North Dakota Rep. Julie Fedorchak’s conversation with Scott Hennen on “What’s On Your Mind?”
NORTH DAKOTA – North Dakota Congresswoman Julie Fedorchak says the killing of Minnesota Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark and the shooting of State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, are making it a scary time for her and her family.
Fedorchak calls the shootings “a wake up call that everybody is vulnerable” but says she isn’t aware of any threats against her. She adds rhetoric used by people on her Facebook page is harsher than it may have been in the last few years.
“People feel they have more of a right to go off and take things to a different level. We’re being deliberate and intentional about protections. Especially when we’re in district. It’s not going to be onerous or over the top, but we’re going to be intentional about it,” Fedorchak explained.
Fedorchak says she has friends in Congress and in the Minnesota Legislature who are in a manifesto police say the man charged in the shootings, Vance Boelter, had in his vehicle.
“It’s unfathomable to me. That same thing has happened to me in the past. Law enforcement has run my doorbell in the middle of the night. It’s so evil. I can’t even think about it,” Fedorchak said.
