While talking to an office intern, the man threatened to "shoot [Blumenthal's] ... brains out" if the senator raised his taxes, said the Hartford Courant.
Rowland Edwin Dodge Jr., 62, of Matthews, N.C., was charged with threatening a federal official, according to the Courant.
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