Police arrested a man accused of making death threats over the phone against a GOP lawmaker who voted in support of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.
Kenneth Gasper, 64, from Long Island, was arrested Wednesday and charged with aggravated assault after he allegedly called in death threats to the office of Republican Rep. Andrew Garbarino Monday, according to the Nassau County Police Department, the New York Post reported. Gasper had allegedly made the threats because he didn’t agree with how Garbarino had voted.
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Garbarino was one of 13 Republicans who bucked the party line and voted in favor of the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
The defecting Republicans attracted backlash from grassroots activists and wealthy donors, as well as right-wing members such as Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who praised the six Democratic members who voted against the measure.
Garbarino blasted the “great deal of partisan rhetoric being thrown around” regarding the bill.
“The bipartisan infrastructure bill will not raise taxes or increase costs to American families. What it will do is allocate $24.9 billion for New York highways, bridges, and transit, provide $15 billion to replace lead service lines for New York drinking water, grant $470 million to New York’s MacArthur, Republic, LaGuardia, and JFK airports, and fund many other vital infrastructure projects that Long Island residents desperately need,” he wrote in a statement.
My statement on today’s vote for the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. pic.twitter.com/o2LzLpDc8k
— Rep. Andrew Garbarino (@RepGarbarino) November 6, 2021
Other members of Congress have received death threats in recent weeks. Last month, a man was arrested after allegedly threatening to “put a bullet in” Rep. Matt Gaetz shortly after the Jan. 6 riot.
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Gasper is due in Nassau’s First District Court on Nov. 24.
The Washington Examiner reached out to Andrew Garbarino and the Nassau Police for comment but did not receive responses.
