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This picture provided on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 by the Monroe County Democratic Committee in Rochester, N.Y. shows damage to their office after a glass door was struck with a brick with a note reading "Exremism in Defense of Liberty Is no Vice" sometime from late Saturday, March 20, 2010 or Sunday, March 21, 2010. Bricks have been hurled through Democrats' windows, a propane line was cut at the home of a congressman's brother and lawmakers who voted for a federal health care bill have received phone threats in the days before and after passage of the sweeping legislation. (AP Photo/Monroe County Democratic Committee)
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Perry condemns threats
March 25, 2010 11:34 AM
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a vociferous critic of the federal health care overhaul, says some of the overheated rhetoric against it has gone too far.
He told reporters Thursday that, "Once you cross the line of passionate to threatening, then you've got problems."
The conservative Republican governor says he was troubled by reports that members of Congress had faced threats and obscenity-laced tirades from opponents of the health legislation.
In his words, "I don't care which side of the debate you're on. If these remarks are as caustic as they've been reported, they're inappropriate."
Perry says he welcomed some of the changes in the bill but that "the bad outweighs the good."
