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Rep. Bacon says his wife slept with loaded gun after ‘ugly phone calls’ over his Speaker vote

thehill.com Rep. Bacon says his wife slept with loaded gun after ‘ugly phone calls’ over his Speaker vote

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said Thursday his wife slept with a loaded gun after receiving more threatening phone calls from voters who were angry that he voted against Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-Ohio) Speak…

Rep. Bacon says his wife slept with loaded gun after ‘ugly phone calls’ over his Speaker vote

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said Thursday his wife slept with a loaded gun after receiving more threatening phone calls from voters who were angry that he voted against Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-Ohio) Speakership bid.

“She had terrible phone calls,” Bacon told reporters. “I didn’t sleep well last night. I called her, and I go, ‘How you doing?’ She goes, ‘I slept really good. I had wa loaded gun.’”

“So there were some, it was ugly phone calls,” he added.

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