State prosecutors have charged a Chicago resident with leaving a threatening voicemail for Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey.
Scott Lennox, 21, called the GOP nominee after a pro-Bailey advertisement “angered” him. In a voicemail, Lennox threatened to “skin” Bailey “alive” and “feed his [expletive] family” to him. Lennox added that he knew Bailey's address.
Cook County Circuit Court Judge Susana Ortiz called the threats “above and beyond anything that is acceptable, even in the realms of political discourse.” She added that “It simply will not be tolerated.”
The Chicago Sun-Times has more:
Prosecutors say anger over a political television commercial at a bar led a Chicago man to send Republican gubernatorial nominee Darren Bailey a voicemail threatening to mutilate and kill him and his family — a threat that also prompted a lockdown of downstate schools associated with the state senator and his family.
Bail was set at $75,000 for Scott Lennox, 21, of 3300 N. Lake Shore Drive, who is charged with one felony count each of threatening a public official, telephone harassment and harassment by electronic communications, according to the Cook County State's Attorney's Office.
Cook County Circuit Court Judge Susana Ortiz on Wednesday also put Lennox on electronic monitoring and barred him from contacting Bailey, his family or any of his staffers.
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The violent voicemail came last Friday, the same day Paul Pelosi, the husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was attacked with a hammer in his San Francisco townhome by an intruder targeting the speaker.
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The ridiculous threats against Bailey and his family are only the beginning. Those Fascist bastards posing as Democrats will do anything in their power, be it legal or illegal to get their way and control our government and country right into the cesspool. Biden has already accused Donald Trump for the attack on that drunk Pelosi’s married to. I personally feel the attack was planned and executed by the so called Democrats. And if the Republicans get the majority in both houses of congress we can all bet violence will get even more out of hand than it is now. Those people running our country now are nothing but either Communists or Fascists who will stop at nothing including murdering those who oppose them.
Why don’t we arrest all the Muslims? They threaten to destroy all of us infidels and take over the country.
The poor kid was just doing what those Demon C’d rat legislators told him to do.
“Get in their faces”, as Maxine screamed for everyone to do.
What’s the deal? Democrats are usually so rational, kind, and loving. Republicans are all racist haters according to President Biden. Why would he lie?
Yep. And the Pope is a Jew. And the earth is flat. So many people seem to live in alternate universes today. Like Chesterton said: ‘Those who don’t believe in God will believe anything.’ (or words to that effect).
Typical of Chicago….and another typical move is a monitor instead of jail where he belongs.