Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) got into a heated exchange with the New York House member on the steps of the US Capital Building….
The conversation was brief….
As Yoho was leaving he cursed his fellow lawmaker outlaid enough that a reporter there heard him….
Things HAVE come to this….
Tensions flared on Capitol Hill this week when a Republican lawmaker challenged Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on issues of crime and policing in an unusual — and decidedly personal — confrontation on the Capitol steps.
Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) was coming down the steps on the east side of the Capitol on Monday, having just voted, when he approached Ocasio-Cortez, who was ascending into the building to cast a vote of her own.
In a brief but heated exchange, which was overheard by a reporter, Yoho told Ocasio-Cortez she was “disgusting” for recently suggesting that poverty and unemployment are driving a spike in crime in New York City during the coronavirus pandemic.
“You are out of your freaking mind,” Yoho told her.
Ocasio-Cortez shot back, telling Yoho he was being “rude.”
The two then parted ways. Ocasio-Cortez headed into the building, while Yoho, joined by Rep. Roger Williams (R-Texas), began descending toward the House office buildings. A few steps down, Yoho offered a parting thought to no one in particular.
“Fucking bitch,” he said.
Ocasio-Cortez, a liberal firebrand and social media sensation, is no stranger to attacks from the right. But shortly after the exchange, she said it was the first time since she arrived in Congress that another lawmaker has challenged her so aggressively.
“That kind of confrontation hasn’t ever happened to me — ever,” she said. “I’ve never had that kind of abrupt, disgusting kind of disrespect levied at me.”
Approached a few hours later, Yoho declined to discuss any aspect of the exchange. “No comment,” he said….
image…The Hill
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Update…
Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) apologized to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on the House floor on Wednesday morning following a heated confrontation on issues of crime and policing on the Capitol steps Monday.
The Florida Republican apologized for his tone during the encounter with the firebrand first-term progressive, in which a reporter with The Hill overheard him call her “disgusting” and “out of your freaking mind” for her suggestion that poverty and unemployment are leading to an increase in crime in New York City amid the coronavirus pandemic. As he was walking away, he also referred to her with a crude, sexist slur.
Yoho denied directing the use of profanity at his colleague….
The Hill…
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Not so fast?…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday refused to accept an apology from Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) delivered just hours earlier, framing it as an insincere gesture following a tense exchange between the pair on the steps of the Capitol two days earlier.
“I will not teach my nieces and young people watching that this an apology, and what they should learn to accept,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.
“Yoho is refusing responsibility.”…
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I appears old fat Ted, that ladies man, has been kicked off his the board of his Christian charity. Apparently they don’t think calling someone a “fucking bitch” is very fucking Christian.
Ted Yoho Removed from Board of Christian Charity
“A Christian nonprofit organization that fights world hunger asked Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) to resign from its board after he confronted a female colleague and then reportedly used a sexist expletive after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was out of earshot,” the Washington Post reports.
But his “passion”
Good for AOC.
The time is long overdue that some mealy mouthed “apology” from these Right Wing creeps like this Yoho should be rejected.
The hate filled bastard talks about his “passion?”
We know his “passion”…..
Hate and lots of it!
Yoho learned he ain’t Trump….
who CAN get away with shit others can’t…
I don’t doubt Yoho is a jerk. There have been a lot of House members who have been jerks in both parties.
Had he said what he did verbally to a male colleague (and apparently he didn’t say the very nasty thing about AOC until she was out of earshot), would this get this much attention?
Now, the concept of men acting as gentlemen and showing more deference to women is a conservative one and I think a fairly good one, but it’s not exactly “woke.”
Maybe AOC should do the feminist thing and just shrug it off.
Ah but then there’s his uh “passion.”
In the grand tradition of Bob Dornan, Jim Moran, Alan Grayson, etc.
There hasn’t been a fist fight or a shoving match on the House floor or in the hallway in years now. It used to happen a lot.
Now, the Zoom or conference call spat in Chicago from last between Mayor Lori Lightfoot and a male Alderman was far more entertaining.
But i remember in the Russian and few asian countries they DUD have fighting right in the lawmakers chambers….
AOC’s answer–that “bitches get stuff done” was brilliant.
Then why is Trump such a bad President?
I may NOT like how far left she is…
But AOC IS a pretty damn smart politican….
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AOC: “I am two years younger than Mr Yoho’s youngest daughter. I am someone’s daughter too. My father, thankfully, is not alive to see how Mr Yoho treated his daughter.”
AOC excoriates Rep Ted Yoho after he called her a “f—ing b—h” on the steps of the Capitol.
