- A Democratic congresswoman moves offices to get away from rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
- Rep. Cori Bush tweeted on Friday that Greene and her staff “advised” her in a hallway.
- Greene’s embrace of dangerous conspiracy theories ranked her colleagues.
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Rep. Cori Bush announced on Friday that she was going to change offices after a maskless representative Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘robbed’ her and her staff in a corridor.
Bush, a Missouri first-year Democrat, said in a tweet that she had decided to move offices for the safety of her and her staff. Both Greene’s and Bush’s offices are located on the ground floor of the Longworth House office building, according to congresswomen’s websites.
Greene, a newly elected Republican from Georgia, arranged for colleagues on both sides of the aisle by caring for dangerous conspiracies associated with the QAnon movement and refusing to wear a mask on the hill.
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Bush added that Congress should pass a resolution she tabled following the January 6 uprising over the U.S. Capitol to investigate members like Greene who ousted former President Donald Trump’s conspiracies that the 2020 election was stolen and possible to expel.
—Cori Bush (@CoriBush) 29 January 2021
Also on Friday, Punchbowl News reported that House President Nancy Pelosi “directly intervened” in the case of moving Bush to a new office after being made aware of the quarrel, an unprecedented action less than a month in the 117th Congress.
Co-progressive Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted in support of Bush and complained to House minority leader Kevin McCarthy that he had ‘lost control of his caucus’ and that threats could be ‘ignored’.
Representatives of Greene and Bush did not immediately return Insider’s requests for comment.
In a tweet from Jan. 18, Greene Bush, a racist activist, accused him of leading the group of protesters who marched during a nationwide rally in the summer of 2020 for a police reform in a luxury part of St. Louis. attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who came out of their home with guns to the protesters.
—Marjorie Taylor Greene @ (@mtgreenee) 18 January 2021
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., Wears a “Trump Won” face mask as she arrives on the floor of the House to take her oath of office on the opening day of the 117th Congress in the US Capitol in Washington, Sunday, January 3rd 2021
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Greene won a primary result in August in the open race for the deep-seated Republican 14th Congress district in northwest Georgia and easily sailed to win the general election, despite concerns from some Republicans about her hefty history of racism, Islamophobia and conspiracy theories connected. with the wide QAnon motion.
New report from the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters has revealed that Greene, in support of false conspiracy theories, posted that the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School and the February 2018 shooting in Parkland, Florida, by the government or ‘false flags’ ‘was offered. ”
Refreshed video footage showed how Greene David Hogg, Parkland student and gun control activist David Parker, complained and harassed as he walked to the Capitol to meet with lawmakers in March 2019.
CNN also recently reported on Facebook activities where Greene responded to and posted of posts saying that FBI agents and top Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Pelosi, should be executed.
And recently, Media Matters unveiled a long 2018 Facebook post in which Greene called on an anti-Semitic troop to indicate that the deadly campfire in California was caused by a laser from space possibly connected to Rotschchild Inc.
While McCarthy said he would have a “conversation” with Greene about the distribution of posts on social media, she has not yet faced any form of official punishment from her caucus, such as being denied instructions from the committee. .
Pelosi and other Democrats have sued the top Republicans for appointing Greene to the House Committee on Education and Labor for using the conspiracy theories surrounding school shootings and her active harassing proponents of student arms reform.
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