Today in "is this even real life" news, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Georgia Republican lawmaker Jason Spencer warned a Democratic former colleague who criticized his support for Civil War monuments on Facebook that she won’t be “met with torches but something a lot more definitive” if she continues to call for the removal of statues in south Georgia.

“This is Georgia’s history,” Spencer wrote in a post accompanied by a selfie he took with a South Georgia monument to Confederate president Jefferson Davis.

Former state Rep. LaDawn Jones, who represented an Atlanta-based district from 2012 to 2016, criticized the post. She questioned whether state tax dollars help pay for the upkeep of the memorial, which includes the house Davis fled to after the Civil War ended. A few comments late, Spencer produced some threatening allusions. 

He wrote that “people in South Georgia are people of action, not drama” and suggested some who don’t understand that “will go missing in the Okefenokee.”

“Enjoy but know … WINTER IS COMING,” Jones wrote back. “You know it too … otherwise, you wouldn’t have found a need to even make this post or those hollow threats of not coming to south GA.”

Spencer has gone on to clarify that his words weren't meant to be threatening, but rather a warning.

 “She is from Atlanta – and the rest of Georgia sees this issue very differently,” said Spencer, who was elected in 2010 to represent the southeast Georgia district. “Just trying to keep her safe if she decided to come down and raise hell about the memorial in the back yards of folks who will see this as an unwelcome aggression from the left.”

In true "I'm not racist" fashion, Spencer even provided AJC with a picture of himself next to the Martin Luther King Jr. monument that was unveiled Monday at Georgia's State Capitol. 

However, Jones did go on to clarify that she sat next to Spencer for four years in the Georgia House and that they developed a friendly, if sometimes testy, relationship.

“If it were anybody other than Jason Spencer, then I would be alarmed. But we had a unique relationship in the Georgia Legislature,” Jones said. “If that had come from anybody else, I’d take it as a serious threat.”

She still added that she was “concerned” by his reaction.

“Because if that’s representative of what people in south Georgia think, then yikes.”