Sure, it might be smart politics, but playing the “I’m just a young girl” card is about as anti-feminist as it gets.
Yoho is a jerk. Just about all of us have or have had jerks as co-workers and have had disputes with them. He never even used profanity to her.
Just curious how many actual women who consider themselves feminists you know and speak to?
Plenty I am sure.
But I don’t know what that has to do with anything.
Is what Yoho said to (and later about) AOC worse because she is a woman? Maybe it is and she and her allies seem to think so, but that’s means that there has to be one standard for men and one for women. If Yoho said something nasty to and later about Adam Schiff, nobody would really care.
Treating women with an increased sense of decorum is a traditional and conservative approach.
To your credit though, I suppose everything is equal in your eyes, because you are quick to point out that “die in a fire” was directed primarily at the female “Kentucky Republican.”
I’d say you should ask someone who considers themselves a feminist how they feel about what is and isn’t feminist.
That’s all.
I’ve said multiple times that I wish I has never made that comment 15 years ago.
Give it a rest. As to Kentucky Republullican I wish her no harm and ai imagine all tbe yearsvof burning crosses has made her very conscious 9f fire safety.
Whether someone embraces the “feminist” label or not, I would assume that just about all women believe in equality.
Now, AOC was not physically assaulted or threatened of course. Nothing was said to her about her looks or gender. It was just one person saying something nasty to another. That can be seen as wrong without regard to gender. She is going to play the age and gender card though for political purposes though.
If I am off base on this, I guess others need to be more careful what they say on here about Susan Collins.
Saying the wrong thing around reports is NOT a good Look…
AOC seems to be able throw political punches just as good as come the other guys there…
GOPer’s might want to watch their star with the list term lawmakers from Queens….
I’d say cool your jets a bit for now on AOC
You are going to have years–decades likely–of defending Republicans who once embraced Trump that she makes mincemeat out of.
He, he, he….
Well guys?
people HAVE thrown a Lot at AOC…
Who on here has ever called Susan Collins a bitch? Or f—ing bitch?
She’s spineless. That has nothing to do with her having male or female genitalia.
It seems like she has her sites first set on a former top Trump campaign cash recipient, Chuck Schumer.
I guess you are already predicting her success in that.
I doubt she could get Schumer’s job….
Remember….
His election is STATE WIDE….
I doubt she plays well outside the 5 boro’s of NYC
you should pay closer attention to Keith’s comments.
I remember that several months ago, AOC played the “women of color” card against none other than Nancy Pelosi as well.
AOC voted FOR Pelosi to be Speaker CG…
They are fine with each other…
Yoho (who is from FL not TX) is leaving Congress this year and AOC is planning to run against Schumer.
He’s the one that maybe needs to worry most.
AOC was not correct when she inferred that Nancy Pelosi was critical of her and other Squad members because Pelosi targets “women of color.”
or was she?
She doesn’t play well outside of NYC?
Well, they used to say the same thing about Schumer.
Cuomos too.
The NYC vote would dominate a D primary there. Would you vote in the primary?
Schumer has NO problem with AOC….
and over a year after she voted for her to be Speaker, she claimed that any criticism from Pelosi of “the Squad” was because they were “women of color.”
AOC likes to play that card. Schumer is going to have his hands full.
He’ll have plenty to say about her once she announces against him.
You working for her CG?…..
Maybe Schumer would hire me. He was right on the Iran vote after all.
I see Corey Ray’s obsession with me continues unabated.
I am not a Member of Congress calling another Member a fucking bitch. So stick your silly whataboutisms. They’ll fit.
Here’s what I call Collins. Loser!
On another front, Stephen Miller’s grandmother has died of the virus, but Miller has publicly denied that’s how she died.
H Keith, for one, Ray is not even close. You can do better than that. I even have said in the past what the R stands for.
Next, you could never be a Member of Congress for some pretty obvious reasons. So, you are free to just be what you thought was an anonymous blogger, spouting racism, misogyny, and homophobia, but that has to be nothing but a consolation.
If what you said is true, you went to Ohio and insulted women far worse than Yoho did and likely won votes for Trump in the process. You will have live with that too. And of course, you can point out once again that Bernie Sanders’ wife may in your eyes be overweight.
Again, more whataboutisms from someone who clearly doesn’t understand that professional women don’t like being called a “fucking bitch” by a colleague.
These back handed excuses for yet another Republican neanderthal Member of Congress are simply amusing. Would you like to have your mother called a “fucking bitch” by some bloated good old boy from Texas Corey Ray? Would you?
