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10 Republicans that took part in the insurrection on 1/6 (Original Post) Tacan Nov 2021 OP
Can you list them and the specifics? Thanks in advance...n/t bluecollar2 Nov 2021 #1
At Least 10 Republicans Who Were At The Jan. 6 Rally Just Got Elected To Office Celerity Nov 2021 #3
A woman who got elected to my local school board was there. Initech Nov 2021 #2
I've been willing to wait and see, piddyprints Nov 2021 #4

Celerity

(43,357 posts)
3. At Least 10 Republicans Who Were At The Jan. 6 Rally Just Got Elected To Office
Sun Nov 7, 2021, 04:56 PM
Nov 2021
https://sports.yahoo.com/least-6-republicans-were-jan-154903441.html

At least 10 Republicans who attended the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, D.C., that turned into a deadly insurrection were elected to office Tuesday.

Three were elected to state legislatures, and seven won positions at the local level.

Although most have claimed they didn’t breach the U.S. Capitol on that day, all were participants in the demonstration leading up to the attack, standing alongside extremists to take part in the finale of a months-long anti-democratic campaign to falsely claim that then-President Donald Trump hadn’t really lost the 2020 election.

Their victories on Tuesday are a possible sign of things to come: HuffPost previously identified at 57 state and local GOP officials who attended the Jan. 6 rally, many of whom will be up for reelection — and will likely keep office — next year.

That these candidates enjoy the support of the wider Republican Party and are winning elections does not bode well for American democracy, showing that one of the country’s major political parties, despite some initial gestures at being horrified by the events of Jan. 6, is almost completely unrepentant over its role in fomenting the historic attack on the Capitol.

Initech

(100,075 posts)
2. A woman who got elected to my local school board was there.
Sun Nov 7, 2021, 04:45 PM
Nov 2021

And there was an attempt to recall her but it didn't get anywhere. Fuck these morons.

piddyprints

(14,642 posts)
4. I've been willing to wait and see,
Sun Nov 7, 2021, 06:08 PM
Nov 2021

because, you know, we've been told these things take time.

Still, I'm feeling a bit #burnedbyMueller after giving him the same benefit of the doubt.

I just tossed my "In Mueller we trust" sticker yesterday. I'm just so discouraged and sad that justice will never happen to the really bad guys in this country.

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