Editing Eric Cantor (section)

==Threats and campaign office incident==
After the passage of the [[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act|health care reform bill]] in March 2010, Cantor reported that somebody had shot a bullet through a window of his campaign office in [[Richmond, Virginia]]. A spokesman for the Richmond police later stated that the bullet was not intentionally fired at Cantor's office, saying that it was instead random gunfire, as there were no signs outside the office identifying the office as being Cantor's.<ref name="random fire">{{cite news|url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/03/police_say_gunfire_that_hit_ca.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811203916/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/03/police_say_gunfire_that_hit_ca.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 11, 2011|title=Police say gunfire that hit Cantor's office was random|last=Kumar|first=Anita|date=March 26, 2010|work=Virginia Politics Blog|access-date=March 26, 2010}}</ref>
Cantor responded to this by saying that [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] leaders in the House should stop "dangerously fanning the flames" by blaming Republicans for threats against House Democrats who voted for the health care legislation.<ref name="bullet">{{cite news|url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2010/03/cantor-reports-bullet-being-fired-at-campaign-office/1|title=Rep. Cantor reports bullet hit campaign office|last=Kelley|first=Matt|date=March 24, 2010|work=ONPOLITICS|access-date=March 26, 2010}}</ref>

Cantor also reported that he had received threatening e-mails related to the passage of the bill.<ref name="fox bullet">{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cantor-says-campaign-office-was-shot-at-accuses-dems-of-exploiting-threats/|title=Cantor Says Campaign Office Was Shot At, Accuses Dems of Exploiting Threats|last=Pergram|first=Chad|author2=Turner, Trish|date=March 25, 2010|publisher=Fox News Channel|access-date=March 27, 2010}}</ref> In March 2010, a person was arrested for making threats against Cantor and his family.<ref name="Leboon Arrest">{{cite news|url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/35152.html|title=Man arrested for Eric Cantor death threat|last=Sherman|first=Jake|date=March 29, 2010|publisher=POLITICO}}</ref>

In 2011, Cantor received two threatening phone calls from a person who left "screaming, profanity-laden messages [that] stated that he was going to destroy Cantor, rape his daughter and kill his wife." Swift was sentenced in April 2012 to 13 months in federal prison.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/11/glendon-swift-of-tennessee-arrested-for-threatening-to-destroy-eric-cantor/ |title=Glendon Swift of Tennessee Arrested for Threatening to 'Destroy' Eric Cantor|work=ABC News |date=November 3, 2011 |access-date=August 10, 2014}}</ref>