First-year Democratic Congresswoman Cori Bush is moving her office to distance herself from GOP Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, she tweeted Friday. Bush said her colleague “threatened” and “complained” about her and her staff.
Many House Democrats have condemned Greene widely because she has promoted a number of conspiracy theories and agrees with statements that the Democrats should be executed. A House Democrat says he plans to introduce a motion to suspend her from the chamber as early as next week.
Bush initially tweeted that she was moving her office on Friday because of Greene’s behavior. In a later statement, Bush described an incident on Jan. 13 in the tunnel between the Cannon House office building and the Capitol when she said Greene ‘came up from behind me, buzzing loudly in her phone while not wearing a mask. not. The previous day, several Democrats announced that they had tested positive for COVID-19 after being overseen by Republican members who refused to wear masks during the Jan. 6 attack.
“Out of concern for the health of my staff, other members of Congress and their congress staff, I repeatedly called on her to put on a mask. Taylor Greene and her staff responded by repenting, with one staff member shouting: “Stop incitement to violence with Black Lives Matter,” Bush continued, and Greene also “dropped” on Twitter from Martin Luther King Jr. on Bush against Twitter, falsely accusing me of leading a crowd that “the rape, murder and arson of the house” of the McCloskey family. in St. Louis – thus naming me as a target for her hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers. “
“All of this led to my decision to move my office away from Taylor Greene for the safety of my team. My office is currently being relocated from the Longworth House office building,” Bush said. A Nancy Pelosi, an assistant from the house, confirmed to CBS News that the change of command by the speaker took place at the direct request of Bush.
Bush tweeted later that she did not move her office “out of fear”.
‘I moved my office because I’m here for a job for the residents of St. Louis. Louis to do, ‘she wrote. “What I can not do is keep looking over my shoulder and wondering if a white babysitter in Congress is rallying against me and my team.”
Greene posted a video on Twitter Friday afternoon Bush’s claim challenged. The video shows Greene walking through the tunnels under the Capitol when someone, allegedly Bush, yells at her to follow the rules and wear a mask. In the tweet, Greene says that Bush is the ‘leader of the terrorist mob of St. Louis Black Lives Matter ‘is what’ lied to you ‘and’ complained to me ‘.
Since being sworn in earlier this month, Greene has received backlash from her colleagues in Congress. California Democrat Jimmy Gomez is expected to propose his resolution to expel Greene from the House of Representatives next Tuesday.
In a statement Wednesday night announcing his plan, Gomez mentioned Green’s strengthening of conspiracy theories surrounding the September 11 terrorist attacks and the Marjory Stoneman High School mass shooting, as well as her past support for social media posts. which on violence against Pelosi and other Democratic politicians. The parents of some students who were killed during the shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, said Gomez’s call for Greene’s resignation. CNN on Thursday reported a 2019 video in which Greene harassed teenager David Hogg, a survivor of the shooting.
Connecticut Democrat Jahana Hayes – representing the district where Newtown, the site of another shooting, is located – sent a letter to the Republican leadership of the House and the top Republican on the Home Education and Labor Committee, North Carolina representative Virginia Foxx, to deprive Greene of her new assignment to the committee.
Media Matters for America reported on Thursday that Greene wrote a Facebook message in 2018 with the anti-Semitic allegation that a laser from space controlled by an ominous group started wildfires in California.
However, a Greene spokeswoman told CBS News that she will not resign.
“They come after me because I am a threat to their cause of socialism. They come after me because they know I represent the people, not the politicians. They come after me because I will be conservative like President Trump “always defend. They want to take me out because I represent the people. And they absolutely hate it,” Greene said in a statement.