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brooklynite

(96,882 posts)
Thu Dec 7, 2023, 01:15 PM Dec 2023

Democratic votes to Censure Jamaal Bowman

Yes Votes
Johanna Hayes (CT)
Chris Pappas (NH)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA)

Present
Chrissy Houlihan (PA)
Glen Ivey (MD)
Deborah Ross (NC)
Susan Wild (PA)

Not Voting
Emanuel Cleaver (MO)
Angie Craig (MN)
Donald Davis (NC)
Mark DeSaulnier (CA)
Veronica Escobar (TX)
Lizzie Fletcher (TX)
Sylvia Garcia (TX)
Robert Garcia (CA)
Stephen Horsford (NV)
Sheila Jackson Lee (TX)
Sara Jacobs (CA)
Susie Lee (NV)
Zoe Lofgren (CA)
Dean Phillips (MN)
Katie Porter (CA)
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Democratic votes to Censure Jamaal Bowman (Original Post) brooklynite Dec 2023 OP
I take it, it passed. sinkingfeeling Dec 2023 #1
214-191 brooklynite Dec 2023 #2
He did a dumb thing. Climate Crusader Dec 2023 #3
100% this! WA-03 Democrat Dec 2023 #6
That only goes so far ...... LenaBaby61 Dec 2023 #11
Well I guess you told me. Climate Crusader Dec 2023 #13
Did they ever censure that guy with the gold bars and cash? leftstreet Dec 2023 #4
That would be the responsibility of the Senate MichMan Dec 2023 #5
Bad people using any little thing to hurt their political opponents SunImp Dec 2023 #7
No. Climate Crusader Dec 2023 #8
You don't censure someone over an honest mistake like this. W_HAMILTON Dec 2023 #12
roughly 1/3 of the congress is in the building where he pulled the alarm. bottomofthehill Dec 2023 #10
Well said. Climate Crusader Dec 2023 #14
So it still would have passed, eh? dpibel Dec 2023 #9

Climate Crusader

(169 posts)
3. He did a dumb thing.
Thu Dec 7, 2023, 01:23 PM
Dec 2023

Take the punishment. Apologize. Move on. Definitely a good look to have the country see that we own up to mistakes.

WA-03 Democrat

(3,365 posts)
6. 100% this!
Thu Dec 7, 2023, 01:42 PM
Dec 2023

He made a mistake like we all do from time to time. We are the adults. petty people cannot own their mistakes.

LenaBaby61

(6,991 posts)
11. That only goes so far ......
Thu Dec 7, 2023, 03:15 PM
Dec 2023

Because you still have a majority of tRumpthuglicans who STILL want to destroy this country and Dems, because they still support tRaitor tRump and want him to FINISH destroying this country, the man who only wants to become a dictator the first day back in office I'm so sick of these GQP US Taliban fuckers living by one rule, which are NO rules, and who hate our military/intelligence agencies, police and who support putin--a murderous, crazy dictator thug and their own wannabe murderous dictator thug tRump, and they get away with it. The mostly greedy for ad dollars, views & clicks mostly corporate media lets the GQP get away with murder, almost literally, and most still go after Pres. Biden, saying that he's "too old, to be president, and that everybody hates Kamala Harris, especially Dems" and most don't give ANY credit to him for cleaning up the fucking train-wreck dumped in his lap by tRaitor tRump, who tried his level best to steal the 2020 General Election, and look at him. He goes around threatening judges, their families, is pathological, racist, mentally declining by the week, yet ...... Yes, his time of reckoning after 77 years is HERE, but look at the complete hell he's put this country/world through, because his bestie and dog-walker putin wants to turn the USA into the USSA. tRump only wants money and tot stay out of jail, he doesn't care about this country, and my friend told me that his mail-order bride, tramp, thot wife Malaria said that she's campaigning for him? She needs to take her racist ass back over to Slovenia. Oh Lord, and Andrea Mitchell had nerve to say that "Biden's too old to be president." tRump's not too old, right? When is her old washed-up, corporate media, reich-winged shill behind whose WELL past her sell date retire?

leftstreet

(41,243 posts)
4. Did they ever censure that guy with the gold bars and cash?
Thu Dec 7, 2023, 01:23 PM
Dec 2023

JFC does Congress ever do any actual work for the people?

SunImp

(2,720 posts)
7. Bad people using any little thing to hurt their political opponents
Thu Dec 7, 2023, 01:52 PM
Dec 2023

Rep Jamal did a dumb thing, but it seems like an honest mistake. If Bowman really ment to disrupt congress he would have pulled the fire alarm in the ACTUAL building the votes were being held. Only the people with an axe to grind against him will be happy with this.

Climate Crusader

(169 posts)
8. No.
Thu Dec 7, 2023, 01:59 PM
Dec 2023

Just because people I disagree with say it's wrong, doesn't make it right.

The other group tries to call wrong right. Take your lumps. Learn from a mistake and get back in the fight.

W_HAMILTON

(10,434 posts)
12. You don't censure someone over an honest mistake like this.
Thu Dec 7, 2023, 05:00 PM
Dec 2023

It's ridiculous, but given these Republicans and how censure has been wielded in recent years, it's pretty much become a meaningless gesture at this point, so it's to be expected from deplorable Republicans that have no legislative accomplishments, so they put up political posturing votes -- I think they call it "virtue signaling?" -- because they have nothing else.

bottomofthehill

(9,412 posts)
10. roughly 1/3 of the congress is in the building where he pulled the alarm.
Thu Dec 7, 2023, 02:04 PM
Dec 2023

He did it, there are pictures and video, he ran past a bunch of police officers without telling any of them about his "mistake". Simple, he fucked up. Take the punishment, he earned it. Move on, be a better Member of Congress and person, work hard and get re-elected, that's redemption.

Climate Crusader

(169 posts)
14. Well said.
Thu Dec 7, 2023, 07:11 PM
Dec 2023

At a time when the country desperately needs adults, childish pranks- illegal pranks- are the last thing we need.

dpibel

(4,009 posts)
9. So it still would have passed, eh?
Thu Dec 7, 2023, 02:01 PM
Dec 2023

I'm counting 22 votes there.

If they'd all voted no, the measure still would have passed.

So what is the point of this post?

Dems in disarray?

List o' Quislings to fight about?

Somehow I am put in mind of the indispensable words of Charles Pierce: "That shit won't stir itself."

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