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TexasTowelie

(116,601 posts)
Wed Jan 13, 2021, 06:44 AM Jan 2021

Criticism grows of GOP lawmakers, including Pa.'s Perry, who refused masks while sheltering during

Criticism grows of GOP lawmakers, including Pa.’s Perry, who refused masks while sheltering during Capitol riot


WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden on Monday chastised GOP lawmakers, including one from Pennsylvania, for refusing to wear masks while they were held in a safe location as a violent mob of pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol last week.

As lawmakers waited for law enforcement to secure the Capitol on Wednesday, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., went around a packed room passing out masks to people without them, to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

“When they were hiding from the mob, she was going around trying to hand out masks to everybody,” Biden said to a group of reporters. “And her Republican colleagues wouldn’t wear a mask. I think it’s irresponsible.”

In a video obtained by Punchbowl News, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.; Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla.; Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.; Scott Perry, R-10th District, and Michael Cloud, R-Texas, were all not wearing masks, and they turned down the disposable masks that Rochester was offering.

Read more: https://www.penncapital-star.com/government-politics/criticism-grows-of-gop-lawmakers-including-pa-s-perry-who-refused-masks-while-sheltering-during-capitol-riot/
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Criticism grows of GOP lawmakers, including Pa.'s Perry, who refused masks while sheltering during (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2021 OP
Republicans Are A Disease DanieRains Jan 2021 #1
They should be thrown out of Congress! SheltieLover Jan 2021 #2
Aside from having the attitude that no one has a right to direct Harker Jan 2021 #4
I was just thinking about this a few hours ago, whether that's the real issue with masks! SheltieLover Jan 2021 #5
Yes! Smirks off... Harker Jan 2021 #6
Absofuckingloutely! SheltieLover Jan 2021 #7
Greene laughed at her BeyondGeography Jan 2021 #3

Harker

(14,859 posts)
4. Aside from having the attitude that no one has a right to direct
Wed Jan 13, 2021, 08:44 AM
Jan 2021

their behavior, I think they're so enamored with themselves that they think covering their faces deprives the world of being able to enjoy their beauty.

Anonymity is frightening to them.

SheltieLover

(59,538 posts)
5. I was just thinking about this a few hours ago, whether that's the real issue with masks!
Wed Jan 13, 2021, 09:06 AM
Jan 2021

Narcissius did love to stare at himself. I suppose repukes feel others should enjoy looking at them.

I do! In well-deserved mug shots!

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