House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) is currently undergoing surgery after being shot Wednesday morning at a Republican congressional baseball team practice outside of Washington, D.C., according to the congressman’s office.
Scalise’s office said he was in “good spirits” and talked to his wife before entering surgery. Scalise is in stable condition, according to his office’s statement.
“We ask that you keep the Whip and others harmed in this incident in your thoughts and prayers,” Scalise’s office said.
Read the statement below:
Scalise Office statement pic.twitter.com/HsoijywAXy
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) June 14, 2017
Well this is all going to be a big mess driven totally by who the shooter is and his motives.
A statement from his office says that he is grateful for his healthcare paid for by American taxpayers, and hopes to return to Congress in time to help take health insurance away from 24 million of them.
It was a “middle-age, slightly chubby, white guy”…
Typically the middle-aged chubby white guys are shooting up Planned Parenthood offices, young black guys playing music too loud, or folks that look vaguely middle-eastern. In those cases they are dismissed as loners or kooks. (Edit - and taken alive) In this case the shooter will be a highly trained and motivated DNC operative with a Hillary Clinton tattoo and found carrying a copy of Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”. Where’s Alex Jones when you need him?