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REP REMOVAL THREAD: There is a lot of talk about removing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from the House and there is a vote tomorrow to strip her of her two committee assignments. I thought it might be useful to look at some other members of the House who deserve removal.
2/ Rep Alcee Hastings (FL-D) currently represents Florida's 20th District in Congress. Before being elected Hastings served as a federal judge for almost a decade before he was charged with taking a $430,000NPV bribe from a defendant in a case he was presiding over.
3/ In a near-unanimous 413–3 vote Hastings was impeached by the House for bribery and perjury. He was then tried by the Senate and convicted in a 69-26 vote. He was removed from the bench in 1989.
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20190523/alcee-hastings-trial-money-mob-and-fbi
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20190523/alcee-hastings-trial-money-mob-and-fbi
4/ Of course being convicted and removed for bribery is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Rep. Hastings. Hastings is ranked #1 out of 435 members of the U.S. House for paying salaries and fees to family members. https://www.judicialwatch.org/corruption-chronicles/alcee-hastings-ranks-no-1-in-nepotism/
5/ Rep Hastings was sued by one of his staffers, Winsome Packer, for sexual harassment in 2011. The staffer was eventually paid $220,000 from the US Treasury (Hastings wasn't required to pay her for the alleged abuse). https://www.rollcall.com/2017/12/08/exclusive-taxpayers-paid-220k-to-settle-case-involving-rep-alcee-hastings/
6/ Then there was that time that Rep. Hastings used his Congressional expense account to lease a Lexus hybrid sedan. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report that the Congressman used taxpayer money for the luxury car (at least it was a hybrid). https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124364352135868189
7/ I'm not exactly sure what crazy stuff Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene might have said before she was elected by the people of her district, but I'm pretty sure I would have heard if she had been taking bribes, been impeached, harassed women, or used taxpayer funds for luxury cars.
8/ Why is Rep Hastings allowed to remain in Congress much less serve on the Rules Committee and The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. The answer is simple, for some reason the good people of the 20th District of Florida want him to represent them.
9/ But what about Rep Ilhan Omar? House Republicans are proposing she be removed from their committee assignments instead of Rep Greene. https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/02/02/house-republicans-propose-removing-ilhan-omar-from-committees-instead-of-greene/?sh=5d0217eb1319
10/ In 2019 Rep Omar took aim at Israel making anti-Semitic remarks suggesting pro-Israel political organizations "push for allegiance to a foreign country." The House stopped short of censuring Omar but instead passed a resolution condemning her bigotry. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-resolution-would-condemn-anti-semitic-and-anti-muslim-bigotry/
11/ Rep Omar has been accused of using campaign contributions from out-of-state interest groups to line her own pockets after it was learned she paid her husband $2.8M to consult for her campaign. After the payments came to light she stopped paying him. https://www.the-sun.com/news/1779132/ilhan-omar-minnesota-reelection-campaign-husbands-firm-paid/
12/ It has long been suspected that Rep Omar committed immigration fraud to help her family get to America. According to reports she even married her own brother to facilitate her crimes. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8013283/Ilhan-Omar-DID-marry-brother-reveals-Somali-community-leader.html
13/ Rep Omar has been linked to ballot harvesting in her congressional district (video). https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1310596878644510725
14/ Rep Omar also famously suggested that during 9/11 "Some people did something." https://twitter.com/SwampDog4614/status/1304395496933515266
15/ Finally, Rep Omar has been banned from entering Israeli after a law was passed preventing her entry because she calls for a boycott of Israel and supports the BDS movement and terror organizations that target jews. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/world/middleeast/bds-israel-boycott.html
16/ Again, Why is Rep Omar allowed to remain in Congress much less serve on the Budget Committee, Education and Labor Committee, and Foreign Affairs Committee? Again, the answer is simple, for some reason the good people of the 5th District of MN want her to represent them.
17/ I know almost nothing about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene but I do know that the people of Georgia's 14th congressional district elected to her represent them and if they don't want her to continue they have the ability to recall her. It is none of my business.
