Secret Service Visits GOP Candidate Who Wants Obama Executed

Here is an example of a hard-right candidate who really, really needs a campaign manager to teach them the basics of managing his mouth:

The U.S. Secret Service paid a visit to the Florida state House candidate who advocated for President Barack Obama’s execution on Twitter.

Joshua Black, a Republican who is running in Florida House District 68, told the Tampa Bay Times that Secret Service agents had come to his home following the uproar over his comments.

“I’m past impeachment. It’s time to arrest him and hang him high,” read a message on Black’s campaign Twitter page Monday.

“It was not a threat,” Black told the Times, asserting that the comments were a response to Obama ordering drone strikes that had killed Americans.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) also called on Black to withdraw his candidacy.

By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.