They were eliminated 10 years ago, but the desk House pages used to work at came in handy during the pro-Trump invasion of the Capitol this week.
Officials told us that the historic desk was used to block the rioters from getting in.
“The very desk and bench used by generations of pages were used to barricade the House doors,” said Audrey Scagnelli, a U.S. Capitol Page Alumni Association board member, whose name, like those of other past pages, is inscribed on it.
- We love trend polls, and our friends at the Frontier Center’s Ear to the Ground project sent us one that showed how depressed Republicans were after the election. The group tested Christmas card giving and found that many more Trump supporters did not send or receive cards this year. “Trump voters’ primary reason for not sending Christmas cards this year was a lack of motivation/being in the mood,” the group told us.
Frontier Center’s Ear to the Ground project
- Matt Lloyd, a longtime aide to Vice President Mike Pence, is joining Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman’s staff as deputy chief of staff and communications director. Recently, he also worked at the departments of State, Justice, and Health and Human Services.
- The ways to honor the late civil rights leader and Georgia Rep. John Lewis might have finally crossed the line. To encourage Peach State voters to the polls this week, “crop artists” drew his face and wrote “Vote” in a cleared 40-acre field of dirt.
