Did I Hear Right - Congressional Aides That Work In The Congressional Offices In D.C......

[global1]

for House Reps and Senators have signed a letter advocating that Tr**p be convicted?

If you've ever done any lobbying in Washington D.C. and walk the halls of the Senate and Congressional Bldgs - you know that it is young adults that essentially run Washington D.C.. These are the employees that work in the offices of Senators and Congressmen/women that handle the day to day happenings and meet with the public and pass on info to the Senator or Congress person.

Very rarely do you get to meet with a Congressman/woman or Senator in person. You mainly meet with their aides.

My understanding is that they put a letter together and had it signed by over 500 of these aides to vote to convict Tr**p.

I hope that they go on strike in the offices of any of the Senators that vote to acquit Tr**p. Who would want to work for someone that supports insurrection.

[CBHagman]

1. Yes, you heard right.

From The New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/us/politics/congress-trump-impeachment.html

WASHINGTON — More than 370 Democratic congressional aides issued an unusual public appeal on Wednesday, imploring senators — in some cases their own bosses — to convict former President Donald J. Trump for inciting a violent “attack on our workplace” that threatened the peaceful transition of power.

In a starkly personal letter, the staff members describe ducking under office desks, barricading themselves in offices or watching as they witnessed marauding bands of rioters who “smashed” their way through the Capitol on Jan. 6. Responsibility, they argue, lies squarely with Mr. Trump and his “baseless, monthslong effort to reject votes lawfully cast by the American people.”

“As congressional employees, we don’t have a vote on whether to convict Donald J. Trump for his role in inciting the violent attack at the Capitol, but our senators do,” they wrote. “And for our sake, and the sake of the country, we ask that they vote to convict the former president and bar him from ever holding office again.”

[intrepidity]

2. "More than 370 *Democratic* congressional aides..."

Democratic aides, that is not at all surprising.

[RockRaven]

3. Repuke Senators won't care because the aides are Democratic aides.

Hell, they wouldn't care of it was their own fucking aides...

[Moostache]

8. As I have watched the events happen this week, I question now if they would care period,.

Aides...their friends....their co-workers....shit, I doubt that many of them would care if it were their very families - children, wives, mothers, fathers - threatened by Trump and his evil minions.

This entire sell out of the Republican soul disgusts me to no end.

[Crash2Parties]

10. I'd hardly call it a Republican soul sellout

They've been heading this way since Reagan. This *is* the heart of who Republicans are; this is their soul.

[Tumbulu]

4. So the republicans, as usual, are filled with glee

As they love the idea that Democrats were terrorized.

[Hekate]

5. When I first heard about it yesterday or the day before, there were already 150 signatures...

Now there’s what? 500?

Good for them.

[Silver Gaia]

12. Yeah, on Brian Williams' show tonight, their spokesperson said 550 signatures!

I am impressed.

[Wednesdays]

6. They're preaching to the choir

since they're Democratic aides.
Wake me when there are Repug aides on board as well, and I don't mean one or two.

[rainin]

7. You know who else should walk out? Tomorrow? Capitol Police

They should stage a full-scale strike and refuse to work until Trump is convicted. They suffered and lost so much that day. They must be continually traumatized by the uncertainty. Will these congress critters they risk their lives for stand up for them when it counts? How do they continue to do their jobs if they acquit?

[bottomofthehill]

13. They cant

As a condition of their employment they can unionize and collectively bargain, but exercising self help like a strike or walkout is forbidden. Bless their professionalism even when treated like shit by those they are sworn to protect.

[PatrickforO]

9. That is a great thing. Kids speaking up and calling bullshit on dirtbags like Trump,

Cruz, Hawley, Gosar and all the rest. These Trump supporters are ugly, disgusting people, the worst this nation has to offer.

We have to drive them back under their slimy rocks and get our republic back.

[c-rational]

11. +1

[Silent3]

14. What I haven't heard yet is if many aides to Republican members...

...are among those who have signed that letter.

[Vivienne235729]

15. That will be key.