{"id":1542051,"date":"2022-07-06T18:19:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T22:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1542051"},"modified":"2022-07-06T18:20:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T22:20:02","slug":"on-five-year-anniversary-of-shooting-leftists-again-threaten-congressional-baseball-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/on-five-year-anniversary-of-shooting-leftists-again-threaten-congressional-baseball-game\/","title":{"rendered":"On Five-Year Anniversary of Shooting, Leftists Again Threaten Congressional Baseball Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fon-five-year-anniversary-of-shooting-leftists-again-threaten-congressional-baseball-game%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1542051&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">&#8216;Failure will have serious consequences&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tPolice at the scene after the 2017 Congressional Baseball Game shooting \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/elizabeth-troutman\/\" title=\"Posts by Elizabeth Troutman\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Elizabeth Troutman<\/a> \u2022 July 6, 2022 6:10 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Left-wing activists are threatening to shut down the Congressional Baseball Game five years after a far-left gunman shot up the bipartisan event, almost killing House Republican Whip Steve Scalise.<\/p>\n<p>A climate activist group called <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/now____or_never\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Now or Never<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday unveiled a three-part plan that starts with shutting down the annual game to force action from Democratic leaders, who the group says are guilty of refusing &#8220;to act boldly&#8221; on issues like climate change, abortion, and voting rights &#8220;for fear it will be too \u2018polarizing.'&#8221; Now or Never&#8217;s parent organization, the Action Network, is located at <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/town-hall-project-founded-former-clinton-staffer\/\">the same address<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0a group funded by liberal multibillionaire George Soros.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On July 28th, we will converge en masse on the Congressional Baseball Game. If our politicians have failed to deliver, we will shut it down,&#8221; Now or Never&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nowornever.earth\/#plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> says. &#8220;We will not stand by, watching them play games while the world burns. Everything we love is at stake. Our safety, our future, our one and only home. It&#8217;s time to leave everything on the field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those threats come five years after James Hodgkinson, a former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/06\/14\/politics\/bernie-sanders-baseball-shooting\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">campaign volunteer<\/a> for socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders\u00a0(I., Vt.), showed up at Republicans&#8217; practice for the game and shot Scalise, a congressional staffer, a lobbyist, and two Capitol Police officers. All of the victims survived, though Scalise was seriously injured. Police officers shot and killed Hodgkinson in a gunfight.<\/p>\n<p>Now or Never&#8217;s threats do not stop with the baseball game.\u00a0If Congress does not enact &#8220;strong climate legislation&#8221; by Aug. 5, Now or Never will &#8220;see to it that Democratic senators hear from us when they fly home empty handed,&#8221; the website says.<\/p>\n<p>If the group still doesn&#8217;t get what it wants by Sept. 30, it will take &#8220;highly disruptive, mass direct action that fundamentally disrupts business as usual in D.C.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Failure will have serious consequences,&#8221; the group warned.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats &#8216;Failure will have serious consequences&#8217;  Police at the scene after the 2017 Congressional Baseball Game shooting \/ Getty Images  Elizabeth Troutman \u2022 July 6,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":835,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/835"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}