Sanders Disavows Gunman's Support, Raised Money Blaming GOP For Giffords' Shooting
http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/14/sanders-disavows-gunmans-support-raised-money-blaming-gop-for-giffords-shooting/
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders blamed right-wing political rhetoric for the 2011 shooting of former Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords in a fundraising email sent just days after the incident.
Sanders' name emerged in connection with Wednesday's shooting at a practice of the Republican congressional baseball team in Alexandria, Va., which left House Majority Whip Steve Scalise in critical condition at George Washington University Hospital.
The shooter, James T. Hodgkinson, was a devoted follower of the senator, according to his social media activities. Press reports quickly identified him as a volunteer on Sanders' ill-fated presidential campaign, and Hodgkinson's Facebook profile picture was an image of the senator's visage transposed over Uncle Sam. ...
Here's Bernie's e-mail from 2001:
In light of all of this violence - both actual and threatened - is Arizona a state in which people who are not Republicans are able to participate freely and fully in the democratic process? Have right-wing reactionaries, through threats and acts of violence, intimidated people with different points of view from expressing their political positions? My colleague, Senator John McCain, issued a very strong statement after the shooting in which he condemned the perpetrator of the attack. I commend him for that. But I believe Senator McCain and other Arizona Republicans need to do more. As the elder statesman of Arizona politics McCain needs to stand up and denounce the increasingly violent rhetoric coming from the right-wing and exert his influence to create a civil political environment in his state.
So, now that your other foot is also in your big, fat, hypocritical mouth, Bernie ... where's your public statement about whether Virginia is a state in which people who are not Democrats are able to participate freely and fully in a baseball practice without getting shot? Where's your statement about how Gov. McAuliffe and other Democrats need to denounce the increasingly violent rhetoric coming from the left-wing and exert their influence to create a civil political environment where views other than Dimocrat-groupthink are allowed? Huh, Bernie? What's the matter, Bernie ... cat got your tongue?
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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