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Home Front: Politix
The Payoff - Pelosi taps D.C. National Guard chief as top House security official
2021-03-28
[Politico] Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tapped the head of Washington, D.C.,’s National Guard, Maj. Gen. William Razor Wire Walker, as the House’s new top security official.

Walker, a 39-year military veteran, will become the House’s permanent sergeant-at-arms, Pelosi announced Friday. He succeeds Timothy Blodgett, who took over the post temporarily in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.

The previous permanent sergeant-at-arms, Paul Irving, was pushed out of the job after Jan. 6, amid recriminations over the security failures that allowed a mob of thousands of Donald Trump's supporters to occupy the Capitol and delay Congress’ certification of the 2020 election results.

"His historic appointment as the first Black American to serve as Sergeant-at-Arms is an important step forward for this institution and our nation," Pelosi said in a statement. The California Democrat also noted that Walker had a long career as a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  Is this legal? Military people have no knowledge of penal code or civil code. He is strictly military.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589   2021-03-28 20:49  

#3  Thousands of unarmed supporters (if that were so).

"So, he was appointed because of the color if his skin?"

The sole qualifier. Perhaps a "tie-breaker". /sarc
Posted by: Clem   2021-03-28 15:22  

#2  His historic appointment as the first Black American to serve as Sergeant-at-Arms...

So, he was appointed because of the color if his skin?

And I doubt there were thousands of Trump supporters. If there were thousands as rabid as Nancy wants us to believe - her security would have been overwhelmed in the first few seconds.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2021-03-28 14:32  

#1  Pelosi and Cocaine Mitch 'woking' together:

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday he has "requested and received" the resignation of Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger.

Just a guess, but perhaps Mike Stenger didn't...play along.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-03-28 06:47  

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