Nevada Democrats question Amodei's motives
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Mon, 09/25/2023 - 11:04am
Dear Representative Amodei,
When the Republicans took control of the House this past January, your GOP colleagues decided that one of their first orders of business was to remove Representative Ilhan Omar, MN CD5, from her committee assignments.
The removal from her committee assignments, possibly because she is a Muslim woman who is the first naturalized citizen of African birth to serve in Congress, as stated, was because of past comments she made taken to be anti-semitic.
Her removal was in spite of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries stating "Omar has certainly made mistakes, but has apologized and has indicated she'll learn from her mistakes and is working to build bridges with the Jewish community.”
However, another member of the U. S. House of Representatives, and your fellow Republican, has done far worse and has made "controversial remarks" far more frequently, without apologies, with one exception. Though she was only removed from her committee assignments for those egregiously serious and repeated remarks, including those following the attempted coup on January 6, 2021, and more recently the arraignment of Donald J. Trump, Republicans decided she “deserved” to be reinstated.
Democrats had removed Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia for her own anti-semetic remarks, claiming Jewish lasers in space were the cause of the horrific forest fires in the Western United States, rather than accepting the overwhelming and compelling scientific evidence leading to the conclusion and consensus climate change is the cause of the devastation of our forests, worldwide and thus insulting our Jewish community.
Additionally, Rep. Greene has fully embraced Q-Anon conspiracies, including "Pizzagate", baselessly accused the Clintons of murder, advocates for political violence, cavorts with self proclaimed Nazi's like Nick Fuentes, proposes we become "Red" states and "Blue" states and if a Democrat wants to move to a "Red" state, they can't vote, (in essence a proposal that sounds like it was put forth in 1861, not 2023) and is tantamount to secession.
Greene also claims our own federal government is involved and somehow responsible for mass shootings in our country, has compared Covid-19 lockdowns to the Jewish Holocaust (for which she did eventually apologize), promoted Russian propaganda, praised Vladimir Putin, participated with a group of GOP legislators to unsuccessfully challenge the 2021 Electoral College vote in spite of dozens of lost legal challenges, has stalked and harassed a high school mass shooting victim from Florida while in the halls of Congress.
Additionally, Greene has stated publicly she had been in charge of the January 6th, 2021 attempted coup claiming "we would have won because we would have brought guns!", has recently been reprimanded in a committee hearing in which she insulted a Cabinet Member calling him a "liar", resulting in the Chair of the Committee to censure her for the remainder of the hearing, and the long list continues.
We have a white supremicist, Nazi sympathizer, secssion advocating, and mean spirited, member of our hallowed halls of the U.S. Congress. Greene is an embarrassment to our Nation, yet continues to carry on spewing her divisive message.
These two representatives, Omar and Greene, are glaring hypocritical positions of your Party. To restrict a Member of Congress from committee service for making a regrettable remark, then apologizing for it and saying she'd learn from her mistake, then to allow another member whom it has been iterated herein, over a dozen ethics infractions, one alone would be enough to consider removal not only from committee work but from the Congress altogether, seems blatantly hypocritical.
Considering the apparent hypocrisy of your political Party, Mr. Amodei, we demand that you explain how you reconcile the actions of your Party's glaring hypocrisy.
Representative Omar made a mistakenly anti-semetic remark, and Rep. Greene says the Jews are burning our forests. This begs the question; how do you explain this hypocrisy? We are your constituents too, as you were elected to represent everyone in Nevada's Congressional District 2. So we, your constituents all residing in your District, demand an explanation so we can better understand your motivation, particularly on the eve of your re-election bid.
Respectfully,
The Democratic Chairs of Carson City, Churchill, Elko, Lyon, White Pine Counties and The Rural Nevada Democratic Party Caucus
