First-year Democratic congresswoman Cori Bush is moving her office away from Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who tweeted Friday. Bush said her partner “threatened” and “denied” both her and her staff.
Greene has been widely condemned by many House Democrats as she has promoted a number of conspiracy theories and agreed with statements that Democrats should be executed. A House Democrat says he plans to file a motion next week to oust her from the House.
Bush initially he tweeted who was moving his office due to Greene’s behavior Friday. In a later statement, Bush described an incident Jan. 13 in the tunnel between the Cannon House office building and the Capitol, when he said Greene “came out from behind me, getting strong on his phone without wear a mask “. The day before, several Democrats had announced that they had tested positive for COVID-19 after being locked up with Republican members who refused to wear masks during the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
“Out of concern for the health of my staff, other members of Congress and their Congressional staff, I called him repeatedly to put on a mask. Taylor Greene and her staff responded by denouncing me, along with a staff member. shouting, “Stop inciting violence with Black Lives Matter,” Bush continued. Greene also “attacked” Bush on Twitter on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Bush said, “for falsely accusing me of directing a crowd calling for the ‘rape, murder and burning of the house’ “of the McCloskey family in St. Louis, so it targets me as a target for hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers”.
“All of this led to my decision to move my office to Taylor Greene’s for the safety of my computer. My office is currently being relocated to the Longworth House office building,” Bush said. . An aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed to CBS News that the change in room assignment was by direct order of the speaker at Bush’s request.
Bush later, he tweeted that he did not move his office “out of fear.”
“I changed my office because I’m here to do a job for the people of St. Louis,” he wrote. “What I can’t do is keep looking over my shoulder, wondering if a white congressional supremacist is conspiring against me and my team.”
Greene posted a video on Twitter Friday afternoon defying Bush’s claim. The video shows Greene walking through the tunnels under the Capitol when someone, allegedly Bush, calls him to follow the rules and wear a mask. In the tweet, Greene says Bush is the “leader of the St. Louis Black Lives Matter terrorist crowd” who “lies to you” and “denied me.”
Since taking the oath earlier this month, Greene has received backlash from his congressional colleagues. California Democrat Jimmy Gomez is expected to table his resolution to oust Greene from the House of Representatives as early as next Tuesday.
In a statement Wednesday night announcing his plan, Gomez cited Green’s amplification of conspiracy theories related to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and mass shootings at Marjory Stoneman High School. Douglas, as well as his past support for posts on social media calling for violence against Pelosi and other Democratic politicians. The parents of some of the students who died during the 2018 shooting in Parkland, Florida, echoed Gomez’s call for Greene’s resignation. On Thursday, CNN reported the existence of a 2019 video showing Greene harassing teenager David Hogg, a survivor of the shooting.
Connecticut Democrat Jahana Hayes, who represents the district where Newtown is located, where there is another school shooting, sent a letter to the Republican leadership of the House and to the top Republican on the House Education and Work Committee, North Carolina Representative Virginia Foxx, to remove Greene from her new position on that committee.
Media Matters for America reported Thursday that Greene had written a post on Facebook in 2018 with the anti-Semitic claim that a space laser controlled by a nefarious group had started wildfires in California.
However, a Greene spokeswoman told CBS News that she he will not resign.
“They come after me because I’m a threat to their goal of socialism. They come after me because they know I represent the people, not politicians. They come after me because, like President Trump, I will always defend the Conservatives want to get me out because I represent the “And they absolutely hate it,” Greene said in a statement.