Rep. Elise Stefanik
Elise Marie Stefanik READ: Republicans voting to contest election results LIVE COVER: Congress certifies Biden victory after Pennsylvania and Arizona challenges fail Trump era collapses with scorched earth drama split MOP MORE (RN.Y.) has been removed from an advisory committee at Harvard University’s Policy Institute as a result of its false allegations of election fraud, the school announced Tuesday.
“In recent days, [director] Mark Gearan and I have spent a lot of time considering the role at the Institute of Politics of our fellow Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, whom I have included in this post, “Dean Douglas Elmendorf wrote to the committee.” Mark and I have read materials publicly, listened to students and alumni, and consulted with Harvard colleagues on this important issue. “
Elmendorf asked Stefanik to resign from the advisory committee, which he said he refused to do.
“My application was not about political parties, political ideology or their election as a presidential candidate. Rather, in my view, Elise has made public claims about electoral fraud in the November presidential election that have no evidence-based, and has made public statements about election-related lawsuits that are incorrect, “Elmendorf said. “Furthermore, these statements and statements do not reflect political disagreements, but are based on the foundations of the electoral process by which the leaders of this country are chosen.”
In a statement to The Hill, Stefanik said the decision to remove her from the committee shows Harvard’s willingness to “cover up and sink the awakened left.”
“The Ivory Tower’s move toward a monoculture of intolerant and like-minded liberal ideas demonstrates contemptuous contempt for everyday Americans and will instill a culture of fear in students who will understand that a conservative view will not be tolerated. and it will be silenced, ”Stefanik said. “I enjoy the opportunity to advocate for free speech and freedom of thought on college campuses across America. Congratulations Harvard, now the entire Board of the Institute of Politics is only made up of Joe Biden
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Stefanik, an ally of President Trump
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Stefanik also joined more than 100 members of the House to oppose the certification of the victory of the Biden Electoral College when a joint session of Congress met to certify them last week.
“I am not taking this action lightly. I am acting to protect our democratic process,” Stefanik said last week.
A crowd of angry Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday with the aim of stopping certification of Biden’s victory, a fact that Stefanik condemned, but did not deter her from opposing. to the election result after the attack.
“Tens of millions of Americans are concerned that the 2020 election will present an unconstitutional scope on the part of unelected state officials and judges who ignore state election laws,” he said after the riot. “We can and should peacefully discuss these concerns.”
Following the riots, hundreds of Harvard students, faculty, and alumni filed a petition with the school’s Politics Institute to disassociate itself from the North New York country congresswoman who graduated from Harvard in 2006. .
“We knew Rep. Stefanik was someone who held a position at Harvard, who was on the IOP’s Senior Advisory Committee, and so we thought we’d try to get her down,” said Megan O. Corrigan, a former student who went be the author of the petition. he told The Harvard Crimson. “He’s someone who shouldn’t have any legitimacy right now and Harvard gives him legitimacy.”