US Representative Nancy Mace, R-Charleston, said that controversial Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene should not have been stripped of her duties on the House committee by Democrats on Thursday night, even after the Georgian politician continued to defend extremist views.
The Democratic-controlled House vote was largely partisan on February 4 and was a bold move to punish the Georgia Republican for comments she made on social media and in person.
Greene was called in this week for comments on how to claim that some mass shootings are staged, that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated by government forces and that a Jewish cabal set off a forest fire with a space laser beam.
Mace, who has spoken out publicly against conspiracy theories in the Republican Party, defended Greene and said that Democrats expelling the policy from its committee assignments was an “unprecedented” move in an emailed statement.
“A party depriving a member of another party of its committee assignments for comments made before taking office has never been made before,” said Mace. “Like most Americans, I am tired of this division. I’m tired of talking about the loudest voices in the room. “
In his statement, Mace also called on Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to take action against members of her party, such as US Representative Maxine Waters of California and US Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota for previous statements they made as elected officials. .
Mace has not gotten along with Greene since the two freshman Republican congressmen arrived in Washington.
Axios reported last month that the two got into a heated discussion in a chain of text with all the freshman members of the Republican Party after the January 6 Capitol riots, which were sparked by unfounded claims that the presidential election that led to Donald Trump’s defeat was fraudulent.
Greene is well known for her support for the QAnon conspiracy theory, which claims that Trump is secretly fighting a “deep-state” pedophile ring and also alleged unproven electoral fraud that led to his loss.
Mace called her in the texting segment.
“I am disgusted with what you and other Q conspiracy theorists did last week in the chamber after all the violence,” Mace reportedly sent Greene.
Still, Mace joined all the other Republican Party members of the South Carolina delegation in the vote to keep Greene in his committee assignments.
US Representative Jim Clyburn, D-Columbia, voted in favor of removing Greene from office. The Whip of the House majority said the change was necessary because the Republican Party refused to punish the Congresswoman.
“Today the House has acted because the Republican leadership has refused to reject violent and hateful rhetoric,” tweeted Clyburn. “The privilege of nominating committees cannot be granted to those who launch conspiracy theories and threaten colleagues.”
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