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friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
Tue Jun 23, 2020, 05:17 PM Jun 2020

Small group of GOPers have a playdate at Idaho's statehouse, pretend to legislate

Complete with tears and delusions of grandeur, it was little more than a Busy Box for right-wing adults.

Note also that 73.7% of the ID House Republicans decided not to show up...

https://www.idahopress.com/coronavirus/self-called-legislative-session-ends-with-no-votes-no-action/article_543e34e2-7bdc-59e2-bee9-601a5e0fe368.html


Self-called legislative session ends with no votes, no action


BOISE — Fifteen House Republicans gathered in the House chamber on Tuesday morning, but despite calls from far-right groups, they didn’t take any votes or attempt to conduct any legislative business.

“This is not a session of the Legislature,” Rep. Judy Boyle, R-Midvale, told the group, as they assembled in the well of the House, seated in a tight circle. “We do not have a quorum.”...

...“But in your heart of hearts you know that that’s just not where you’re at,” Nichols said. “We’re done. We’re done with the whole shebang and it feels like there’s no end in sight.”

She teared up as she talked of rioting and statues being torn down around the nation, and said she fears losing our country.


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Small group of GOPers have a playdate at Idaho's statehouse, pretend to legislate (Original Post) friendly_iconoclast Jun 2020 OP
Ammon Bundy and goons showing out. TexasTowelie Jun 2020 #1
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