California lawmaker introduces resolution expelling Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress
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Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks during a news conference on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, in Dallas, Ga. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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LOS ANGELES (WTXL) â Congressman Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) announced Thursday he will be introducing a resolution to expel Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14) from the U.S. House of Representatives.
In a lengthy statement in his press release, Rep. Gomez called out Rep. Greene for her recent behavior and comments that have recently surfaced online. Her very presence in office represents a direct threat against the elected officials and staff who serve our government, said Rep. Gomez. And it is with their safety in mind, as well as the security of institutions and public servants across our country, that I call on my House colleagues to support my resolution to immediately remove Congresswoman M
Marjorie Taylor Greene traveled to her home district to meet with constituents as Washington leaders respond to her past Facebook activity that called for violence and embraced conspiracy theories surrounding school shootings.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., sits in the House chamber after lawmakers reconvened to certify Electoral College votes after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)
(CN) A TV news reporter was threatened with arrest Wednesday night after trying to ask a question at a town hall event put on by Marjorie Taylor Greene, as the congresswoman representing the northwest corner of Georgia faces growing criticism on Capitol Hill.
Gomez’s office said the congressman is introducing the resolution “in light of numerous reports revealing her repeated endorsements of sedition, domestic terrorism and political violence.”
Greene, who represents Georgia’s 14th congressional district, has had several social media posts surface in which she’s touted several conspiracies.
In his statement, Rep. Gomez says her endorsement of the conspiracies is a danger to others in Congress.
“As if it weren’t enough to amplify conspiracy theories that the September 11 attacks were an inside job, and the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was staged, a string of recent media reports has now confirmed that Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had previously supported social media posts calling for political violence against the Speaker of the House, members of Congress and former President
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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York late Wednesday offered a damning assessment of the state of the Republican Party in the wake of Donald Trump’s departure from the White House, warning that the GOP’s ongoing refusal to condemn and ready embrace of the violent right-wing forces that the former president animated is “extremely dangerous” for the country.
“There are no consequences in the Republican caucus for violence,” Ocasio-Cortez, a frequent target of deranged right-wing threats, said in an appearance on
MSNBCWednesday night. “No consequences for racism. No consequences for misogyny. No consequences for insurrection. And no consequences means that they condone it. It means that that silence is acceptance.”
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Caption Unlike companies like AT&T, Coca-Cola, Marriott, and GE, some of Greene’s largest donors are cheering on her continued false claims that former President Donald Trump won the November election. Credit: Mike Stewart/AP
For some Republicans propagating claims the presidential election was stolen, a corporate donation freeze might be a real threat to their future political fortunes.
Not so for the most vocal election denier in Georgia’s congressional delegation.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who during her first weeks in Congress has placed herself at the forefront of the objections to certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election and even filed articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden doesn’t have much in the way of corporate PAC money in her fundraising coffers to begin with, according to a