Taking responsibility | News, Sports, Jobs - The Mining Journal
To the Journal editor: The day after the U.S. Capitol was overrun by a mob intent on interrupting the certification of Joe Biden’s election, I spent the morning nauseated by what U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman-Watersmeet, had done while I was sleeping. Despite seeing the afternoon’s violence close-up, he doubled-down and objected to the electoral vote counts of both Arizona and Pennsylvania–an act that fellow Republican U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney described as “an exceptionally dangerous precedent, threatening to steal states’ explicit constitutional responsibility for choosing the president and b...