MAN HELD IN THREATENING GAY, SOCIALIST OFFICIALS{seattle}

[xchrom]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MAYOR_COUNCILWOMAN_THREATS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-01-18-00-55-28

SEATTLE (AP) -- A 32-year-old man accused of threatening Seattle's openly gay mayor and a socialist City Council member in Facebook postings was ordered held in jail Friday on $600,000 bail.

Mitchell Munro Taylor of Seattle was arrested Thursday night, two days after Mayor Ed Murray's staff found more than 20 threatening, anti-gay postings from the man's account on Murray's Facebook page, court documents said.

One post said "Mayor, meet Harvey Milk," a reference to a gay rights activist and San Francisco board of supervisors member who was fatally shot in 1978, The Seattle Times reported ( HTTP://IS.GD/ATEONF ).

Another post on the mayor's page said "death to socialist council member." Kshama Sawant is the first socialist City Council member in Seattle's modern history. While she was not named directly, police said they think she was the target of that post.

[dlwickham]

1. I find it interesting that the headline mentions gay and socialist

you never see a headline mentioning straight and capitalist and yes I know that you took the headline straight from the article

[Old Union Guy]

2. If that's what the criminal says he was after, the headline is legit ...

Gotta wonder where he got the idea, though.