Ayotte calls the post "irresponsible and dangerous"
Governor of New Hampshire
“This type of behavior is irresponsible and dangerous. Violent rhetoric has no place in our politics, and threats like this should be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Source and context
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Reports the post and collects same-week reactions from the state Attorney General's office, the Governor, and Democratic party and legislative leaders.
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Links directly to the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire's own X posts and to Jeremy Kauffman's post about the account suspension. Those underlying X posts could not be independently retrieved as of the date accessed, so this article is cited as the source for their wording.
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The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire's account had posted on September 22 that it openly supports the assassination of basically every elected Democrat in New Hampshire.
After the quotation
The state Attorney General's office separately confirmed it was aware of the post.
How this statement is classified
Case context: Was the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire's 'assassination' post a threat of political violence?
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Why this label?
Relative to the fixed reference point, Ayotte rejected the post as irresponsible and dangerous rhetoric and called for legal consequences, which condemns the conduct rather than excusing or minimizing it.
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