Home Dem Needs Lauren Boebert Censured For “Pimp Cane” Remark
Conservative Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert has a historical past of offensive habits. Her newest remarks about Texas Rep. Al Inexperienced have been broadly considered as racist—and now a Home Democrat needs Boebert censured.
Interview With Jasmine Crockett
Final week, Boebert voiced her disapproval for Inexperienced’s actions throughout Trump’s Congress handle throughout an look on “Actual America’s Voice.” Inexperienced was protesting Medicaid cuts proposed by the administration. He was ultimately escorted out of the U.S. Capitol chamber and censured for a “breach of correct conduct.”
“Al Inexperienced was given a number of alternatives to face down, to take a seat down, to behave, to point out decorum. And he didn’t,” Boebert mentioned. “For him to go and shake his pimp cane at President Trump was completely abhorrent.”
On Monday (March 10), Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Chrissy Houlahan known as the remarks “racist and derogatory” earlier than introducing a movement looking for to censure Boebert.
“After my dialogue on the Home ground final week when Speaker Johnson advised me he’d must censure half the members if he really enforced the foundations of the Congress, I made a decision to assist, and tonight launched a decision to censure Consultant Boebert for her racist and derogatory statements about Consultant Al Inexperienced (D-TX),” Houlahan defined in a press launch.
Throughout a second look on “Actual America’s Voice” Tuesday, Boebert doubled down on what she mentioned in regards to the Democratic Texas rep.
“I’ve seen [Green] shake [his cane] for years all all through the Capitol throughout any assembly that I’ve ever been current with him in, and if that gold-plated cane isn’t a pimp cane, I don’t know what’s,” Boebert said.
She additionally requested if Houlahan was “racist.” “Are solely Blacks pimps? Is that what I’m listening to? Are there no cisgender white pimps in America?”
Curiously sufficient, Boebert has her personal previous of talking out of activate the home ground. Again in 2022, she — alongside Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene —heckled former President Biden. Neither lady was censured.
One yr later, Greene heckled Biden once more and shouted “Liar!” throughout considered one of his speeches. A movement to censure her was launched, nevertheless it by no means handed.
Home Dem Needs Lauren Boebert Censured For “Pimp Cane” Remark
Conservative Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert has a historical past of offensive habits. Her newest remarks about Texas Rep. Al Inexperienced have been broadly considered as racist—and now a Home Democrat needs Boebert censured.
Interview With Jasmine Crockett
Final week, Boebert voiced her disapproval for Inexperienced’s actions throughout Trump’s Congress handle throughout an look on “Actual America’s Voice.” Inexperienced was protesting Medicaid cuts proposed by the administration. He was ultimately escorted out of the U.S. Capitol chamber and censured for a “breach of correct conduct.”
“Al Inexperienced was given a number of alternatives to face down, to take a seat down, to behave, to point out decorum. And he didn’t,” Boebert mentioned. “For him to go and shake his pimp cane at President Trump was completely abhorrent.”
On Monday (March 10), Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Chrissy Houlahan known as the remarks “racist and derogatory” earlier than introducing a movement looking for to censure Boebert.
“After my dialogue on the Home ground final week when Speaker Johnson advised me he’d must censure half the members if he really enforced the foundations of the Congress, I made a decision to assist, and tonight launched a decision to censure Consultant Boebert for her racist and derogatory statements about Consultant Al Inexperienced (D-TX),” Houlahan defined in a press launch.
Throughout a second look on “Actual America’s Voice” Tuesday, Boebert doubled down on what she mentioned in regards to the Democratic Texas rep.
“I’ve seen [Green] shake [his cane] for years all all through the Capitol throughout any assembly that I’ve ever been current with him in, and if that gold-plated cane isn’t a pimp cane, I don’t know what’s,” Boebert said.
She additionally requested if Houlahan was “racist.” “Are solely Blacks pimps? Is that what I’m listening to? Are there no cisgender white pimps in America?”
Curiously sufficient, Boebert has her personal previous of talking out of activate the home ground. Again in 2022, she — alongside Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene —heckled former President Biden. Neither lady was censured.
One yr later, Greene heckled Biden once more and shouted “Liar!” throughout considered one of his speeches. A movement to censure her was launched, nevertheless it by no means handed.