RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: JARED LOUGHNER: 22 YEAR OLD SHOOTER UNDER ARREST FOR REP. GIFFORDS ATTACK. SHE IS OUT OF SURGERY. IN CRITICAL CONDITION.

Saturday, January 08, 2011

JARED LOUGHNER: 22 YEAR OLD SHOOTER UNDER ARREST FOR REP. GIFFORDS ATTACK. SHE IS OUT OF SURGERY. IN CRITICAL CONDITION.

Image via WikipediaBy Randy Economy
www.Economy4ABC.Blogspot.com
January 8, 2010
1:17 p.m. PST

Tuscon, AZ:

Media reports out of Arizona have confirmed that Jared Loughner, 22 years old, is the person reportedly being held under suspicion of shooting Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and as many as 17 others.

Six more died at the scene.

Giffords was shot once in the head, and she is not out of surgery. She is in "critical" condition.

Some of the eyewitnesses said that Laughner looked like a "fringe character." I am not sure "what a fringe character" looks like, and I hope this doesn't turn into a political circus.

Laughner apparently shot Giffords and 15 others at a public event at a Safeway grocery store in Tucscon. He reportedly shot the congresswoman "point blank" in the head and may have come from inside the store.

He allegedly fired 20-30 rounds and hit "a number of people," including a 9 year old child, who died at a nearby hospital. One of Giffords' staff members tackled the shooter after he apparently ran out of ammunition. Eyewitnesses have described Laughner as "young, mid-to-late 20s, white, clean-shaven with short hair and wearing dark clothing." He was arrested upon arrival of the sheriff's department.

U.S. Capitol Police urged all members of Congress and staff to take "reasonable and prudent precautions regarding their personal security."

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You may know me from my role as the Senior Advisor and Official Media Spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign that established a worldwide blitz of interviews. I conducted more than 2,200 media interviews on behalf of “The People’s Recall” during a 10-month period from November 2020 to September 2021. The iconic magazine Mother Jones in a dramatic feature article called me “A ‘Superhero Pirate’ Radio Host, (and) Gavin Newsom’s Strangest—and Most Dangerous—Threat. Meet Randy Economy, the man behind the effort to recall California’s governor.” I appeared on more than 330 media outlets around the world in my capacity with RecallGavin2020. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, NBC Nightly News, ABC News, as well as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, and dozens of other media outlets aired featured reports on my work on behalf of “The People’s Recall.” I am and will always consider myself to be a journalist. Sometimes I think I bleed ink. My talents as an Investigative Journalists in California earned me FIVE top awards from the prestigious Los Angeles Press Club in 2013, 2014, and 2016. I am tenacious. My reporting over the years has led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California. While working for a tiny community newspaper in Southeast Los Angeles County, I worked doggedly to expose the biggest public corruption case in Los Angeles County history when I unearthed a massive pay to play scheme inside the Assessor’s Office that led to the arrest of then Assessor John R. Noguez and four others. However, politics has been in my DNA since I was a child. I have worked on more than 300 political campaigns as a consultant and advisor since 1982 for candidates from all sides of the political spectrum including Democrats and Republicans, and even Libertarians. I am also a small business owner, serving as the President and CEO of Hot Water Studio & Production, LLC. My company works with media outlets across the state, nation, and world exposing public corruption via several new media platforms. I have also overcome personal challenges. I am legally blind with zero vision in my right eye and only 40 percent vision remaining in my left eye. I sometimes wear an eyepatch due to my failed vision. (Hence the nickname of “America’s Political Pirate.”

Saturday, January 08, 2011

JARED LOUGHNER: 22 YEAR OLD SHOOTER UNDER ARREST FOR REP. GIFFORDS ATTACK. SHE IS OUT OF SURGERY. IN CRITICAL CONDITION.

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