Wife: Man Who Shot Congressman Wanted to Work on Tax Policy

KNTV-TV ^ | June 16, 2017 | The Associated Press

[2ndDivisionVet]

The wife of a gunman who shot and wounded a top Republican congressman and several others says her husband went to Washington, D.C. because he wanted to work on tax policy.

Sue Hodgkinson spoke to reporters Thursday outside her Illinois home. She says she didn't know a lot about what her husband, 66-year-old James Hodgkinson, did between January and March because she was busy with her job at a tax firm. But he sold items from his businesses and told her he was going to Washington. She learned about the shootings while at work Wednesday during a telephone call from a television reporter.....

[Celerity]

Oh my GOD listening to that leftist shill go on and on about more tax brackets.

I’m glad he’s gone. I just wished it would have been caused by a flight of stairs instead of shooting up a ballfield.

You know, being a terrorist.

[Ken522]

... real close-knit couple there ....

[wtd]

FWIW...Related to Scalise -

DR JACK SAVA TREATING IS SCALISE IN MEDSTAR HOSPITAL

• https://twitter.com/Pamela_Moore13/status/875811976114429952

  Dr. Jack Sava: “The congressman’s status remains critical. We are encouraged by improvement in his condition over the last 36 hours.”

[noiseman]

Some statements are so incomprehensibly stupid they just leave you speechless. I have no idea what to say to this.

[grobdriver]

a telephone call from a television reporter.....

"Your husband just shot a bunch of people and he's dead. Can we get a comment on that?"

[madison10]

Hannity said today that Steve Scalise was very close to death when they brought him in.

[Godebert]

She is a bold faced liar! You know this Hodgekinson douchebag vented his violent rhetoric to her probably every day. If anyone knew he went to D.C. with the purpose to kill.... it was her.

[wgmalabama]

I want to work on foreign policy so who do I shoot? Democrazies.

[ColdOne]

Something is off with her too.

[Red Badger]

Hey, honey! I’m selling my stuff from my business and going to Washington DC to live in my van work on Tax Policy! And I’m taking my guns with me! ....See ya!.................

Doesn’t that happen all the time?...............

[Red Badger]

She’s is a liberal’s dream.

Clueless..........................

[hal ogen]

This woman is a liar and major putz. Waterboard her to find what she “knew”.

[hoosiermama]

Did he take part in any of the demonstrations in DC? Was he paid to do so?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Yeah, he wanted to work on tax policy. I was coincidentally doing neutron-fusion research for my Nobel Prize at the time and could not pay attention to Hodgkinson’s intention to to tax the rich at a 95% rate.

[noiseman]

Yep, impossible she could have been clueless about his radical leftism, especially considering how he seems to have ranted about it every opportunity he was given. Then she tells this absurd story that sounds like a little kid running off to join the circus. He was going to Washington to work on tax policy, so he sells a bunch of his stuff and is gone for months, and she acts like he's running down to the grocery store? "Oh, you're running off to Washington to work on tax policy, whatever that means, and you will be gone for an indeterminate number of months?....OK, have a good time, and don't forget to write once in a while!"

Leftists/libs/progressives are truly, truly nuts.

[MPJackal]

She misunderstood. He did not say “tax plan”. He said he had an “Attack Plan”. A simple mistake. Could happen to anyone.

[DIRTYSECRET]

I want to work on the Middle East. Does that mean I should pack heat in D.C?

[EDINVA]

“Your husband just shot a bunch of people and he’s dead. Can we get a comment on that?”

Were his life insurance premiums paid up to date?

[bgill]

SeeBS’s #1 Trump hatter, Scott Pelley, couldn’t bring himself to say he was a demoncrat so claimed he was just some random homeless guy the other night on the evening news.