Rep. Greene Needs to Resign
We covered the remarks back in June of last year that CNN has recently re-discovered by going through Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Facebook page. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called out House GOP leaders for not doing more to rebuke Rep. Greene. Rep. Jimmy Gomez of California announced yesterday a resolution to expel her from Congress. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy stated through a spokesperson that he would have a conversation with her.
Reps. Austin Scott, Buddy Carter, Karen Handel, and Drew Ferguson endorsed her runoff opponent, Dr. John Cowan, in June due to her remarks. Rep. Handel was an outspoken critic of Rep. Greene since Greene announced her candidacy for Congress.
While numerous GAGOP elected officials and leaders called out Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for actually following the law and doing his job, there has been silence from current officials and leaders on Rep. Greene since CNN issued their recent report. Since they will not speak out, I will say that she needs to resign immediately from Congress. Her antics, including removing a reporter from her town hall, and words have demonstrated that she is not fit to hold the position of being a member of Congress.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
“Assigning her to the Education Committee when she has mocked the killing of little children at Sandy Hook Elementary School, when she has mocked the killing of teenagers in high school at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school — what could they be thinking? Or is thinking too generous a word for what they might be doing? It’s absolutely appalling, and I think the focus has to be on the Republican leadership of this House of Representatives for the disregard they have for the death of those children.”
Rep. Jimmy Gomez:
“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 Barack Obama.
Such advocacy for extremism and sedition not only demands her immediate expulsion from Congress, but it also merits strong and clear condemnation from all of her Republican colleagues, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Her very presence in office represents a direct threat against the elected officials and staff who serve our government, 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 Marjorie Taylor Greene from this legislative body.”
She breaks House rules.
— Rep. Jimmy Gomez (@RepJimmyGomez) January 28, 2021
She peddles lies and vile conspiracy theories.
She helped incite a domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol.@RepMTG’s presence in Congress is dangerous, plain and simple. And she must be expelled.
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Lawton is a graduate of Georgia Southern University (the GSU) with a degree in Information Technology. He has held numerous positions within the Georgia Republican Party throughout the years.
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Alright Lawton! Greene is a kook and harms the nation. I mean they kicked out Steve King, why not her?
McCarthy is going to Florida to talk to Trump. Maybe he is asking permission from Trump to kick her out?
Thanks for the post, Lawton. However, we both know the chances she resigns are roughly zero.
And why should she? She won her primary by 15 points and the general by 50. She’s a rising star in the party according to Trump. Her values and beliefs, maybe especially her conspiratorial ones, are aligned with goper officials and voters throughout Georgia.
She’s a tangled mess and an embarrassment but so’s Gohmert and Gaetz and Mo Brooks and they aren’t going anywhere either.
Beams of sunlight from orbiting solar panels, OK we are seriously in goo goo kland now:
Rep. Greene is a proponent of the Camp Fire laser beam conspiracy theory. She wrote a November 17, 2018, Facebook post — which is no longer available online — in which she said that she was speculating “because there are too many coincidences to ignore” regarding the fire, including that then-California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) wanted to build the high-speed rail project and “oddly there are all these people who have said they saw what looked like lasers or blue beams of light causing the fires.” She also speculated that a vice chairman at “Rothschild Inc, international investment banking firm” was somehow involved, and suggested the fire was caused by a beam from “space solar generators.”
Greene added: “If they are beaming the suns energy back to Earth, I’m sure they wouldn’t ever miss a transmitter receiving station right??!! I mean mistakes are never made when anything new is invented. What would that look like anyway? A laser beam or light beam coming down to Earth I guess. Could that cause a fire? Hmmm, I don’t know. I hope not! That wouldn’t look so good for PG&E, Rothschild Inc, Solaren or Jerry Brown who sure does seem fond of PG&E.”
https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/marjorie-taylor-greene-penned-conspiracy-theory-laser-beam-space-started-deadly-2018
What so many folks have missed is the message her election by a competent, involved and concerned citizenry sends. Congresswoman Greene represents a majority of her constituents; they were aware of her positions, her policies, and her deeply held beliefs. She was elected by the people of her district, and if removed from office, she will be elected again! The people of this district have as much right to elect her as the people of Atlanta had to elect Congressman Lewis, who by any account did nothing for his district, nothing to contain crime, poverty, or urban decay, and certainly nothing to improve the competency or efficacy of the Atlanta Public School System or the effectiveness of Atlanta’s Police in controlling or deterring street crime, domestic abuse, or the horror of child sexual exploitation. Further, Congressman Lewis failed to note or comment on widespread corruption of other local elected officials, and so far as i can determine, did absolutely nothing to provide meaningful employment for tens of thousands of young negro youths. and yet, he was elected over and over again.
