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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMaddow reported the tours were Hours long.
There were multiple tours. Loudermilk must be removed from congress.
essaynnc
(801 posts)fightforfreedom
(4,913 posts)essaynnc
(801 posts)We saw the videos of people breaking and entering into the capital via security footage. And you know it had to be recording on the days previous. And there was talk right after January 6th of tours. So let's see the good! I want to know how many Congress critters, or their people gave tours.
I have a long standing bet with someone at work that this will come out in the wash. I dare say the damn is about to break, and I'll win my dollar!
Emile
(22,669 posts)be removed from Congress.
SKKY
(11,803 posts)...she noticed. There is still a good bit to be reported about this. Was Loudermilk one of the Republicans who lobbied Trump for a pre-emptive pardon??
gab13by13
(21,304 posts)from 1/6/2021. It should be easy for the FBI to obtain all of the footage, if they decide to investigate.
Investigating Loudermilk will be looked upon by Magats as Garland being partisan. So far GQP politicians appear to be off base.
I have another question, I guess for the select committee since I see no FBI involvement, how friendly was Loudermilk with the people on the tour, they are from Georgia.
malaise
(268,930 posts)Lock them all up!
multigraincracker
(32,673 posts)were not even from the state they represent.
OneGrassRoot
(22,920 posts)by Seth Abramson:
New Revelations Emerge About the Members of the Loudermilk Tour and Their Connections to Leading Republican Elected Officials
https://sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-news-new-revelations-emerge?s=r
He talks about Danny Hamilton who runs bus tours (mainly MAGA-oriented), and also that there were SEVEN buses.
Yet a by far more significant fact revealed in the documentation for the tour is that it made an official stop to pick up passengers in South Carolina (one of the other states Rep. Loudermilk chose to speak about in his insurrectionist pep talk on the morning of January 5). This means that some significant percentage of the participants in the seven-bus caravan Loudermilk boasted about to Tony Perkins on Insurrection Eve as hailing entirely from his district were not even from Georgia at all. This alone casts significant doubt on Loudermilks claims that he knew his tour recipients from church.
sop
(10,156 posts)was merely snapping pics of the light fixtures:
"Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk claims the Capitol rioter he led on a tour was simply taking a photo of a 'golden eagle sconce' light fixture"
https://www.businessinsider.com/republican-barry-loudermilk-january-6-tour-photo-golden-eagle-sconce-2022-6
TheRealNorth
(9,478 posts)That his best defense now is that he was a useful idiot that didn't know what they were doing.
Keep lying, and Noone will believe even that.
fightforfreedom
(4,913 posts)Did he watch a different video when he said he saw no wrong doing? Is he just stupid or is he a liar?
getagrip_already
(14,708 posts)We had to set it up well in advance through our rep's office (Jim Mcgovern). We had to use that office since we are in his district.
He did personally lead the tour, so that in itself, while unusual, isn't unheard of. Even he said it is almost always staff that leads the tours, but he likes to do them once in a while to help out.
It was like being lead by a history teacher.
We saw the house chambers (and he swiped his id to take a test vote) so we could see where the house meets. We saw the rotunda, and he even took us into the senate chamber and my kids got to sit at the senators desks.
That entire tour took about an hour. And he was very chatty or it would have quicker.
I don't know what we could have possibly done in tunnels and hallways for hours.
bottomofthehill
(8,329 posts)Works hard for his constituents and as a former staff member before being elected, he knows and understands the grunt work and is still willing to do it himself.