SPOKANE, Wash. — An organizer of a weekend “Tea Party” gathering in eastern Washington drew applause from the crowd Saturday by calling for one of the state’s Democratic U.S. senators to be hanged.
But Dianne Capps of Clarks ton said Thursday that her remark about Sen. Patty Murray was taken out of context and that what she meant was that Murray should be voted out of office in November.
While speaking to the crowd from the podium Saturday, Capps said Murray should suffer the same fate as the character Jake in the western “Lonesome Dove.”
“What happened to Jake when he ran with the wrong crowd?” Capps asked. “He got hung. And that’s what I want to do with Patty Murray.”
Capps, who initially denied that she was the speaker, said Thursday night that the rest of the statement was that she wanted to “hang Patty Murray, by vote.”