There is deep schism opening in Georgia polity, one which if left unmentioned and ignored will lead to more tragic consequences than are imaginable. I had nothing but contempt for Congressman Lewis, I can imagine no one whose actions are further removed from the promises of the Civil Rights Era, and the hope of true visceral change that Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King championed.
That said, the citizens of the Fifth District repeated re-elected this demigod, as was their lawful right under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. So also have the people of the 14th District spoken. She is no more of an embarrassment to us than Congressman Lewis was to his constituents.
And what embarrassment, to each of you who would deny the will of a District’s people, is the incredible absence of jobs, opportunity and educational achievement for the negro denizens of Atlanta that you have perpetuated by your empty rhetoric in support of politics as usual, and your cowardly deferral of any meaningful action to reform Atlanta politics to reflect the economic and social needs of several million impoverished Atlantans of all races and creeds?
The streets are pot-holed, the sidewalks rutted and cracked, the houses are in disrepair and the the neighborhoods reflect the real reason for Black anger and despair, the fact that middleclass Whites and Blacks have sought to enrich themselves through the exploitation of labor and the limitation of employment. Too bad that John Lewis, and most of you white progressive don’t see that you are carrying water for Alinsky, Marcuse, Neumann, Krichheimer, Lenin, Marx and oh, Soros.
I did not vote for Congresswoman Greene, but your churlish disdain for her may well lead me and others to support her right to believe as she wishes. Her right of center pronouncements are frankly far less controversial and far more conventional to me than what I kindly refer to as y’all’s Fabian delusions. Kafka got your tongue?
“I did not vote for Congresswoman Greene, but your churlish disdain for her may well I did not vote for Congresswoman Greene, but your churlish disdain for her may well lead me and others to support her right to believe as she wishes.
Good thing our disdain may well lead you to support her right to believe as she wishes.
“…lead me and others to support her right to believe as she wishes”.
What a foolish statement.
There goes them darn progressives trying to take away MTG’s right to believe as she wishes.
Resentment and a truckload of false equivalence. Typical trollage. Bull is well-named.
“What so many folks have missed is the message her election by a competent, involved and concerned citizenry sends. Congresswoman Greene represents a majority of her constituents; they were aware of her positions, her policies, and her deeply held beliefs. ”
Those “competent, involved and concerned” constituents failure to turn out on January 5th was deemed a significant, possibly even the deciding factor in Georgia sending two Democrats to the US Senate.
They were so competent, involved and concerned, that when a lying, grifting, draft dodging, misogynistic, authoritarian wannabe told them the election was rigged, they decided to stay home on January 5th. Bless their competent hearts.
“The streets are pot-holed, the sidewalks rutted and cracked, the houses are in disrepair and the the neighborhoods reflect the real reason for Black anger and despair,”
Glad you know the “real reason”. Any links where I might read up on your other social psychology reports ? ’cause you’re deep.
Calling Bull S#!
I will only add that the level of ignorance and contempt is what is truly worthy of contempt.
And there lacks the most basic knowledge of how government works, or what Civil Rights means.
Accordingly, the only legitimate point you raise should be disavowed for its existence amidst the piles of your bull turds.
But the reality is yes she was elected, and yes, many still support her. I personally don’t see that as oh, the voters must be ignorant- that would be contemptuous in ways only you seem to cherish. No, I view her personally as not worthy of office because of her association with white supremacists, anti-Semites, and tons and tons of lies. She peddles lies and hate amidst her constituents, and that’s not the fault of constituents. To the contrary, constituents can be quick to forgive.
Many voters had their reasons, but some didn’t have reason, but emotion. No matter, the satiation of all of those reasons and emotions should be more effectively and sincerely represented, with truth, wisdom, and respect for all.
“Fabian delusions”?
I commend you for lending your voice and platform, Lawton.
Sadly, I think there is a pretty zero chance of her doing anything but continuing her own campaign of resistance against reality.
That’s why there should at least be 2 plans in place to change her electoral reality.
The first is as plead in the other post– find a credible, passionate, rational, local candidate and start building the campaign.
The second is redistricting. In theory , the district can be redrawn to include more moderate Republican areas, and level out the primary playing field, so to speak.
Regardless, for the full range of redress, Republicans retain the responsibility and powers, and I hope something definitive is done.
Don’t forget the Republicans kicked Steve King of Iowa out. They may do the same with Greene.
I guess Kemp would have to appoint someone. I don’t think it will be Doug Collins.
Kemp is going to have Marjorie as his running mate in 2022 if the GOP doesn’t get rid of her. Maybe after they were so mad at him for following the law last November, they are fine with that.