Rep. Ilhan Omar responded to the Alabama Republican Party passing a resolution that called for Congress to expel her for engaging “in rhetoric that explicitly runs counter to American values and patriotism.”
Tweeting from her personal account on Tuesday, the Minnesota Democrat said, “I was elected with 78% of the vote by the people of Minnesota’s 5th District, not the Alabama Republican Party.”
She then took a jab at state GOP voters for nominating Roy Moore in the Senate special election in 2017, “If you want to clean up politics, maybe don’t nominate an accused child molester as your Senate candidate?”
Moore was accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct, with some of them being under underage at the time, during the race. Along with his multiple controversial stances, Moore lost the election to Democrat Doug Jones.
Sorry, @ALGOPHQ, but this is a representative democracy.
I was elected with 78% of the vote by the people of Minnesota’s 5th District, not the Alabama Republican Party.
If you want to clean up politics, maybe don’t nominate an accused child molester as your Senate candidate? https://t.co/r9NvsZKRUw
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) August 27, 2019
In their resolution that was adopted during their summer meeting in Auburn this past weekend, the Alabama Republican Party said Omar needs to be expelled for “falsely accusing U.S. armed forces of committing war crimes while on mission to liberate her home country of Somalia,” for dismissing “the 9/11 terror attacks” and sympathizing “with a convicted terrorist” by advocating for “sentencing leniency
