<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>From ABC News:</span></div><blockquote><div style="padding-top: 15px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Hours after Pennsylvania State Police arrested a 21-year-old Idaho man for allegedly <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/white-house-shooting-suspect-ramiro-ortega-hernandez-arrested/story?id=14966099#.TsQa7HKVo-I" target="_blank" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(48, 101, 156); outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">firing a semi-automatic rifle at the White House</a>,
the top student official for the College Republicans at the University
of Texas tweeted that the idea of assassinating President Obama was
“tempting.”</div><div style="padding-top: 15px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">At
2:29 p.m. ET, UT’s Lauren E. Pierce wrote: “Y’all as tempting as it may
be, don’t shoot Obama. We need him to go down in history as the WORST
president we’ve EVER had! #2012.”</div><div style="padding-top: 15px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Pierce,
the president of the College Republicans at UT Austin, told ABC News
the comment was a “joke” and that the “whole [shooting incident] was
stupid.” Giggling, she said that an attempted assassination would “only
make the situation worse.”</div><div style="padding-top: 15px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">“Insofar
as she’s a representative [of the College Republicans], maybe it
shouldn’t be said, but she’s made a positive statement in a way, ” said
Cassie Wright, the group’s vice president.</div><div style="padding-top: 15px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">“I
don’t really see anything wrong with it,” Wright added. “It’s just a
personal comment, not representative of any group. Just freedom of
speech, you know?”</div></blockquote><div><br><span></span></div><div><span></span></div><div> </div><div>Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA</div></div></body></html>