Rep. Cori Bush ‘reprimanded’ by Marjorie Taylor Greene, office move

• A Democratic congressman moves away from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
• Representative Cori Bush tweeted on Friday that Greene and her staff “berated” her in a hallway.
• Greene’s adoption of dangerous conspiracy theories has shaken his colleagues.
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Rep. Cori Bush announced on Friday that she was changing offices after an unmasked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene “berated” her and her staff in a hallway.

Bush, a freshman Democrat from Missouri, said in a tweet that she has decided to move offices for the safety of her staff and herself. Greene’s and Bush’s offices are located on the ground floor of the Longworth House office building, according to the Women’s Congress websites.

Greene, a newly elected Republican from Georgia, has harassed his colleagues on both sides of the aisle by peddling dangerous plots associated with the QAnon movement and refusing to wear a mask on the Hill.

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Bush added that Congress should pass a resolution she introduced following the Jan.6 uprising on the U.S. Capitol to investigate and potentially expel members like Greene who promoted conspiracies of former President Donald Trump. that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

—Cori Bush (@CoriBush) January 29, 2021

Friday also, Punchbowl News reported that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “intervened directly” in the case to have Bush transferred to a new office after being informed of the altercation, an action unprecedented in less than a month at the 117th Congress.

Progressive Congressman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted in support of Bush and berated Minority House Leader Kevin McCarthy for “losing control of his caucus” and allowing threats to “go unchecked”.

Representatives for Greene and Bush did not immediately return Insider’s requests for comment.

In a January 18 tweet, Greene accused Bush, a racial justice activist, of leading the group of protesters who marched for police reform through an upscale St. Louis neighborhood during the summer nationwide protests. 2020. The group was greeted by wealthy lawyers Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who came out of their homes brandishing guns at protesters.

—Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) January 18, 2021

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Greene won a second round of the primaries in August in the open race for the 14th deeply Republican congressional district in northwest Georgia and easily sailed to win the general election, despite concerns from some Republicans about his long history of espousing racism, Islamophobia and related conspiracy theories. with the vast QAnon movement.

New reports from liberal media watch group Media Matters revealed that Greene had published in support of false conspiracy theories that the 2012 school shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School and the school shooting of February 2018 in Parkland, Florida, had been organized by the government or “false flags.” ”

Recently remodeled video footage showed Greene berating and harassing Parkland student and gun control activist David Hogg as he traveled to Capitol Hill to meet with lawmakers in March 2019.

CNN also recently reported an activity on Facebook where Greene replied and liked posts that said FBI agents and Main Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Pelosi, should be executed.

And more recently, Media Matters uncovered a long Facebook post from 2018 in which Greene cited anti-Semitic tropes to suggest that the deadly California campfire was caused by a space laser possibly connected to Rotschchild Inc.

While McCarthy has said he will have a “conversation” with Greene about her social media messaging, she has yet to face any sort of official punishment from her caucus, such as seeing each other. decline committee assignments.

Pelosi and other Democrats criticized senior Republicans for appointing Greene to the House Committee on Education and Labor over his endorsement of conspiracy theories around the school shootings and active harassment of defenders student gun reform.

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