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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.
Beringia
(4,316 posts)Perfect response
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)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)nationalist, violent fucksticks out there drooling over the chance to MAGAT her.