US Senator Expelled For Saying He Was Glad Steve Scalise Was Shot

A member of the Nebraska Democratic
Party has been kicked out after an audio
recording of him surfaced on YouTube
saying he was "glad" House Majority Whip,
Steve Scalise was shot at a congressional
baseball game practice and wished the
Louisiana Republican was dead.





In the leaked audio recording, Phil Montag
blamed Scalise for seeking to take away
people's health care coverage through the
Republican bill, to repeal and replace the
Affordable Care Act.




"This motherf***er, like, his whole
job is like to get people to convince
Republicans to f***ing kick people
off f***ing health care," Montag was
heard saying in the recording in
reference to Scalise.




When he made the remarks, Montag was
speaking to Chelsey Gentry-Tipton, the
chairwoman of the state Democratic Party's
Black Caucus, and her friend, Destin
Madison.



It's unclear how the conversation
began, but the recording on YouTube starts
with Madison asking:

"So what is it you want to do?"
Gentry-Tipton responds to Montag's
complaints by saying: "We know all of this."



Scalise, a member of the Republican
baseball team, was hospitalized after a
gunman opened fire while Republican
members of Congress were practicing
earlier this month in Alexandria, Virginia,
ahead of the annual charity baseball game.



He went through multiple surgeries after
the shooting and is still hospitalized.




Fortunately, he has been released from
intensive care Thursday.