No more guns: Protesters escorted out of Paul Ryan fundraiser in Key Biscayne

[Julian Englis]

Source: Miami Herald

Two protesters chanting no more guns were removed from a Republican fundraiser in Key Biscayne Friday night after confronting Speaker of the House Paul Ryan about the mass shooting that happened days earlier and miles up the road.

This is @SpeakerRyans version of Thoughts and Prayers. Odd, it looks like a donor event in the tropics, an activist tweeted, along with a video of people milling about on an outdoor patio.

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Ryan tweeted that the Wednesday shooting, which left 17 people dead and 15 wounded, was pure evil.

Maria Thorne, a Key Biscayne activist, said she noticed motorcade traffic clogging up her commute home from her job as a fifth grade teacher at iPrep Academy, where she spent the day reassuring scared students that she could keep them safe from a shooter.


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Maria Thorne then goes to the fundraiser, and introduces herself to Ryan, who says, "Nice." She replies, "Nice. You're celebrating the deaths of 17 children."

God bless Maria Thorne!

Support @IronStache Randy Bryce
https://twitter.com/IronStache

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Blood on is hands.

[LonePirate]

2. This is tyop-notch, American activism at its finest! Bravo, Maria!

[Julian Englis]

3. Support @IronStache -- Randy Bryce

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[ffr]

4. What does democracy look like? This is what democracy looks like!

Dammit, I wish I was there.

[gordianot]

5. Thoughts and prayers are becoming toxic. Silence in general is far greater than momentary.

I for one am fed up with false gestures and alll the pricks who wear MAGA hats.

[global1]

6. Is "Pure Evil" The Talking Point Words That All Repugs Are Supposed To Use?....

Wasn't that the same thing that Rick Scott said the day of the shooting?

[strangedaysindeed]

7. Yup

and all the Kochroaches are scurrying from the light.

[DeminPennswoods]

9. Kochroaches

Excellent.

[malthaussen]

8. How like a politician...

... children have been massacred. I think I'll go ask for more money.

-- Mal

[George II]

10. Why is Ryan fundraising in Florida instead of Wisconsin?

[TimeToGo]

13. Wondering the same.

[Angry Dragon]

16. My thought also

[Leghorn21]

11. My irony meter is long defunct and my stupefication limit was reached months and months ago,

but holy mother of GOD, as Michael Bluth might say.

The fucking shameless nerve, omg, to go to Florida for a fundraising clambake

Meanwhile, rock steady Ms. Thorne, and thank you

[riversedge]

12. Sorry we crashed your donor party, @SpeakerRyan, but seriously.. A PARTY 48 hours after the #Parkl

PerSisters
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16h16 hours ago

Sorry we crashed your donor party, @SpeakerRyan, but seriously.. A PARTY 48 hours after the #Parkland massacre?

As the teacher you're talking to in this photo said before your security guys had her and the scary pediatrician lady tossed, "No More Guns!!"

#GunReformNow #Resist

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[George II]

14. And only 40 miles from the shootings.

[TNNurse]

15. WTF

Why is anyone in Florida giving him money? I think names and faces of anyone in Florida who felt like this was a time to party and raise money should be plastered all over the media. Heartless people should be exposed.

[dchill]

17. Edward Munster Bloodyhands.

[MarcA]

18. This is how you bring the war home n/t

[crazycatlady]

19. He should just go ask Wayne LaPierre instead

THe NRA will write him a fat check.

[mpcamb]

20. 'Pure Evil', Paul, is when you take NRA money and mouth platitudes.

[cvoogt]

21. "Evil" has no legal definition and this is not a theocracy.

He needs to be held to account.

[cvoogt]

22. Ryan "didn't want to talk politics"

Wow, what a copout. He's the speaker of the House... he doesn't get to avoid talking politics!