{"id":359211,"date":"2018-05-01T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-brooks-suggests-republicans-are-retiring-because-of-assassination-fears\/"},"modified":"2018-05-01T13:46:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T12:46:00","slug":"prison-planet-com-brooks-suggests-republicans-are-retiring-because-of-assassination-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-brooks-suggests-republicans-are-retiring-because-of-assassination-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Brooks Suggests Republicans Are Retiring Because of Assassination Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/politics\/mo-brooks-says-republicans-are-resigning-because-of-assassination-fears\"><strong>Roll Call<\/strong><\/a><br \/>April 30, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks suggested in a radio interview that Republicans are retiring en masse because of assassination fears.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/hoh\/with-the-first-practice-done-gop-baseball-team-ready-to-focus-on-baseball\" shape=\"rect\">Brooks was speaking on \u201cThe Dale Jackson Show\u201d about the first Republican practice the Congressional Baseball Game <\/a>after last year\u2019s shooting that left Majority Whip Steve Scalise severely injured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have multiple rings of security, plainclothes, uniform, Capitol Police, other police,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was a medical vehicle nearby just in case there was a copycat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Brooks said while there were multiple factors that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/politics\/ryan-retirement-uncertainty-2018\" shape=\"rect\">contributed to a slew of Republicans leaving the House<\/a>, he\u00a0suggested fears of violence\u00a0was a major one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things that\u2019s concerning me is the assassination risk may become a factor,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/politics\/mo-brooks-says-republicans-are-resigning-because-of-assassination-fears\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Monday, April 30, 2018  at  7:26 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/brooks-suggests-republicans-are-retiring-because-of-assassination-fears.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/brooks-suggests-republicans-are-retiring-because-of-assassination-fears.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roll CallApril 30, 2018 Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks suggested in a radio interview that Republicans are retiring en masse because of assassination fears. Brooks was speaking on \u201cThe Dale Jackson Show\u201d about the first Republican practice the Congressional Baseball Game after last year\u2019s shooting that left Majority Whip Steve Scalise severely injured. \u201cWe have multiple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-359211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}