{"id":7766,"date":"2018-02-19T16:49:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T22:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=7766"},"modified":"2018-08-20T16:09:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T21:09:24","slug":"paul-ryan-fundraiser-florida-school-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/paul-ryan-fundraiser-florida-school-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Ryan prioritized in South Florida this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a busy weekend, what with the fallout of the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida that killed 17 people. Unsurprisingly, the president has already managed to make it about himself<\/a>, so now\u2019s as good a time as any to check in on one of the perceived grownups in his sphere: the Speaker of the House.<\/p>\n

My Man Paul Ryan attended a National Republican Congressional Committee fundraiser on Friday night. He is very good at racking up campaign donations. For example, the Janesville native took in $171,977 from gun rights groups<\/a> like the NRA in 2016. So a campaign fundraiser is pretty much his \u201cFree Bird.\u201d<\/p>\n

This latest event was in Key Biscayne, Florida, where My Man Paul met a local teacher named Maria Thorne. She decided to pop in after her commute home from reassuring her students<\/a> that she could protect them from a shooter, which is something you have to do with fifth graders these days.<\/p>\n

Being the concerned American that she is, Thorne marched right up to My Man Paul, shook his hand and told him that she was a teacher.<\/p>\n

My Man Paul\u2019s response? \u201cNice.\u201d<\/p>\n

This, understandably, did not sit well with Thorne. \u201cNice? You\u2019re here celebrating the death of 17 children.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, in My Man Paul\u2019s defense, Thorne is actually incorrect here. The shooting didn\u2019t claim the lives of 17 children because some of them were adults, too<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The rest of the exchange played out as could be expected. My Man Paul told Thorne he \u201cdidn\u2019t want to talk politics\u201d while literally standing in the middle of a political event, seemingly the perfect place to talk politics.<\/p>\n

Thorne and her companion then started a \u201cno more guns\u201d chant before being led out by security, perhaps because My Man Paul received more money<\/a> from gun rights groups between 1990 and 2017 than any other House member. This is especially impressive considering he has only been in office since 1999. #winning!<\/p>\n

Luckily for My Man Paul, the rest of the Republicans\u2019 winter meeting at the Ritz-Carlton in Key Biscayne, which is about 50 miles from Parkland, went off without a hitch after such a pesky disruption:<\/p>\n

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This is @SpeakerRyan<\/a>‘s version of Thoughts and Prayers. Odd, it looks like a donor event in the tropics. #Parkland<\/a> #GunReformNow<\/a> #Resist<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/JTQtRiNMMl<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 PerSisters (@PERSlSTERS) February 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n