Posted on 11/14/2014 5:17:42 AM PST by C19fan
Rep. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, who is expecting a baby in December, is being denied a request to vote by proxy in the House Democratic Caucus leadership and committee member elections next weekeven though her doctor advises she can't travel to Washington in the late stages of her pregnancy.
The Iraq War veteran, who lost both legs when her helicopter was shot down in 2004, made the request in a letter to fellow Democrats. Her letter was read during a closed-door Democratic Caucus meeting on Thursday. But objections were raised, and the request was denied, with opponents including Democratic Steering and Police Committee cochair Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
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The Democrat War on (Pregnant) disabled Women Veterans!
Yup. That's how it's done.
Unfortunately, the republicans never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
She should be discreetly approached by the Republicans over this. Though they don’t need to offer her much, anything is better than nothing with the Democrats. And caucusing with the Republicans would be another burn to them.
Importantly, her district has swung both Democrat and Republican in recent years, so it wouldn’t necessarily end her career.
She is a woman and suffering from a woman’s infirmity. She should resign if she can’t serve
“”Only if she changes her whole political outlook””
I haven’t forgotten her smarmy remark to the patriot from TX when she gave testimony in the hearing about being targeted by the IRS because her group was a conservative group. Her family business was visited by something like 5 different federal/state agencies and she said it was the first time in 25 years that they’d ever had anyone visit from any state or federal agency. Duckworth said she was “appalled that they had never been visited by OSHA before that.” She had nothing to base that on as there were no violations of any laws found in the visits....just grandstanding.
This witch disgusts me.
Republicans are afraid to ream her because of her “wounded vet” schtick.
What in the Sam Hill is a disabled vet doing in the D party? She must be suffering from PTSD or she suffered some undiagnosed brain injury when the chopper went down.
“At that point, sources say the request began to be discussed. But according to an aide, Duckworth’s request then became muddled with another made by Rep. Gwen Moore of Wisconsin to also be allowed to cast proxy votes next week because she will be out on Tuesday for a funeral.”
Bet they’d allow Gwen’s proxy vote if she were attending her own funeral!
Active Duty/Retiree/Vet ping.
Democratic Representave Duckworth is prego.
She asked to vote by proxy while she is delivering.
Pelosi denies her.
War on Vets, War on Women.
Never happen, this idiot showed up to a town hall wearing a flippin head scarf, showing kinship with muzzies.
Her over use of her disability is disgusting and she is everything a Vet should NOT be. As a point of fact, every Vet I know would never go around boasting about their time of service. She is so vile there are no words. Oh, and she was under investigation for her stint at with the VA and misuse of funds or some such thing. I can’t recall the details....
America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi! |
But they’re letting 3 who haven’t even won re election yet, for sure, to vote.
CRIMINALS!!!!
It’s temporary, butthead!!
In other words, a typical Democrat!!!
A pox on all of them.
Greetings AllAmericanGirl44:
IIRC, Tammi Duckworth disobeyed Orders. Tammi Duckresponsibility purposely deviated her assigned aircraft from the controlled airspace corridor for her mission sortie. Tammi took her non-combat aircraft and crew upon a sightseeing joy ride of Iraq before being shot down in hostile airspace. Duckworthless endangered not only her aircraft and crew, but those brave men assigned to extract her from the mess she created. Because of political correctness, Tammi never faced the Court Marshal she earned for demonstrating such inept judgement, untrustworthyness, and conduct unbecoming of an Officer.
One should note that Tammi is one of Madigan’s political punks, cut from the same self-centered cloth as F’n Kerry. Given Tammi’s hand is firmly upon the control stick of our Nation’s purse strings, even the democRats are very willing to risk “pregnancy discrimination” as an excuse to ignore her history (herstory?) of self-aggrandizing follies.
Cheers,
OLA
Thankfully you are not leadership, because that's a really silly idea...
Giving her the ability to bash GOP polices from the House floor and vote against every piece of GOP legislation as a Republican for a single vote...
Thank you OLA, I wonder how it is that I didn’t know that
information?!
I am disgusted that she represents my fine district.
Then again, what with how ‘they’ carved us up and tossed
in folks from the city, I can barely conceive how she
was ever elected.
If I were to say what I think of Madigan, I’d be tossed
off this board :(
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