Wait a fucking Minute?
After the ‘Tar and Feathered’ comment at California Governor Newsom?
We have THIS?
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Thursday said Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) should be censured after he tried to approach and question Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during a press conference in Los Angeles, prompting federal agents to forcibly remove him from the room and handcuff him.
Video of the altercation — captured by reporters on the scene — sent shock waves through the Capitol, with Democrats slamming the way law enforcement personnel handled Padilla, and Republicans condemning the senator’s conduct at the media availability.
Pressed on whether Padilla should face consequences, Johnson initially demurred — ”it’s not my decision to make, I’m not in that chamber” — before endorsing censure for the California Democrat.
“I think that that behavior at a minimum rises to the level of a censure,” Johnson told reporters. “I think there needs to be a message sent by the body as a whole that that is not what we’re going to do, that’s not what we’re going to act.”
“We’re not going to have branches fighting physically and having senators charging Cabinet secretaries,” he added. “We got to do better and I hope that we will.”…
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“Senator Padilla is currently in Los Angeles exercising his duty to perform Congressional oversight of the federal government’s operations in Los Angeles and across California,” Padilla’s office said in a statement immediately after the altercation.
“He was in the federal building to receive a briefing with General Guillot and was listening to Secretary Noem’s press conference. He tried to ask the Secretary a question, and was forcibly removed by federal agents, forced to the ground and handcuffed. He is not currently detained, and we are working to get additional information….
Note…
Something BAD IS beginning to happen here in America….
Democratic Elected members are being DENTAINED for doing their job of asking questions and going to observe the working of government operation that they are ask to vote on funding….
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