FirebugBowman
...sleazy Dem politician and educator, U.S. representative for New York's safe 16th congressional district since 2021. On September 30, 2023, while House Dems were desperately attempting to delay a vote that avoided shutting the government down so they could blame it on the Pubs, Bowman pulled a fire alarm in the Cannon House Office Building, causing the building to be evacuated. Bowman told reporters he thought it was a doorknob or something. Capitol Police released a statement saying they were investigating the fire alarm incident, and maybe a few rubes somewhere expected something to come of it. Republicans introduced a motion to expel Bowman from the House but that evaporated too. Bowman issued a statement saying they were Nazis. Bowman is a member of The Squad, a faction of like-minded subversives...
"accidentally" activated a fire alarm and forced the evacuation of a House office building last month, the far-left politician hastily removed two emergency exit signs from nearby doors, footage released Thursday revealed.
The 47-year-old Bronx and Westchester Democrat then made his way to the alarm on the nearby wall and yanked it before turning on his heel and walking away — still holding one of the signs — rather than trying to go out through the door as he initially claimed.
The video, made public hours after Bowman pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of falsely pulling a fire alarm, disproves his version of the Sept. 30 debacle.
"I was trying to get to a door. I thought the alarm would open the door, and I pulled the fire alarm to open the door by accident," Bowman said at the time.
"I was just trying to get to my vote and the door that’s usually open wasn’t open, it was closed."
But the footage shows the opposite of Bowman’s version of events. As National Review Online editor Philip Klein put it: "He didn’t pull the fire alarm to open the door; he tried to open the door to sound the fire alarm."
Many politicians, staffers, and news hounds who frequent the Cannon Office Building were puzzled by Bowman’s initial explanation and pointed out that the door he was trying to get through was a clearly marked emergency exit.
"Emergency Exit Only!" the signs taken down by Bowman read. "Push until alarm sounds (3 seconds). Door will unlock in 30 seconds."
Critics were quick to mock Bowman over the new video, with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) chiding on X: "This is what lawyers would call ’intent.'"