text: The victims of the Alexandria shooting have my prayers and sympathy. So does Rep. Tenney, who represents my district, as she deals with hostile and unacceptable communications.
  The people likely to be harmed by Rep. Tenney's preferred policies of refugee exclusion, environmental and financial deregulation, and the slashing of health care subsidies also have my prayers and sympathy. I have contacted Rep. Tenney regularly to express my concerns for those people. I intend to keep doing that, civilly as always. 
   I hope that at some point Rep. Tenney will practice civility to the point of not blaming all Democrats for the horrible actions of a small number of unbalanced people. Some folks have told me that they hope I will be raped and/or beheaded because they dislike my positive attitude toward immigrants and Muslims, but I don't think this means all Republicans are hateful and hostile. 
  May we all stop scapegoating and start treating each other like real people whose lives matter.