight into how Democrats view the job of an elected representative, and what they consider “relevant experience.”
landlines on February 28, 2011 at 7:10 PM
Yes, until the end of March. We finally sold the NE casa and should close on the other one later in March, so I’ll have to take off my Husker sweatshirt and put on my red ruby slippers. I will try to get involved with another Tea Party when I get settled….we have lots of work to do for 2012.
yoda on February 28, 2011 at 7:10 PM
She’s an NRA member. Next time Litjens is sitting next to Hintz she should be thumbing a copy of “American Rifleman”.
She looks at the mag then looks speculatively at Hintz…looks back at the mag…looks at Hintz…and see how he reacts.
Bishop on February 28, 2011 at 7:14 PM
MadisonConservative on February 28, 2011 at 6:38 PM
The country needs you, your state and city need you. Run. Any of us considering it need to do it. I have a conservative friend running, I’m her campaign manager. Next time I’ll run.
We all need to take it up a notch – in a non-violent way of course. Take it back one seat at a time…
Yellowdog12 on February 28, 2011 at 7:14 PM
No buddy, you are, come next election cycle.
GarandFan on February 28, 2011 at 7:15 PM
Do it! I’m considering tossing my hat in as well. I think the average blog commenter is far more aware of what’s going on in politics than the average state assemblyperson.
alwaysfiredup on February 28, 2011 at 7:16 PM
Email
Rep.Litjens@legis.wi.gov
encourage her to press charges, prosecute him and dump him in the trash where he belongs.
ted c on February 28, 2011 at 7:16 PM
Why do you keep asking the same f-ing question in every f-ing thread?
Call Gov. Walker and ask *him* – how are we supposed to f-ing know?
Midas on February 28, 2011 at 7:16 PM
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