Texas Democratic State Sen. Wendy Davis’ Fort Worth Office Firebombed

[RandySF]

FORT WORTH — Police are trying to identify the man who entered the West 7th office of State Sen. Wendy Davis Tuesday afternoon and threw two firebombs just outside the door.

Two staffers were in the third floor office when the attack occurred around 4 o'clock. One of them had to leap over the flames to escape, then went to the break room, grabbed an extinguisher and put out the fire.

Investigators said Sen. Davis was not in the office at the time of the incident, but was at her law office closer to downtown Fort Worth.

A staffer told News 8 the Democratic lawmaker was alerted about what happened and that security at Davis' other local office was tightened as a result.


http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Suspect-throws-firebombs-into-FW-office-of-state-lawmaker-143567356.html

[n2doc]

1. The nutcases are coming out of the woodwork n/t

[StopTheNeoCons]

2. Domestic terrorism

Right wing terrorists

[Justice wanted]

3. WTF?! We are slowly being driven into craziness. More acts of violence for what? We are seeing a

break down in society.

[w8liftinglady]

4. Ft Worth is home to plenty of Hate Groups

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map


Also,this week marks the anniversary of the raid on The Rainbow Lounge in Ft Worth-lots of glbt hate
(her district)
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2012/03/15/rainbow-lounge-raid-documentary-premieres-in-fort-worth/

Also,at UT Arlington (down the road),Eric Holder stressed Zero Tolerance for glbt bullying
http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/03/20/3822733/building-safe-schools-focus-of.html

Also,texas redrew their districts,giving Democrats hope for three Blue seats in Congress...


Lots of hate to go around here in DFW

[arely staircase]

5. correct

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skinheads in dfw would not be a surprise - like, say, a democratic woman state rep. from ft. worth.

edited to say: i'm not familiar with the district, just seems counterintuitive. i have always thought of ft. worth as cowboy town/conservative-libertarian.

[Initech]

6. Good god - it's as if they're trying to start a civil war

[freshwest]

9. Hate Radio has been fomenting that since Clinton. Non-stop. Now they've got an entire generation,

Steeped in vitiriol, calling for killing liberals, progressives, Democrats, etc. This has escalated with Obama's election and the Tea Baggers getting their way in so many states. A true regression.

[ellisonz]

7. Right-wing terrorists.

[gratuitous]

8. Oh well, no biggie

I mean, it's not like someone made a tweet about a Republican. That would require the Full Fox Treatment and several days' worth of commentary from that vile human being.

[Julian Englis]

10. Kicked & recommended n/t