Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi tried to steal a GOP House seat won by Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks with six votes.
There was a recount and then the election was certified.
The Democratic challenger Rita Hart didn’t go to court over the 20 votes she felt might go to her in part. Instead, she went running to Pelosi to fight for her to win the seat.
It backfired badly and Rita Hart withdrew her challenge.
“I have made the decision to withdraw my contest before the House Committee on Administration,” Hart announced on Wednesday.
“Despite our best efforts to have every vote counted, the reality is that the toxic campaign of political disinformation to attack this constitutional review of the closest congressional contest in 100 years has effectively silenced the voices of Iowans,” Hart added.
During an interview last week while discussing the matter, Pelosi stated that as Speaker, she can remove any member of Congress she wants.
“Now, if I wanted to be unfair, I wouldn’t have seated the Republican from Iowa because that was my right on the opening day,” Pelosi said.
“I would have just said ‘you’re not seated’ and that would have been my right as Speaker to do.”
Sounds a bit despotic.
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Notice that the actual reason for the withdrawal has been concealed. Whatever it is, it is substantial. And of course the useless republican party will not find out nor tell us. The left does not stop their onslaught for nothing. Probably, massive fraud favoring the democrat was going to be exposed.
Did the chamber of commerce (GOP) grow a backbone? Bwahaha! Just kidding.
Maybe Glennie Beck can pass some soccer balls out to migrant agri workers in Iowastan.
Nancy Pelosi is truly mad! She really thinks she alone has the power to say who can be in the House of Representatives and who can’t. Someone needs to inform her that it’s The People’s House, not hers!
Right on!
Too many botox treatments. And NO, Nanny P, the Supremes have already confirmed.
In 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Speaker of the House could not exclude a duly-elected candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives. In Powell v. McCormack, 395 U.S. 486 (1969), the Supreme Court ruled that the House’s Constitutional authority to judge the qualifications of its own members was post facto and could only be exercised via expulsion after a 2/3rd affirmative vote. In other words, the House and Senate have no discretion when deciding whether to seat a candidate who has been duly elected under state law, but may take steps to expel that member after they have been sworn-in.
A legend in her own mind