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2020-02-15 Home Front: Politix
Rashida Tlaib arrested protesting with airline workers
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat, was arrested at bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
Metro Airport Friday while joining a protest by airline workers.

Photos by a spokeswoman for the hospitality workers' union UNITE HERE showed Tlaib joining catering workers for Delta Air Lines, who were protesting for higher wages and better healthcare.

Tlaib was detained briefly and then released, according to the ABC affiliate for reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
A spokesperson for Tlaib could not be reached for comment.

Tlaib, 43, a staunch and often controversial liberal, is one of the four freshman House representatives know as "the Squad," a Democratic coalition of liberal women that also includes Reps. Ilhan Omar
...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She is apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side...
of Minnesota, Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez
Dem represntative from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details...
of New York, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.
Posted by Fred 2020-02-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Ratshita Tlame
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-02-15 00:14||   2020-02-15 00:14|| Front Page Top

#2 The Squat
Posted by Lex 2020-02-15 00:27||   2020-02-15 00:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Go away, vile pestilence
Posted by Lex 2020-02-15 00:38||   2020-02-15 00:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Palestinians & airlines
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-02-15 03:22||   2020-02-15 03:22|| Front Page Top

#5 A real protestor would lock herself with a bunch of other protestors and block an interstate highway during the morning rush hour.

Get with the program, Rashida!
Posted by Raj 2020-02-15 09:11||   2020-02-15 09:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Isn't being arrested for breaking the law in violation of House ethics rules?
Posted by Goober Tingle7365 2020-02-15 10:08||   2020-02-15 10:08|| Front Page Top

#7 they have ethics rules?
Posted by Frank G 2020-02-15 10:44||   2020-02-15 10:44|| Front Page Top

#8 I found the answer:

The Office of Congressional Ethics, established by the House of Representatives, is an independent, non-partisan entity charged with receiving and reviewing allegations of misconduct concerning House Members and staff and, when appropriate, referring matters to the Committee on Ethics. https://oce.house.gov/
Posted by Goober Tingle7365 2020-02-15 11:09||   2020-02-15 11:09|| Front Page Top

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