US EditionHelena Candidate Faces Backlash Over Voicemail Wishing Cancer on Sen. Sheehy as Recording Surfaces on Election Eve
Candidate Haley McKnight defended her July voicemail threatening Senator Sheehy, citing justified rage over healthcare reforms affecting 17 million Americans, as election day neared.
- On Monday, U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy's office issued a release linking to a National Review article that recounted a threatening voicemail earlier this year left at his Helena district office by Haley McKnight, a candidate for Helena city commission.
- McKnight called Sheehy’s Helena district office on July 1 after the Senate advanced the Republican-backed One Big Bill and said Sheehy’s votes stripped away health care for 17 million Americans.
- The voicemail included threats like `I hope that you die in the street like a dog` and `one day you're gonna live to regret this`, according to the posted recording on National Review's website.
- After the voicemail surfaced, the senator's office said it had notified law enforcement; Haley McKnight told MTN Monday the call was not intended as a threat and she does not wish the senator harm.
- The controversy surfaced a day before the Nov. 4 all-mail Helena election where Haley McKnight is one of four candidates vying for two city commission seats, and she claims the timing seemed politically motivated with numerous death threats since.
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Montana Democrat who sent violent threats to Tim Sheehy loses her election and job
A Montana Democrat lost her election and job after her voicemail of violent threats to Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) was revealed. Haley McKnight, a former store manager of the retail gift shop Sage and Oats Trading Post in Helena, Montana, was running as a Democratic candidate for the Helena City Commission. On Monday, just one day before the election, a July 2 voicemail she left for Sheehy, in which she identified herself by her first and last name, …
The death threat of a Dem candidate backfires and leads to a crushing electoral defeat
After sending a threatening, unhinged voicemail in July to Senator Tim Sheehy of the Republican Party (MT), a Democratic Party legislator suffered a devastating electoral defeat. Haley McKnight is a candidate running for the position of city commissioner of Helena, Montana’s capital. She sent the voicemail shortly after Sheehy, along with the vast majority of […]
Dem Candidate's Death Threat Backfires, Leads To Crushing Electoral Defeat
A Democratic Party lawmaker suffered a crushing electoral defeat and is out of her job after sending an unhinged, threatening voicemail to Senator Tim Sheehy (R-MT) this past July. The voicemail, which was sent shortly after Sheehy and the majority of his Republican colleagues advanced the Trump-backed “Big Beautiful Bill” spending package that enshrined a number of the president’s most important campaign promises, was sent by Haley McKnight, a …
Democrat Politician Caught Leaving Horrible, Threatening Voicemail Targeting Republican Senator - The American Tribune.com
In a vile breach of decorum, Helena City, Montana, Commission Candidate Haley McKnight allegedly left a nasty voicemail replete with death threats and ill wishes for Senator Tim Sheehy (R), in which she hoped for him to catch cancer and made a series of other aggressive remarks directed toward him. As could be expected, reacting to this egregious message, conservatives were enraged and responded with a series of condemnations and hilarious retor…
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