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Posted on 06/14/2017 4:51:59 AM PDT by UKrepublican

Chad Pergram‏Verified account @ChadPergram · 3m3 minutes ago

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BREAKING Shooting at Congressional baseball practice. Scalise hit. Other staffers hit. Gunmen with rifle


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: alexandria; civilwar2; congress; insurrection; liberalviolence; noaccountability; noprotection; progressiveviolence; scalise; stevescalise
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1 posted on 06/14/2017 4:51:59 AM PDT by UKrepublican
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To: UKrepublican
FOX & friends‏Verified account @foxandfriends · ep. Steve Scalise, multiple aides shot at Congressional baseball practice, @ChadPergram reports
2 posted on 06/14/2017 4:53:13 AM PDT by UKrepublican (Laurence Norris)
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To: UKrepublican

Now on Fox News.


3 posted on 06/14/2017 4:53:24 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: UKrepublican

FNC: Witnesses report 50+ shots fired.


4 posted on 06/14/2017 4:54:40 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Tear down the Mexican Carrier plant and use the materials to build the wall)
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To: UKrepublican

Per Fox. Shot in hip. 7:15 AM in Alexandria


5 posted on 06/14/2017 4:54:46 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

Report that perp shooter was shot. Possibly dead.


6 posted on 06/14/2017 4:55:57 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Tear down the Mexican Carrier plant and use the materials to build the wall)
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To: UKrepublican

GOP baseball practice. Mo Brooks texted some information to the local Huntsville radio station.


7 posted on 06/14/2017 4:56:12 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: tired&retired

Shooter shot dead by his security detail. Two security also shot.


8 posted on 06/14/2017 4:56:13 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

follow up gunman reported killed by security detail.


9 posted on 06/14/2017 4:56:45 AM PDT by slapshot ( Speaker Ryan is a sober and less tan version of John Boehner)
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To: UKrepublican

It was Gop practice

Scalise house majority whip according to report on twitter


10 posted on 06/14/2017 4:56:45 AM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: UKrepublican

Two Capital police officers shot with Scalise. “Suspect in custody.”


11 posted on 06/14/2017 4:56:49 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: UKrepublican

Brian Kilmeade asking right question. Was practice field reserved

Per FOX via Mike Lee. Shooter dead killed by security (US Capitol Police)

Also Scalise in dugout when shot


12 posted on 06/14/2017 4:57:17 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: tired&retired

reporting Steve Scalise was shot in the hip and expected to be ok.

Scalise has a capitol security detail.


13 posted on 06/14/2017 4:57:32 AM PDT by Whenifhow (when, if and how will Obama be gone?)
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To: UKrepublican
From this month, 2014...

Would be beyond bizarre if it in anyway relates to motive here.

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Inside the Crazy, Competitive World of Congressional Baseball

Alex Rogers
Jun 04, 2014

Any Little League baseball coach knows the challenge. On an amateur team where skill level varies, it’s tough to find the balance between trying to win games and getting everyone playing time. But for the Republican congressional baseball club, a dispute over playing time had members calling for the manager’s head earlier this year.

A “significant” number of the 31 Republican players quietly sought the resignation of Rep. Joe Barton, the 64-year-old Texas Congressman who coaches the team, according to Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.). The players were unhappy with Barton’s philosophy that everyone who has the courage to sign up should get to play under the lights. They are also miffed about Barton’s unusual strategy of employing separate lineups for fielding, batting and pinch running.

“For those of us that never missed practice, and are supposedly the starters, to play one inning?” said one GOP member. “I busted my ass for the last two months. The whole ‘everybody gets a trophy’ model just pissed people off.”

The movement to fire the manager first gained steam after an embarrassing 22-0 loss to Democrats last summer at Nationals Park, which despite the lopsided score raised $300,000 for three Washington, D.C. charities. Many Republicans concede they are doomed in this year’s June 25 rematch. Democratic star Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.), a former college outfielder, is a dominant force on the Congressional mound, with an arsenal that includes a curveball, a change-up and a fastball that can touch the low 80s.

The loss—the GOP’s fifth in a row and their worst in over 85 years—proved so frustrating that some members asked Speaker of the House John Boehner to fire Barton, who has been a part of the game for 28 years. “Where has there been a shortstop that didn’t bat?” asks Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-N.C.), who plays the position. “We had a fielding team, and a batting team, and a running team.”

“Just like they do in the bigs,” he joked.

Barton refused to step down, according to Republican members, but has made a new accommodation this year. He will remain general manager, but Rep. Roger Williams (R-Texas), a former professional baseball player and Texas Christian University coach, would coach. Barton, as tradition dictates, is the one who gets to choose the next manager.

“[Boehner] is the speaker of the House and the Republican leader, but he’s not the owner of the Republican congressional baseball team,” says Barton, who declined to say whether or not the Speaker asked him to resign. “Nor does he consider himself to be,” Barton added. Boehner, through spokesman Michael Steel, declined to comment for this story.

Barton says he understands the frustration felt by his team and he’s making major changes. This year, he has not promised that everyone will have the chance to play, so that “at least on paper” they will have the best chance of winning.

Williams, the new coach, has brought in a few assistants to help him set up the hour and a half practices, which begin at 6:30 a.m. and include batting practice, a bunting station and taking fungoes. The new regime has eased some of the tensions. “I think people knew I was frustrated—hence my absence from some of the practices—but I’m back and happy with things have come about so far,” says Shimkus, who now drives his roommates, Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Steve Scalise (R-La.) in his tan, early-aughts Mazda 626 to the morning practices.

Democrats have watched the spectacle on the GOP with amusement. “I know what [Barton] is trying to do because he’s trying to play everybody,” says Richmond. “But our coach [Pennsylvania Rep. Mike Doyle] is not interested in the social aspect of the game and being fair. He just wants to win.”

As for Barton, he dismisses any talk of resignation. “Oh, I’m asked to step down every week,” he jokes. “As is always the case when you are in a losing streak, there are people that want to change managers. That’s just part of the game.”

http://time.com/2820949/inside-the-crazy-competitive-world-of-congressional-baseball/

14 posted on 06/14/2017 4:57:57 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

Nothing random abt this


15 posted on 06/14/2017 4:58:00 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: UKrepublican
prayers

& skin the shooter...
16 posted on 06/14/2017 4:58:03 AM PDT by novemberslady
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To: UKrepublican

In Virginia? What does Congressional baseball mean?


17 posted on 06/14/2017 4:58:07 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: RummyChick

Steve Scalise: U.S. Rep (R) 1st District Louisiana, House Majority Whip.


18 posted on 06/14/2017 4:58:30 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Tear down the Mexican Carrier plant and use the materials to build the wall)
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To: novemberslady

Fox covering the shooting of Steve Scalise now.

According to Sen. Mike Lee, Scalise was shot in the hip but will be OK; Scalise’s security shot the shooter dead.

Two Capitol Police officers who was there were shot also.

Practicing for a Congressional baseball game in Alexandria,VA.


19 posted on 06/14/2017 4:58:46 AM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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The GOP whip was shot in the dugout.

Perp is reported dead by Congressman, LEO says
perp is in custody.

===> Americans BLAME the Secret Service for doing nothing
after allowing acting-murders of Pres. Trump, over and over.


20 posted on 06/14/2017 4:59:29 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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