Posted on 06/24/2017 6:22:53 PM PDT by Hadean
A Nebraska Democratic Party official was removed from his post on Thursday after an audio recording surfaced of him saying he's “glad” House Majority Whip Steve Scalise got shot last week.
Phil Montag, now-former co-chair of the state party’s technology committee, was recorded saying he wishes Scalise, R-La., were “dead.”
“His whole job is to get people, convince Republicans to [expletive] kick people off [expletive] health care. I’m glad he got shot,” Montag said in the audio recording. “I wish he was [expletive] dead.”
The audio was posted on YouTube. Nebraska Democratic Chairwoman Jane Kleeb confirmed to FOX 42 that the voice on the audio recording was, in fact, Montag’s.
“We obviously condemn any kind of violence whether it’s comments on Facebook or comments in a meeting,” Kleeb said. “Our country is better than the political rhetoric that is out there from both the far right and the far left.”
Montag, in an interview with the Omaha World-Herald, said his words were taken out of context and he was "horrified" by the shooting.
“I did not call for the congressman’s death,” Montag reportedly said.
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Only fired because the audio became public....
Truth. We all want each other dead. Everything else is just silly pre fight postering.
I’d settle for assets all seized and lifetime exile.
Nah. We say, RIP, Flounder.
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