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Multiple campaign signs and posters, including some supporting President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, adorn the front window of the Montgomery County Democratic Committee’s Norristown office. (NBC10)
The FBI confirmed Friday that it has joined local authorities in investigating three bullets fired into the Montgomery County Democratic Committee office in Norristown hours before the presidential inauguration on Wednesday.
No one was inside the office at the time. The incident occurred roughly a week after the office received a threatening email regarding “a stolen election.”
“It is not known if the threatening email is related to this incident,” Norristown Police Chief Mark Talbot in a statement Thursday.
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Updated on January 21, 2021 at 1:35 pm
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Inauguration Day, which should have been a triumphant day for the Montgomery County Democratic Committee, ended up being one of worry after the group’s office was shot up following emailed threats referencing a stolen election.
Three bullet holes riddled the front windows of the Norristown building on E. Airy Street. Officers were alerted around 4:45 p.m. Wednesday after Brian Levy, the committee’s executive director, called in the shooting, Norristown Police Department Chief Mark Talbot said.
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“While [Wednesday] was a good day for the nation and the rule of law, I regret to inform you that also [Wednesday] someone shot three bullets into the office of MCDC through the front window,” committee Chairman Joe Foster said in a statement.
The Democratic Committee chairs in 7 Roanoke and New River Valley localities are now calling on 6th district U.S. Representative Ben Cline and 9th District GOP Congressman Morgan Griffith to, “immediately resign after their failure to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.” The joint letter says Cline and Griffith “have instead supported Trump’s baseless conspiracy theories … and by doing so, “they helped feed unrest … which boiled over in a violent and shameful insurrection at the Capitol.” Both Cline and Griffith have said they had legitimate concerns about election integrity.
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January 7, 2020 – Democratic committees in the southwest Virginia area, in view of the shocking January 6, 2021 takeover of the United States Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump, call upon U.S. Rep. Ben Cline (R-6th District) and U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-9th District) to immediately resign after their failure to support and defend the Cons