All five Republican members of the U.S. House from Kentucky voted in support of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green in her fight to keep her committee assignments.
Green is the recently elected member from Georgia, who has come under attack for numerous statements she has made, both in the past and since being elected to Congress.
The Kentucky Republicans voted to let her keep her committee memberships, including the one on the Education committee, even though she had said that the Sandy Hook and Parkland massacres of school children were fake.
Greene has also famously endorsed violence against various Democrats, including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
Only 11 Republicans voted with all the Democrats to strip Greene of her assignments. Three of those were from south Florida, where the Parkland shooting took place.
After Reps. Comer, Guthrie, Massey, Barr, and Rogers decided to stand with Greene, the chair of the Kentucky Democratic Party, Colmon Elridge, issued this statement:
“After flirting with it for weeks, 5 of the 6 members of Kentucky’s U.S. House of Representatives delegation proved with one vote that they are fully surrendering to a radical QAnon conspiracy theorist who questions the 9/11 attacks, school shootings, and so many other terrible incidents in our country’s history, and whose final goal is the mass execution of Democrats in this country.
“I have known Representatives Comer, Guthrie, Rogers, and Barr for years. I’ve prayed with them and worked with them. While Representative Massie has always embraced fringe and dangerous rhetoric, these men had an opportunity to show Kentuckians that they could be trusted to help move our country in the right direction, but instead chose to double down with the lunatic fringe.
That they believe my life, and the lives of Kentucky Democrats, are worthless enough not to hold one of their ranks accountable simply because she is a Republican is a sad commentary of how they abandoned Kentucky values to embrace the toxicity of Washington. They have embarrassed themselves and the commonwealth with their actions today. Kentucky deserves better.”
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