Woman faces charges for alleged threats to kill Wisconsin lawmakers

Budget battles in the 'Bust Belt'STORY HIGHLIGHTSShe is accused of sending threatening e-mails to 16 Wisconsin state senatorsSome of the e-mails have threats to kill the senators and their families, authorities sayThe suspect was upset over the law to limit collective bargaining, authorities saySenator: "It's hard to know how serious some of this stuff is"Read more about this story from CNN affiliate WKOW.

(CNN) -- A Wisconsin woman, apparently enraged over the new state law that limits collective bargaining for government workers, is being accused of sending e-mails to 16 Republican state senators threatening to kill them.

Katherine Windels, 26, faces four counts of using a computer to threaten, injure, or harm and creating a bomb scare, authorities said.

A criminal complaint released by the Dane County District Attorney's Office alleges that the woman from Cross Plains, Wisconsin, admitted to the threats. She said she sent the e-mails because she was angry at lawmakers who voted to limit collective bargaining for about 300,000 state workers.

Windels, according to the complaint, used two separate e-mail accounts to send e-mails to the Republican state senators including one to Sen. Robert Cowles on March 9.

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