共和党策略师卡尔·罗夫周六对德克萨斯州的听众表示，在他宣布30年来首次投票给民主党人后，有人对他发出了“可信威胁”。
Republican strategist Karl Rove told a Texas audience Saturday that “credible threats” were made against him after he declared he was voting for a Democrat for the first time in 30 years.
罗夫参加了《德克萨斯论坛报》节的问答环节，期间他对共和党人——包括唐纳德·特朗普总统——指责他是“RINO”（仅有名无实的共和党人），以及那些因他谴责德州共和党人而威胁他的人，进行了一番愤怒的抨击。
Rove participated in a question-and-answer session for the Texas Tribune Festival when he went on a rant against Republicans, including President Donald Trump, for calling him a “RINO,” or Republican In Name Only, and those who threatened him for denouncing Texas Republicans.
“我看看这些人，他们说，哦，我是‘假共和党人’。真的吗？当我们奋斗、拼搏建设这个共和党时，你们在哪里？你们在哪里？”罗夫高声说道。
“I look at these people and they say, well I’m a RINO. Really? Where were you would we were fighting and scrapping to build this Republican Party? Where were you?” Rove exclaimed.
“你们知道吗，这些人到底在哪里筹钱——2020年，我跑到外面去，从德州以外的人那里筹集了1300万美元，用于协助德州众议院竞选。这些王八蛋到底在哪里？别来教训我！我以志愿者身份运营一个选民登记项目。我每年筹集60万、70万、80万美元，甚至100万美元来做这件事。仅这一个周期就登记了22万名新共和党人。自2019年启动以来，我们已登记了80多万名新共和党人。这些王八蛋到底在哪里？”罗夫说道。
“You know, where were these people out there raising — in 2020, I went out and raised $13 million from people outside of Texas to help on the Texas State House races. Where were these sons of btches? Don’t lecture me! I run a voter registration project as a volunteer. I raise 6-, 7-, 800,000, a million dollars a year in order to do it. That hased 220,000 new Republicans this cycle. We haveed over 800,000 new Republicans since we began in 2019. Where are these sons of btches?” Rove said.
“他们就坐在那里听塔克·卡尔森瞎嚷嚷。或者收听斯蒂夫·班农的节目。他们懒得走访选区、筹集资金、做必要的工作。却在那儿对我嘴上功夫一套套的，跟我说话，说我是‘假共和党人’？去他们的，”罗夫在观众的掌声中说道。
“They’re sitting there listening to Tucker Carlson mouth off. Or they’re tuning in to Steve Bannon. They can’t be bothered to walk the precincts, raise the money, do the work necessary. And they’re mouthing me and talking to me, and telling me I’m a RINO? To hell with them,” Rove said to audience applause.
“我确实想感谢他们，”罗夫继续说道。“他们在我宣布要投票给约翰·罗森塔尔（民主党人）后发出的威胁，确实让我得到了州公安部（DPS）在家门口驻守了一周的保护，理由是所谓的‘可信威胁’，但他们不告诉我细节。我真想找到发出那些‘可信威胁’的人，在某个黑巷子里会会那王八蛋！”罗夫称罗森塔尔的共和党对手博·弗伦奇是个“偏执狂”，不配担任德克萨斯州铁路委员会委员。
“I do want to thank them,” Rove continued. “The threats that they made in the aftermath of my saying I was going to vote for John Rosenthal (D) did get me DPS parked outside my house for a week because of quote ‘credible threats’ that they won’t tell me. I’d like to find who issued those credible threats, and meet that sumab*tch in a dark alley someplace!” Rove called Rosenthal’s Republican opponent Bo French a “bigot,” who was undeserving of the office of the Texas Railroad Commission.
罗夫表示，这些威胁“成了一种激励”，促使他撰写了《华尔街日报》专栏文章《我为什么要投票给一位德克萨斯州民主党人》。他说：“我想，如果有个家伙因为听说我发表了评论就威胁我，还威胁一群立法者，那管他的呢？既来之，则安之。”
Rove said the threats “served as an incentive” to write his Wall Street Journal column, “Why I’m Voting For a Texas Democrat.” “I said, if some guy’s gonna be hearing about me making a comment and threatening me, and threatening a bunch of legislators, what the hell? In for a penny, in for a pound,” Rove said.
他补充说，他“很享受”有DPS警官在身边，但拒绝透露是否仍有警官驻守在他家门口。
He added that he “enjoyed” having the DPS officer around, but wouldn’t say whether one was still posted at his house.
“更妙的是，我有位邻居就坐在台下观众席里，他也帮我照应着呢，”罗夫说。
“Better than that, I got my neighbor who’s sitting in the audience here, and he looks out for me, too,” Rove said.
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