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Rep. Paul Broun gets town hall query: 'Who is going to shoot Obama?'
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Feb 25, 2011 09:58am |
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| Author | JENNIFER EPSTEIN |
| News Date | Friday, February 25, 2011 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A constituent at a town hall for Georgia Rep. Paul Broun drew laughter on Tuesday when asked, “Who is going to shoot Obama?” and the Republican didn’t come anywhere near condemning the question in his response.
“The thing is, I know there’s a lot of frustration with this president,” Broun said, according to the Athens Banner-Herald. “We’re going to have an election next year. Hopefully, we’ll elect somebody that’s going to be a conservative, limited-government president … who will sign a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare.”
The question came after Broun asked who had driven the farthest to be at the Oglethorpe County event, and let that person ask the first question.
Brown’s press secretary, Jessica Morris, confirmed to the paper that the question was asked. “Obviously, the question was inappropriate, so Congressman Broun moved on,” she said. Morris did not immediately respond to POLITICO’s request for comment Friday morning. |
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