By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
Associated Press Writer
SPOKANE, Wash. – A speaker at an eastern Washington “tea party” gathering called for one of the state’s Democratic U.S. senators to be hanged, drawing laughter and applause from the crowd.
The comments about Sen. Patty Murray were made by an unidentified woman Saturday in Clarkston, and were captured by local television station KLEW of Lewiston, Idaho.
Speaking from the podium, the woman told the crowd that Murray should suffer the same fate as the character Jake in the western “Lonesome Dove.” She said: “He got hung. And that’s what I want to do with Patty Murray.”