Allan Brauer, the communications chair of the Democratic Party of Sacramento County, wished death on the children of a Ted Cruz speechwriter today.

https://twitter.com/allanbrauer/statuses/381090422170202112

https://twitter.com/allanbrauer/statuses/381093025742458880

Brauer is unapologetic, and tried to justify his wish that Carpenter’s children die by citing “the pain her boss is inflicting on Americans.”

I'm being attacked on Twitter for wishing one of Ted Cruz's pubic lice to experience the pain her boss is inflicting on Americans. — Allan Brauer (@allanbrauer) September 20, 2013

Yes, your party takes bread from the mouths of starving children and medicine from the sick, and I'm the problem. Got it. — Allan Brauer (@allanbrauer) September 20, 2013

National Review Online tried to call the Democratic Party of Sacramento, but reached an answering machine.



UPDATE:


Brauer is still defensive.

And then the entire universe of hateful, child-starving, health-care deniers determines that I'm what's wrong with America. — Allan Brauer (@allanbrauer) September 20, 2013

UPDATE: Brauer has apologized. Carpenter has accepted his apology.

Hi @amandacarpenter I am truly sorry for my tweet. I was very upset and lashed out. Your kids are not fair game either. My apologies. — Allan Brauer (@allanbrauer) September 20, 2013

Tenoch Flores, spokesman for the California Democratic Party, told Yahoo! News political reporter Chris Moody that such rhetoric “lets fringe characters” like Ted Cruz “off the hook” and that it was “never acceptable to wish physical harm against political opponents, regardless of how objectionable their policy priorities are.”