The Tug reveals unredacted and unedited version of Ned Raynolds comments

The Tug has uncovered the uncut version of the recent NHPR article on the Ned Raynolds/Jason Osborne fiasco. Here is the unredacted and original version:

Democratic state Rep. Ned Raynolds of Portsmouth is resisting calls by New Hampshire House Republicans for him to resign after Raynolds told House Majority Leader Jason Osborne he’d “challenge him to a duel by the highest gentlemen's standards” in downtown Portsmouth.

Raynolds confirmed he sent a private Facebook message to Osborne, a Republican, after learning he did not individually condemn a recent New Hampshire Libertarian Party social media post endorsing political violence against Democrats.

“How about this, you surly ill-breeding horn-beast? Come on over to Portsmouth and meet me in the middle of Market Square,” Raynolds wrote to Osborne in part on Saturday, Sept. 26. “Your choice, pistols at dawn, or by the epee. I’ve been trained by the Duffy, you shall not live the day, you errant guts-griping pignut! We’ll circle the carriages, and I’ll put you on the ground and make a ruin of your visage, you mammering tardy-gaited gudgeon! Thou shalt eat the filth of city!”

Multiple Republican state representatives on Monday, Sept. 28, released statements imploring House Minority Leader Alexis Simpson, a Democrat from Exeter, to publicly call on Raynolds to resign. Raynolds responded in an interview that he would not step down, even if he is asked by Simpson.