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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,034 posts)
Wed Aug 28, 2019, 07:17 PM Aug 2019

Omar fires back after Alabama GOP calls for her expulsion

Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is firing back in a public feud with the Alabama Republican Party. Omar called out the state GOP for its support of a Senate candidate that was embroiled in numerous sexual assault allegations, after the state party urged that she be expelled from Congress.

According to AL.com, Alabama Republicans moved to support a resolution calling for the removal of the freshman congresswoman, citing her past controversial statements on the September 11th terrorist attacks, which her supporters said were taken out of context; comments she made on campaign finance that many considered to be anti-Semitic, for which she apologized; and her staunch support of the Palestinian people in the face of the Israeli government.

In their resolution, the party calls for its state's congressional delegation to begin the process of seeking Omar's expulsion from the House.

Omar, however, noted that she was elected by the people of Minnesota's fifth congressional district, "not the Alabama Republican party."

In that same tweet, Omar suggested that if Republicans wanted to "clean up politics" they shouldn't move to nominate "an accused child molester as your Senate candidate" — an apparent reference to embattled former judge Roy Moore, who lost a special election for Senate in 2017 after several women went public with allegations against him.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/omar-fires-back-after-alabama-gop-calls-for-her-expulsion/ar-AAGs04M?li=BBnb7Kz

Ouch! That's going to leave a mark.

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Omar fires back after Alabama GOP calls for her expulsion (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2019 OP
Ride on Omar, you rock Beringia Aug 2019 #1
+1,000 malaise Aug 2019 #6
History of Alabama struggle4progress Aug 2019 #2
Go Rep Omar stick it to those redneck, ignorant asshats gopiscrap Aug 2019 #3
WTF is a state political party doing opining on a federal congressperson? maxsolomon Aug 2019 #4
I so fear for this wonderful woman's life, there are tens of thousands of slack-jawed white Celerity Aug 2019 #5
E*f those Republicans. LiberalFighter Aug 2019 #7

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)
4. WTF is a state political party doing opining on a federal congressperson?
Wed Aug 28, 2019, 07:41 PM
Aug 2019

And not even her state of MN?

My theory: she makes a really clear target for a bunch of dumb Crackers who are scared of their own shadows.

Celerity

(43,408 posts)
5. I so fear for this wonderful woman's life, there are tens of thousands of slack-jawed white
Wed Aug 28, 2019, 07:43 PM
Aug 2019

nationalist, violent fucksticks out there drooling over the chance to MAGAT her.

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