Father of alleged Israeli Embassy staffers shooter was invited by a Dem to Trump's joint address

The dad of the guy nabbed for allegedly popping off shots at two Israeli Embassy workers outside D.C.'s Capital Jewish Museum this week was rubbing elbows with the elite at President Trump’s big Congress speech back in March, invited by none other than a Democratic rep from Illinois.

"Eric Rodriguez was our guest during the President’s Joint Speech to Congress, but we don’t know his family," a flack for Rep. Jesús "Chuy" García, D-Ill., told Fox News Digital, trying to keep things tidy.
Eric Rodriguez, the old man in question, is an Iraq war vet and a union steward with the Service Employees International Union, clocking hours at a Chicago VA hospital, per the union’s website.

"Eric represents the very best of our community – someone who has served his country, continues to serve his fellow veterans and fights every day to protect the dignity of working people," García said back then, probably not expecting this mess.

On the day of Trump’s speech, Rodriguez was out there slamming the administration’s handling of veterans in a video SEIU tossed up online, making his feelings crystal clear.

Rodriguez and SEIU didn’t hit back when Fox News Digital came knocking for comment. No surprise there.

"The reason why I am in Washington, D.C., is because I’m concerned about what Donald Trump, Elon Musk and DOGE are doing to the VA system," Rodriguez said in that video, throwing shade. "They’re indiscriminately cutting people’s jobs, they’re cutting funding and people rely on these funds. People rely on these services."

Fast forward to Thursday, and Rodriguez’s kid, Elias, was hauled into federal court, staring down heavy charges, including two counts of first-degree murder. Cops say he gunned down Yaron Lischinsky, 28, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, as they stepped out of the Capital Jewish Museum.

Feds claim Elias rolled into D.C. from Chicago the day before, lugging a legal piece in his checked bag, then snagged a ticket to some American Jewish Committee shindig. An unsealed FBI affidavit paints a grim picture: surveillance allegedly catches Elias creeping up behind Lischinsky and Milgrim at a crosswalk, then letting loose.

As the two dropped, investigators say Elias kept blasting, paused to reload, and then went at it again, like something out of a bad movie.

When the cops closed in, Elias reportedly spilled, "I did it for Palestine. I did it for Gaza. I am unarmed." Bystander video’s got him screaming "Free Palestine" as they cuffed him.

If the feds make it stick, Elias is looking at the death penalty or, at minimum, 30 years in the slammer.
"I strongly condemn this horrible, senseless act of antisemitism," García posted on X, trying to get ahead of the storm. "My heart is with the victims and everyone impacted by the attack. We mourn the lives lost and reject the idea that justice can be won through violence."

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LA teachers may strike this week, demand equity pay

Los Angeles is supposed to be the City of Angels, but it seems more like it's the city of communists, at least as far as the teachers are concerned. The nation's second-largest school system is threatening a 3-day strike this coming week starting on Tuesday, March 21 through Thursday, March 23.

Members of SEIU Local 99, aka Education Workers United, an obvious oxymoron, voted to approve a strike with support from the district's Democrat teacher's union, United Teachers Los Angeles, which represents 35,000 so-called educators. They vow to honor the strike and will not cross the picket lines.

Workers in the thousands, from lunch workers to school bus drivers working in the  Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) are demanding more money, more full-time work, respect, more staffing levels for better student services, and bonuses for being forced to come into the schools now that Covid isn't what it was cracked up to be. 

They say the school district has engaged in "unfair practices" and that there hasn't been much progress since the negotiations started in April of last year, possibly due to the fact that meetings tend to be a situation where the minutes are kept and hours are wasted.

 In December, SEIU Local 99 announced talks had reached an impasse and a state mediator was appointed to oversee communications between the two parties.

The strike was authorized by 96% of LAUSD school workers represented by SEIU Local 99 in February. The 4% who opposed the strike have not been seen nor heard from since Valentine's Day.

During a Wednesday news conference, district Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said that the strike will make it "virtually impossible to keep schools open." 

So too bad kids. You won't learn about the 57 genders and how to choose your pronouns.

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