Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) invited former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Cameron Kasky, who survived the Valentine’s Day massacre at the school last year and helped arrange the March For Our Lives event in Washington, D.C. in 2018, to attend the State of the Union address next week as his guest.
“Too many families, friendships, and communities across our nation have been torn apart by gun violence. It’s time this epidemic be met with real action – not moments of silence and thoughts and prayers,” Swalwell said in a statement Friday. “The shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., happened while I was in congressional orientation in December 2012, and I figured Congress would have to act. As Republicans stymied all efforts since then, I started to grow frustrated – but the clear, loud, unwavering voices of the Parkland generation have inspired me to renew our efforts.”
Doofus is going to the Super Bowl and at which time he will give his SOTU speech .
I hate this - it’s the perfect example of Democrats not bringing a knife to a gunfight, but instead bringing a lace doily with a vaguely ostentatious frill along its edge.
Maybe in some cocktail party or White House Correspondents Dinner this would be considered some sly bit of political theater, but in a world where a Parkland survivor asked Marco Rubio to his face if he would stop taking money from the gun lobby, having the C-SPAN camera occasionally point to another survivor as he sits silently taking in Trump’s BS and expecting any Republican to give a shit is the limpest attempt at posturing imaginable.
I doubt he expects that. Trump will have victims there of violence caused by non-citizens. Kasky was victimized by a citizen who had a gun that civilians in general and kids in particular do not need and should not have. And I presume the voters are meant to get the message that Swalwell cares about that and wants to do something about it.
Wonder if anyone has Stormy Daniels on their guest list?
I wouldn’t mind if each congressperson invited someone who Trump or the administration has shafted. The mom who lost their health insurance. The contractors not paid. The women…Oh the women.