Ted’s comments were so typical, so common, and so Republican. Something he would have said around the bar at the Republican Club (sans mask) because he would never be overheard by a woman there that’s for sure.
It is beyond me why you make excuses for Ted Yoho. Obviously some of your agitation is born from a fear that your party is going down the shitter big time in November.
AOC was brilliant today. You could learn from her Corey if you would only bother to listen.
I think you are actually the Trump Republican, and have been for decades.
Sorry for anyone’s loss , but the guy lives Trump’s alternate universe…
Biden coming in is gonna give him heartburn and probably a seat on some Fox News show…
Meanwhile Trump tweeted that “suburban housewives of America must read this article. Biden will destroy your neighborhood and your American dream”
Let’s see if CG goes off on Republicans who will fail to point out the sexism AND underlying racism in that?
Nope, easier to go back and pick apart AOC for replying to a sexist jerk instead of letting it slide.
Trump is taking his cues straight from the campaign playbook used by Keith and his pals circa 1983.
I do of course hear the racist dog whistle there, but not sure the “sexist” angle.
Do you actually know a lot of women who prefer to be addressed as “suburban housewives”?
You really are out of touch.
Well, there’s “Desperate Housewives” and a million different “Real Housewives” franchises, all shows with many female liberal fans. Are those all sexist?
The whole “Biden is going to destroy the suburbs” is obvious and deplorable enough on its own. Don’t get sidetracked by distractions.
And yes, it is exactly the same ploy used in the past made to scare white people about “others.”
Yeah none of those people in those shows are real. Even the ones on “reality” shows.
I’m just saying it sounds weird in 2020 for a politician to make a pitch like that.
Trump and Biden both make very weird pitches in 2020.
The “housewives” as a sexist device is a political dead-end though. Focus on the bigger picture.
As I said earlier Trump has an outdated view that suburbanites fear the cities when those who actually fear them have moved out to timbuktu.
My view of his tweet about “suburban housewives” is that it is in that same outdated vein. That they live in the burbs because they are fearful of urban neighborhoods and minorities. It’s not the 1950’s anymore.
Not that he has any clue of how any American–urban, rural, or suburban actually lives.
I actually do not think you understand the suburbs that well.
It’s not about racism necessarily but of disrupting a certain lifestyle.
And yes, plenty of black people and other minorities live in the suburbs as well of course and want them to not “change.”
Well I’ve lived in both suburbs and the city so I probably understand both a little better than you.
Change is the one constant in life.
I understand that people choose where they live for a reason and there are people who prefer the suburbs and those who prefer the city.
Trump seems to think those who choose to live in the burbs in 2020 are making that choice for the same reason people moved to the suburbs 50-60 years ago, aka white flight. As you mention the suburbs have changed a lot since then. As have the cities.
You admit that Trump’s comments on this are a racist dog whistle but now you either agree with Trump or just want to argue with me.
Either way I gotta go. Have a good night!
Maybe you have been away too long.
A lot of people go from the suburbs to the city back to the suburbs in order to raise children. People of all races often want to live in the suburbs in order to raise their kids.
They do not want the suburbs to be like the city. They want a “quieter” lifestyle.
yes, there are certainly too many people who have racial prejudice, but that’s not the crux of it for most people.
With the lousy economy gonna be MORE lefties from the cities going back home also…
And plenty of people in 2020 who can move to the suburbs choose to raise kids in the city.
Maybe you should go into some city neighborhoods more often and see how many strollers are around compared to 20 years ago.
Again, gotta go!
and those who move from the city to the suburbs in order to raise families do so for specific reasons. I do not think “white flight” is a main factor these days. People want their kids to know a diverse group of people, but they also do not want to have large noisy parties going on late at night on their block, etc.
Also, they can afford to move to places that have better schools, which is an argument why poor people in urban areas should have the same kind of school choice.
And have a good night of course.
Those in the city with the baby strollers often also move by the time the kid starts school.
Have you ever lived in the city CG?
I’ve never officially lived in Chicago (which is is a much bigger city than St. Louis of course), but spent plenty of time in…. though admittedly only the “safer” parts of it.
Yeah you be been to a few Cubs games.Got it
Ive been to many Cubs games and a few Sox, Bears, Bulls, and Blackhawks too.
And I’ve of course been many other places in Chicago with friends and relatives.
Besides college, I have lived in Cook County all my life, so I’m not exactly some rube.
I could never live somewhere though where I wouldn’t know where to park.
