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I lived down the street from the baseball field where @SteveScalise was shot in an attempted assasination https://twitter.com/andrewfeinberg/status/1337153112675651584
It was the first playground that my daughter lived and where she took her first swim lessons. They rebuilt a lot after that shooting, in part bc bullets had gotten through the building and into the pool area.
One morning going to work out at the Y I swear I saw the shooter, camped at a table in the front. He had so much stuff with him and seemed so comfortable I thought he was staff.
I share this because that changed me in a small way. A place I knew and my toddler daughter had loved—her first real swings—had become the place of attempted political assasination.
I cannot imagine being @SteveScalise and the others who barely survived that.
But I also cannot fathom living through that—an attempt at thwarting democracy through bloodshed—by then signing on to a brief supporting this wild claim that other states election results should be overturned.
How is this worth it @SteveScalise
The man that tried to kill you and the other Republicans on that field didn’t believe in democracy, so he took matters into his own hands.
Faith in elections is what keeps this country alive @SteveScalise. You know better than perhaps any member of Congress what can happen if that faith is torn for someone who is not stable.
Where are you @MeganBelMiller and what do you think? Did your children learn what swings are at the playground where your boss was almost assasinated at?
Because mine did. And this country does not need more killing inspired by political hatred.
What do you think @ctrokes?
Austin Walton I know you, do you remember me?
I beg you @SteveScalise @MeganBelMiller @ctrokes and Austin Walton and Jaqueline Battaglia and Brian Garand the rest of the Scalise staff: You know the horror that is attempted political assassination. No amount of power is worth inciting more if it.
And @bretthhorton and Ellen Gosnell and @CameronHenryLA
Whatever you think now I promise you: It isn’t worth it. If you didn’t live down the street from that baseball field, please, message me and I can tell you what it was like that day.
If you were with your boss then, I cannot understand working for him as he signs on to fictional amicus briefs that only serve to further undermine our democracy at the risk of activating more people like the one who nearly killed your boss, whether from the left or right
@MeganBelMiller you were tweeting about a woman stealing mail. I@get that. Please don’t let political calculations lead you and @SteveScalise into thinking this brief is worth it
This is the equivalent of stealing political mail. As the thief you know this won’t really harm the wealthy person living in a Capitol Hill townhome, it’ll be an inconvenience.
Similarly you could think, @MeganBelMiller, what’s the harm in letting my boss sign on to this batshit amicus brief?
The thing is, you all have lived that harm in the most frightening way possible. Do not continue it. Please do not do that
My fellow mega(h)an @MeganBelMiller I won’t stop until this is resolved. I can’t ignore your boss nearly being killed next to the first playground my daughter really played at by a political assassin just to promote more political violence
If you think this won’t lead to political violence—if you really think Trump won and this lawsuit is worth it and that’s what you’ve told Parker and Caroline then fine.
But @MeganBelMiller and @SteveScalise I’ve had to explain to my daughter what happened at that field at the Y. Political violence is real, as you know better than perhaps any other member serving. It’s real and it will get realer and more violent if you continue on this path.
Please do not do this @SteveScalise @MeganBelMiller !!!!
