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TN Man Arrested For Threatening Cantor's Family

Ryan J. Reilly | November 3, 2011, 6:26PM

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA)

Glendon Swift, a 62-year-old Tennessee resident, was arrested by the FBI late yesterday for allegedly threatening Rep. Eric Cantor and his family.

The FBI says Swift left two "screaming, profanity-laden" voicemail messages with Cantor's Virginia office on Oct. 27 and threatened Cantor, his daughter and his wife.

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Topics: Congress, Eric Cantor, FBI, Threats, Threats to Congress

Man Accused Of Threatening Bennet Wants To Be Treated Like Charlie Sheen And Mel Gibson

Ryan J. Reilly | July 8, 2011, 2:27PM

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO)

A Colorado man who allegedly threatened to shoot up Sen. Michael Bennet's office back in January has written a rambling eight-page letter to a federal judge asking for a new lawyer and demanding to be treated just like Charlie Sheen and Mel Gibson.

In the letter, John Troy Davis -- who allegedly claimed in phone calls to Bennet's office that he is a schizophrenic -- says he wants to become famous by becoming a preacher.

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Topics: John Troy Davis, Michael Bennet, Threats

Brett Reese

CO School Board Member Gets Threats Over Anti-MLK Broadcasts

Rachel Slajda | January 12, 2011, 8:30AM

Inset: Greeley-Evans school board member Brett Reese

A school board member in Greeley, Colo., has started bringing his gun to school board meetings after, he says, he received threats over his regular radio broadcasts attacking the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Brett Reese, who owns and manages a local radio station, plays the same commentary twice a day, every day. The commentary, which he reads, calls King a "sexual degenerate," an "America-hating communist" and a "plastic god."

He describes it as a letter he received from a listener three years ago. It can also be found on a web site, martinlutherking.org, which is run by the white supremacist group Stormfront.