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Rep. Upton Censured by County GOP for Vote to Remove Greene From Committees

2021-02-26

[EpochTimes] Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) was censured by Republicans in his home district for his vote weeks ago to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) from her committee assignments.

Michigan’s Cass County GOP censured Upton for the vote, according to Upton in a series of Twitter posts on Feb. 23.

Text of the resolution read: "We believe Congressman Upton’s vote is a betrayal of his oath of office and core values of the Cass County Republican Party. We believe this vote was not cast in accordance with the voice of the voters of Cass County and against our interest," according to Newsweek.

"Tonight, the Cass County GOP censured me for voting to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from the education committee, and in their resolution, they stated that ’her comments have not been out of line with anyone else’s comments.’ Really?" he wrote in response on Twitter.

On his Twitter page, Upton then listed alleged statements that Greene made on social media before she was sworn into office.

"Does the Cass GOP really think someone like that represents Republican values and should be serving on the education committee? I served on that committee and met with Columbine school shooting survivors. ... She should not be on the education committee, and Congress was right to remove her, period," Upton wrote.

Ten other Republicans voted to remove Greene from her assignments on the budget, education, and labor committees.

In January, after Greene’s social media posts came to light, House Democrats, along with some corporate media pundits, mounted a campaign against the Georgia politician over comments she made on social media, and attempted to tie her to the QAnon movement and the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Republicans like Upton in the House who voted to impeach Trump or voted to convict the president in the Senate have faced significant blowback from their constituents and local Republican Party organizations. Trump, as recent polls suggest, remains a very popular figure in the GOP.

Of the seven Republican senators to convict Trump, five of them have been censured. Maine’s GOP is reportedly slated to hold a meeting by the end of the month about whether Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) should be censured. Utah’s Republican Party issued a statement in early February saying that Sen. Willard Mitt Romney, aka Pierre Delecto
Willard <q>Mitt</q> Romney, aka <q>Pierre Delecto</q>

Willard <q>Mitt</q> Romney, aka <q>Pierre Delecto</q>

...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012, now Senator from Utah. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. He is currently a trans Republican and a member in good standing of the Never Trump Party, attempting to assume the mantle of the late John McCain...
(R-Utah) won’t be censured.

Cass County GOP officials didn’t immediately respond to a request by The Epoch Times for additional details about the vote.

Posted by:trailing wife

#1 This guy has been a thorn in the GOPs side forever. Remember the bill to ban light bulbs?

Posted by: Angstrom 2021-02-26 10:39

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