Authorities on Thursday charged a 22-year-old woman for allegedly threatening to murder Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn.
The woman, Penelope Convertino, allegedly left a threatening voice message on the voicemail for Blackburn’s Nashville satellite Senate office on May 30, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee. Convertino was arrested Thursday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
In the voice message, Convertino allegedly said: “My name is motherfucker and I’m gonna kill Marsha Blackburn. I’m gonna shoot her with a gun. I’m gonna blow up her head on national TV. She will literally have brains splattered behind her because she will not be a person. She will be a dead fucking body,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.
“Our public officials should be able to do their jobs without receiving vile death threats,” Acting U.S. Attorney Robert E. McGuire said in a statement. “Threatening public officials with deadly violence cannot and will not be tolerated. We will not hesitate to hold those who make these kinds of violent threats accountable for their crimes.”
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Author: Marty Kaufmann
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