Lot of minority and even new immigrants live in the suburbs in the NY Metro area…
Bad bet for Trump in some places on the suburbs….
And people in their 30’s now like Scott says ARE Different in their views…
I wonder would Trump’s comment’s balance against the guys in Portland throwing treat gass at mothers in front of a Federal courthouse?
There was a common catchphrase, to which few objected, for the “Suburban Housewives of America”,
Soccer moms.
But I guess Donald Trump is stuck in the era before suburban kids played much soccer, and therefore soccer moms weren’t the fiercely-fought-for electorate which he seems to be losing rather handily at the moment.
Much more comforting to revert to images and themes from “Leave It to Beaver”.
Culturally the term “housewives” has changed a good deal thanks to tv shows in the pop culture.
I am sure Ted Yoho made a few “Beaver jokes” back at the Republican Club after he verbally assaulted AOC.
One of the “domestic terror” ads from the Trump campaign uses stock footage from a Ukrainian anti-Putin demonstration. His campaign is so expensively disorganized that it’s funny and frightening all at the same time.
Of course Trump is stuck in a forgotten era and he still speaks the language of racists to his Republican base.
I am reading Mary Trump’s book about the grudges Trump holds, and has held, for years. She recounts a story about her now dead father at the age of 14 dumping a bowl of mashed potatoes on Donnie’s head at 7. Trump retold the story over 60 years later at a White House family birthday party. It still bothers Trump after all these years. Sound familiar?
Let’s see if those suburban housewives respond to this fear mongering (see Richard Nixon). Would that be the same suburban housewives that flooded the polls to propel Biden to the Democratic nomination.
The upscale suburban women who helped Biden win the nomination as first time D primary voters are unlikely to buy into Trump’s “before it’s too late” tactics because they are so transparent.
Nonetheless, people of all sorts do not want to see mob rule on the streets toppling statues of Lincoln, etc, or burning down federal courthouses or proclaiming that “all cops are bastards.”
This would all be a lot tougher for you guys if you went with Sanders.
Yoho is a veterinarian. Perhaps he has treated a beaver or two in the past.
It’s more likely that he stuck his hand and arm up a cow’s ass.
I bet the little Republican pig liked it.
I just realized why these Republicans hate AOC so much. She’s beautiful and smart, and completely unobtainable by anyone remotely like them.
My overall point is that the suburbs–at least the inner ring suburbs of most cities–are voting increasingly like the cities they surround these days.
We can go back and forth about what the motivations are of those who live in the city vs. suburb, but data actually backs up that fact.
Take for example St. Louis County, which used to vote 55-60% Republican while the city of St. Louis voted 80% Democratic.
Now the county votes about 60% Democratic in most elections.
Similarly look at old election maps of Illinois–the collar counties outside of Cook County used to be red. All blue now.
Even Orange County–which was home to the “stereotypical suburban Republican” for decades–went for Clinton over Trump.
I honestly don’t think the Trump campaign thinks it can win the suburbs back with it’s “fear the city” campaign. Most suburbs are more racially diverse than they were a few decades ago.
Like his entire reelection push it’s about maximizing the white votes in smaller rural counties.
Any problem with ur suburb comment becoming a post Scott?…
Nope. go ahead
Done…..
I have been thinking about the whole “fucking bitch” controversy today and still find it amazing that someone would try to excuse Ted Yoho with the old, “but he didn’t say it directly to her face” excuse. When, of course, he yelled it loud enough for everyone, including a reporter heard him and fully understood to whom the comment was directed.
Once again, a Republican makes an offensive comment and we endlessly play what about. Ted said he apologized but couldn’t even bring himself to do that. He apologized for being misunderstood. What part of “fucking bitch” is a misunderstanding?
I was particularly amused when while Ted was “apologizing” he talked about how during his early marriage he and his wife were on food stamps. Whatever the fuck that had to do with the situation.
It is interesting to note that while Ted may have been on food stamps, he voted any number of times to cut food stamp funding. While, of course, he voted for the Trump tax cut.
Why anyone would defend this guy is beyond me. Could it be that they have a problem with liberal women that have their shit together?
Get used to it.
I wasn’t around yesterday afternoon but I read that ridiculous “yeah but” defense of that creep Yoho.
It was comical in trying to bring “feminism “, another favorite Right Wing bugaboo into the conversation.
Oh and just my two cents.
I still contend ,if her name was Smith instead of Cortez?
Yoho wouldn’t have said a thing.
It was quite ridiculous how our resident former and future Republican insisted AOC wasn’t a feminist because she had the gall to respond to an attack that did not mention her looks.