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GOP senator disinvited to Republican event over vote against Trump's emergency declaration
The Hill ^ | 18 Mar 19 | ZACK BUDRYK

Posted on 03/19/2019 10:14:18 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

A Missouri county GOP committee disinvited Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) to a dinner event next month, citing his recent vote against President Trump’s emergency declaration to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Blunt joined 11 Senate Republicans, and all Democrats, in voting to block the declaration, prompting the Christian County Republican Central Committee to rescind his invitation to the local GOP’s Lincoln/Trump Day Dinner, scheduled for April 6 in Ozark.

“I am so disappointed in you now that I can hardly speak,” Wanda Martens, the party committee’s events chairwoman, wrote in an email to Blunt’s office obtained by The Kansas City Star. “Why could you not support my president in the emergency declaration? President Trump tried every available means to work the Senate to resolve the border issue and build the much needed wall. He is well within his presidential powers to do this.”

Blunt's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Blunt, the fourth-ranking Republican in the Senate, was the only member of GOP leadership to vote for the resolution of disapproval that would block Trump's emergency declaration. The president vetoed the resolution Friday.

The Missouri Republican cited the separation of powers to justify his vote in a radio interview last week.

“The last power really left to Congress is the power to control appropriations, the power of the purse, which anybody’s ever looked at the constitution has heard that phrase over and over again," he told KCMO. “And I think it’s an important phrase.”

Blunt has also warned a future Democratic president could take advantage of the precedent set by the national emergency declaration and take action on issues such as gun control or environmental regulations.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: 2020election; aliens; amnesty; amnestypimps; blunt; buildthefence; buildthewall; cheaplaborexpress; daca; dreamact; dreamers; election2020; gopestablishment; illegals; missouri; nationalemergency; poeticjustice; rino; royblunt; tds
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1 posted on 03/19/2019 10:14:18 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Ha ha!!


2 posted on 03/19/2019 10:15:24 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Bush League Republicans MUST become extinct before the Republic does.


3 posted on 03/19/2019 10:15:44 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Good. We need to see more actions like this!!!


4 posted on 03/19/2019 10:16:06 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Blunt comes up for re-election in 2022. Currently, 69 years old. I don’t think he intends to run.


5 posted on 03/19/2019 10:19:13 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

If a Republican doesn’t believe in American citizens voting, them they are of no use at all.


6 posted on 03/19/2019 10:19:40 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Blunt has also warned a future Democratic president could take advantage of the precedent set by the national emergency declaration and take action on issues such as gun control or environmental regulations.

Oh come on, that's a straw argument. Democrats take advantage without needing precedent. Ever hear of Obama and his pen? Nix Blunt, take him down a notch and stop him from siding with Democrats against our Republican president. Needs a reminder as to who put Blunt in office, it wasn't Democrats.

7 posted on 03/19/2019 10:21:21 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

He should be disinvited to his senate seat next election.


8 posted on 03/19/2019 10:21:37 PM PDT by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Sounds good to me, these anti-American RINOS, love illegal aliens and "cheap labor", and despise America and American citizens.

They don't care about our safety and security, they don't care about securing America and its borders, the only thing they care about is protecting their power and their money.

9 posted on 03/19/2019 10:28:38 PM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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To: Cementjungle

Yes, excellent.


10 posted on 03/19/2019 10:29:46 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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[ They don’t care about our safety and security, they don’t care about securing America and its borders, the only thing they care about is protecting their power and their money. ]

Just as long as they get their Uniparty check today, they’re all good. They couldn’t care about the rest of us. They are insulated from the real world.


11 posted on 03/19/2019 10:31:21 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: pepsionice
You know he's beholden to Agribusiness — POET, Bayer, ADM, Monsanto, Tysons, and Smithfield. Need those little brown people.
 
12 posted on 03/19/2019 10:31:54 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: Jmouse007

Folks in Missouri will keep it hot for the piece of crap. I grew up there and we don’t like azzholes who go Macain on US. Blunt better stay in DC.


13 posted on 03/19/2019 10:34:12 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought))
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Funny that Blunt is so concerned about precedent, instead of the fact that America is being invaded by criminal illegal aliens, while Congress sits on their thumbs.
14 posted on 03/19/2019 10:37:29 PM PDT by TXSearcher (Interesting times we live in...........)
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Precedent such as Dred Scott versus Sandford? How about Obergefell versus Hodges?

Those who put evil precedent above Constitutional law are against the Constitution.


15 posted on 03/19/2019 10:42:55 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

GOOD !


16 posted on 03/19/2019 10:55:08 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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F Blunt , what a douche . Primary his ass


17 posted on 03/19/2019 10:56:07 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Reno89519

Blunt”s disinvitation is fantastic and should apply to all the open border/globalist RINOs.

actually they should all be tarred and feathered for treason against the United States Constitution


18 posted on 03/19/2019 10:56:37 PM PDT by A strike (Import third world become third world)
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To: pepsionice

Senatorial power is the sweetest. It takes a strong will to walk away from it.


19 posted on 03/19/2019 11:01:47 PM PDT by BradyLS (ODO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

You reap what you sow.


20 posted on 03/19/2019 11:02:15 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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