GOP'S STEVE SCALISE SLAMS "RADICAL" OCASIO-CORTEZ SUPPORTERS FOR MOCKING MASS SHOOTING HE SURVIVED
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ouisiana Representative Steve Scalise (R) halted a Twitter debate with Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez of New York after supporters of the democratic socialist trolled him with mocking references to a 2017 mass shooting in which he was wounded.
“Hi @AOC. Happy to continue this debate on the Floor of the People’s House, but it’s clearly not productive to engage here with some of your radical followers. #StayClassy,” wrote Scalise on Twitter, with screenshots of tweets directed at him.
“She’s got better aim that James Hodgkinson, that’s for sure,” wrote one troll, in reference to the gunman who shot and wounded Scalise and four others at a congressional practise baseball match in Virginia in June 2017.
“Snipe his a--,” wrote another Twitter user.
Previous to cutting short the conversation, Scalise and Ocasio-Cortez had been exchanging barbs about the New York lawmaker’s plans for a 70 percent tax on top earners to fund a “new green deal,” boosting federal investment in green energy.
Scalise was critically injured in the Jiune 2017 shooting, after Hodgkinson opened fire on lawmakers playing baseball in Alexandria, Virginia. He made a full recovery, and returned to Congress on September 28 2017.
Hodgkinson—a onetime campaign volunteer for Vermont's left-wing senator Bernie Sanders—was shot dead in an exchange of gunfire with police after the shooting.
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