But Johnson was clearly disturbed by what he characterized as “mob rule and thuggery.” He said that Republicans were being accused of being undemocratic, but “what doesn’t look democratic is the mob rule.” He argued that the “amount of thuggery, the threats of execution” have not been sufficiently covered by the media. He recalled that a radio show host read an anonymous e-mail sent to all the Wisconsin Republican state senators “threatening to put a bullet” through their heads and asserting that the e-mailer knew where the senators and their families were. Johnson said, “That is so out of bounds.”
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