Targeting Kelly is one of those "this is why we'll win" moments

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4. I met with both Mark and Gabby

at a "congress on your corner event" months before she was shot and so many people around her were killed.

The then MAGAts were bused in ( literal greyhound buses arrives dumping out TEA party people, some armed, into the Safeway where the meeting was held). Because the line was long to meet the congresswoman, they provided a line of chairs... and we all had to get up a move to the next chair in the line every time she finished hearing from the next person at the front. I mention this because during one of these "musical chair" movements the guy next to me stood up and a handgun fell out of his pants pocket and hit the floor of the Safeway store. Fortunately it did not go off... but seriously. front pocket? I was worried for them then...

Next week someone threw rocks or bricks through the congress woman's Tucson office window.

This is to say, the violence has almost entirely come from the right. It is still coming from the right. It was coming long before Trump rode the escalator down to start the anti-immigrant bullshit.

Also, in that same line... while the TEA party assholes had signs even then saying "deport all Mexicans" ( this even was in Douglas AZ, literally a stones throw from the border )... I had a Mexican American farmer sitting to the other side of me from the gun nut. He told me "my family has been ranching here for 5 generations... we didn't choose to be either Mexican or American... they kept moving the border on US."

Anyway I sent some money to Mark yesterday for whatever legal defense costs he may face from Trump's DOJ.