{"id":734,"date":"2021-08-24T19:43:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T19:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plutchaknews.com\/newsroom\/?p=734"},"modified":"2021-08-24T20:13:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T20:13:51","slug":"west-bend-man-cited-following-alleged-threat-against-nelson-for-senate-campaign-volunteer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plutchaknews.com\/newsroom\/2021\/08\/24\/west-bend-man-cited-following-alleged-threat-against-nelson-for-senate-campaign-volunteer\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bend man cited following alleged threat against Nelson for Senate campaign volunteer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WEST BEND &#8212; A West Bend man was arrested and issued a citation for disorderly conduct after allegedly threatening a campaign volunteer for\u00a0Democratic <a href=\"https:\/\/nelsonforwi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. Senate candidate Tom Nelson.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident took place Saturday morning outside Democratic Party headquarters in West Bend during a campaign stop as part of Nelson&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/plutchaknews.com\/newsroom\/2021\/08\/10\/senate-candidate-nelson-to-visit-all-of-wisconsins-72-counties-aug-14\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tour of all 72-Wisconsin counties.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<!-- mobile ads -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3284153226269014\" data-ad-slot=\"9825659668\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a post on his Facebook page, Nelson placed the blame on those who he says are inciting violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;On Saturday, a right-wing moron told one of my volunteers that we deserved to be shot in the head,&#8221; Nelson wrote. &#8220;Republicans like Senator Ron Johnson who hype up lies &amp; incite violence are responsible.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It won\u2019t intimidate us,&#8221; Nelson said. &#8220;Our tour of every Wisconsin county continues.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/2021\/08\/23\/west-bend-man-issued-citation-after-confronting-tom-nelson-campaign-volunteer\/8244460002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JSOnline.com reports <\/a>that according to the police report, the volunteer said the man told him, &#8220;Treason is a capital punishment you should all have bullets in your heads, including you.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police told the paper that the suspect, Michael J. Richter, was arrested, brought to the police department, issued a citation for disorderly conduct and released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richter denied he said anything about putting a bullet in someone&#8217;s head and was not armed, the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nelson, the current Outagamie County Executive, was the first Democrat to announce his run for the Senate seat currently held by Republican Ron Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson has yet to announce if he will run for re-election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(The author, Dan Plutchak, has endorsed Tom Nelson for U.S. Senate.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A West Bend man was arrested and issued a citation for disorderly conduct after allegedly threatening a campaign volunteer for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tom Nelson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.8 - 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