Tag Archives: Angie Craig

Courthouse News reports: A man who assaulted a congresswoman in her apartment building in February was sentenced to 27 months in prison on Thursday. Kendrid Hamlin, a 27-year-old homeless man who suffers from schizophrenia, followed Representative Angie Craig, a Democrat from Minnesota, into an elevator, where first he said he needed to get into her apartment, then punched her in …

CBS News reports: Rep. Angie Craig has received a deluge of politically violent and vulgar messages following her attack in her Washington, D.C., apartment building, messages her office says came after a Fox News segment criticizing Democrats for their policing policies. Audio released by Craig’s office includes vulgar and violent messages, including, “I hope the f*****s get you again,” and, …

Chris Johnson reports at the Washington Blade: A lesbian candidate running for a U.S. House seat in Minnesota has unseated an anti-LGBT lawmaker from the U.S. House, making her poised to become the first openly gay mother in Congress. At a around 8:15 local time, major media outlets declared Angie Craig, a business executive who’s also mother, the winner in …