- Democratic Rep. Cori Bush moves offices to get away from rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
- Bush said she’s not moving offices because she’s scared, but because she has a job to do.
- Bush said she and her staff do not have to worry about going to work because Greene wants to harm them.
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Hours after Democratic Rep. Cori Bush, from Missouri, said she was going to change office because rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene repented in a hallway, the first-year legislator told Joy Reid of MSNBC that she did not move out of fear, but because she had a job to do.
‘What I can not do is continue to look over my shoulder and wonder if a white supremacist in Congress named Marjorie Taylor Greene, or anyone else, because there are others … who conspiracy against us, ‘Bush said.
She told her focus should be on St. Louis be and the people she represents. Bush also stressed that staff members deserve to feel safe at work.
“They do not have to come to work and wonder if the door is going to open … and that’s someone who does not want to do it well,” Bush said.
Bush told Reid that she had never had a work environment like her current one, even though she had previously worked in fast food, child care and health care.
Greene responded to Bush’s TV appearance on Friday night and retweeted The ReidOut, saying “Same @CoriBush” referring to Bush’s comments about her current workplace.
“You have to stop screaming and attacking people,” Greene wrote. “No surprise you joined @JoyAnnReid, she’s lying too!”
Greene has come under fire over the past few days for posts on social media showing how he supports conspiracy theories about shootings and the execution of democratic leaders. Greene later deleted the posts.
Friday Afternoon, Greene tweeted a statement called “A Message to the People’s Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene.” In it, she blames the ‘left-wing democratic mob’ and the ‘Fake News media’ for trying to discredit her.
“Every attack. Every lie. Every smear strengthens my support base at home and across the country because people know the truth and are fed up with the lies,” she wrote.
In a statement to Insider, Bush described the incident on January 13. She said she walked to the house floor to vote, and Greene “came back” while staggering loudly into her phone without wearing a mask.
Bush apparently asked Greene to put on a mask and Greene responded by “advising” her. Bush said a member of Greene’s staff told her to stop ‘inciting violence with Black Lives Matter’.
Bush was a proponent of racial justice and police accountability before being elected to Congress.
Greene responded to Bush’s move by calling her a liar and tweet a video of the meeting and said she “had the receipts.” The video shows how Greene lives directly with her mask pulled off. Someone yells and asks Greene to wear a mask and Greene responds “do not yell at people” and “stop being a hypocrite.” A Greene associate can be heard telling Bush to stop inciting violence.
Bush addressed the video on ‘The ReidOut’, saying it’s just further proof that her report is true.
“That’s not what it’s for her to make a problem with Black Lives Matter,” Bush said. “You need to care enough for your colleagues, and if you do not believe … that this is a real health crisis … if you will not respect it … then leave this job. It is not for you . “
“She can say what she wants to say, but the fact is that she did not have a mask in the tunnel, and I absolutely expressed myself.”
Bush said the issue is not just about Greene, but also for any congressman who will not wear a mask.
“Follow the rules so we can do our job,” she said.