Eli Crane Dreams of White Christmas
Expulsion of Rep. George Santos, Eli Crane's racist Christmas decor, and an update on Sen. Markwayne Mullin's fight challenge.
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BYE, GEORGE
Rep. George Santos arrived just before 10:30 Friday morning to his expulsion vote on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, the first since Jim Traficante was expelled in 2002.
Expulsion votes are exceedingly rare. Three confederate members after the Civil War. Michael Myers for bribery in 1980. Traficante.
And now Santos, a New York Republican fraudster, who walked the floor alone and ignored until Congressman Tim Burchett, a Tennessee Republican, gave him a fist bump.
It was all downhill from there for Santos who was expelled from Congress by a vote of 311-114. A two-thirds majority was required to remove him. Asked by The Independent’s Eric Garcia what he will do on his first day after Congress, “Sleeping in,” said Santos.
— Pablo
ELI CRANE DREAMS OF A WHITE CHRISTMAS
Christmas decor outside of Rep. Eli Crane’s (R-AZ) office is xenophobic. He told Capitol Press Tuesday he wanted to design “something that had a lot to do with Arizona being a border state” and that it had “some of the cities in Arizona in our district up on it and support for the Border Patrol.”
When asked what his message was for migrants who clean the House office buildings, Rep. Crane responded by asking, “Are you saying there’s illegals working in the office buildings?”
“My message is that legal immigration is a great thing - a big part of the American dream. My problem - and the people that I represent don’t have a problem with legal immigration - it’s the illegal immigration that they have a problem with and I sure hope that there aren’t any illegal immigrants working in the house office,” Rep. Crane said.
— Arturo, Pablo
SEN. MULLEN AGREES TO FIGHT BARENUCKLE WITH TEAMSTER
A couple of weeks ago Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) challenged Sean O’Brien, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to a fight in the Senate.
The confrontation was a culmination of insults by O’Brien towards Sen. Mullin on X (formerly Twitter). Mullin, a longtime critic of unions, was called a “moron” and told he was “full of shit” in several posts by O’Brien.
During the hearing, Sen. Mullin read a different post by O’Brien that seemed to challenge Mullin to a fight saying, “Quit the tough guy act in these senate hearings. You know where to find me. Anyplace, Anytime cowboy,” followed by the hashtag #LittleManSyndrome - an apparent jab at Mullin for standing on a box to make him seem taller during a debate in June.
On Tuesday, Sen. Mullin responded to questions about fighting O’Brien on Pay-Per-View by saying he would “100%” accept that challenge at the Smoke and Guns charity event in Tulsa, Oklahoma in April 2024. The event features fights between members of the Firefighters Union against members of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) to benefit several charities.
“I go to it every year and I usually speak at it and that’s the one that I told him, I said look, it’s in April so let’s do it. I can wear boxing gloves, he can wear three-ounce gloves, I don’t care, we can go bare knuckles, I don’t care.”
— Arturo, Pablo
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