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Vanessa Fajans-Turner of Ithaca hopes to gain the democratic nomination in the new 22nd Congressional District. She enters the race in the newly-changed district as the 7th democrat hoping to be the nominee.
Specifically do not support marjorie greene or lauren boebert, and you know, even -- those are very red districts, you're going to end up with a republican. you can have a conservative republican woman without having a crazy, you know, very unpleasant, you know, nasty, you know, unconscionable-type person who, by the way, neither of these women are getting anything done in congress for their constituents. zippo, nothing. yet they attack people like liz cheney and john catco and jamie herrera butler, all of whom have passed dozens of bills that have improved the lives of their constituents as w...
Predetermine that he can't serve. that pelosi can pick and choose. jim jordan, is she afraid of a question from jim? is she afraid of what he might ask or fight for? he's a ranking member. not his first committee, but his second. why would she be afraid? did she set the committee itself to be one-sided? yes. more so than any select committee before, yeah, she did. we warned you from that moment in time, she was playing politics. today just showed the american people exactly what everybody was warned. it's the american people who lose in this. but we're not going to allow that to happen. we're ...
Mr. jordan is a ranking member and mr. banks also is a leader of a large caucus, mr. davis is also -- or representative davis is also a ranking member and speaker pelosi didn't object to him. and representative nells also voted to object, along with representative banks and representative jordan. why do you think there was a difference between her objecting to representative banks and jordan as opposed to representative davis and -- >> i don't know, but she has raskin who objected and asked for an impeachment, too. i don't know if the objections matter, because her members have objected before...
Mccarty did choose to stand by his members. he's absolutely correct about that. whatever you think of jim jordan, he has quite a bit of support there. he used to be associated with the far-right fringes of the house gop, but he is now the ranking member on the house judiciary committee. jim banks chairs a group called republican study committee, which is aiming to push the caucus in a more conservative direction. so mccarthy made a decision that he had to stand by them and looks like this committee will have to go forward with the eight appointees from speaker pelosi. that includes seven democ...