{"id":146,"date":"2022-12-08T04:14:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T04:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2022-12-08T04:25:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T04:25:46","slug":"california-state-senator-scott-wiener-receives-bomb-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/2022\/12\/california-state-senator-scott-wiener-receives-bomb-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"California State Senator Scott Wiener Receives Bomb Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was reported on Tuesday, December 7th, 2022, that California State Senator Scott Wiener, an openly gay elected official, had a bomb threat among an email with homophobic slurs. It was also stated this was the second time a bomb threat had been placed against him. These events appear to have transpired after Wiener became a focus of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and other conservative activists on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read More:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NBC News, Matt Lavietes, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nbc-out\/out-politics-and-policy\/gay-california-lawmaker-receives-2nd-bomb-threat-year-rcna60530\">Gay California legislator gets 2nd bomb threat this year<\/a>&#8221; (December 7, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PinkNews, Jake McKee, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepinknews.com\/2022\/12\/07\/scott-weiner-bomb-threat-groomer\/\">Gay senator Scott Wiener receives terrifying bomb threat after calling out DC \u2018homophobia\u2019<\/a>&#8221; (December 7, 2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California State Senator Scott Wiener, an openly gay elected official, has received two death threats this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[72,73,52,7,8,9,65,76,77,71,74,78,79,38,75],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbtqia-news","tag-california-state-legislature","tag-california-state-senate","tag-gay","tag-lgbt","tag-lgbtq","tag-lgbtqia","tag-nbc-news","tag-pinknews","tag-representative-marjorie-taylor-greene","tag-california","tag-ca-state-senator-scott-wiener","tag-u-s-congress","tag-u-s-house-of-representatives","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-usa","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.lgbt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}