Posted on 03/29/2021 9:21:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
House Democrats are attempting to overturn the twice recounted, state- certified results of a congressional election in Iowa, and state officials are condemning House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “power grab.”
Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate penned a letter to Speaker Pelosi asking that she stop the attempted steal of Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks’ (R-IA) seat, emphasizing that the votes were recounted not once, but twice, and were certified by the bipartisan election commission.
“Our state had the closest U.S. House race in the country, with Mariannette Miller-Meeks defeating Rita Hart. Following a recount in all 24 counties in the Second Congressional District, Miller-Meeks won by six votes. The general election and recounts were conducted in a bipartisan manner. There are 12 Republican county auditors and 12 Democratic county auditors in the Second District. Bipartisan teams of precinct election officials staffed the polling places and processed the absentee ballots. The recount in all 24 counties was bipartisan,” Pate wrote to Pelosi.
He added that Hart sidestepped the state’s process to contest election results, the judicial system, and instead chose a partisan route.
“Unfortunately, Rita Hart chose to bypass the nonpartisan Iowa process and take her challenge to the U.S. House of Representatives where her political party has the power to grant her a seat she did not win...Now, Rita Hart is asking you to ‘depart from Iowa law’ and give her an election victory she did not earn. I strongly urge you to reject any attempts to overturn the will of Iowa votes. Mariannette Miller-Meeks is the official U.S. Representative for Iowa’s Second District and is serving the district capably. Let her continue to do the job Iowans elected her to do.”
The House Administration Committee is currently considering the case brought by Hart to challenge the certified results. Pelosi has said that a possible scenario for a duly elected representative, Miller-Meeks, to be unseated certainly exists.
There are seven House Democrats on record as being opposed to voting to overturn the election.
Pappas (NH), Phillips (MN), Wild (PA), Gottheimer (NJ), Corrrea (CA), Kildee (MI) and Elissa Slotkin (MI).
Pelosi can only lose 3.
Waste of time. Pelosi is power mad.................
Pelosi can likely buy the handful of votes she needs. Some of them can be persuaded.
What are the issues to justify an overturning?
22 votes a Judge tossed out!
It was literally a margin of 6 votes, so I think they’re claiming that there were votes that were omitted improperly or something.
Its amazing that they are willing to do this after the high and mighty “how dare anyone consider questioning an election outcome?” stance from a couple months ago.
If you really believe that, the Democrat ultimately winning Iowa-2 is selling for 8 cents a share on Predicit. Predicit is notoriously left-wing in its predictions as well.
Max out a bet at 850.00 and you will win 9,775.00.
I don’t think that you will do that.
Pelosi is the evil witch member of the coup regime and she thinks she’s in charge now that they have a dementia patient as “president” and a VP who doesn’t know her ass from a hole in the ground. Pelosi calls the military, makes the rules, runs the post office , SCOTUS and generally “runs things” via a “earpiece” connected to regime honchos. She belongs in jail. The water board the power hungry witch.
Better yet, burn her at the stake.
A local Des Moines radio guy who is something of a political insider said Pelosi is arm-twisting and is one vote away from stealing the Congressional seat.
No thanks. I don’t gamble. I invest. There’s a big difference.
If you can’t put a rational value on something there’s no sense in putting money into it IMO. Otherwise you’re just guessing.
“ What are the issues to justify an overturning?”
An R unexpectedly overcame the cheating threshold
Because they control all information via their house media. Trump "tried to overturn a legal election", and the Iowa seat will be "votes were suppressed by white supremacist republicans".
850.00 on predicit wins you 10000.
Asking? ASKING?? Really? WHEN are we going to DEMAND?!
If Pelosi is insistent on this, than there is only one way to answer it. If and it is an if, the GOP obtains control of the House, they should do this same thing to ONE and only ONE House seat. That is the seat of Nancy Pelosi. They should refuse to seat her and recognize her opponent as the winner.
Pelosi is bad but Stacey Abrams is the most evil woman in America and while Pelosi is old, Abrams is the future of the Democrat Party.
From Orwell’s 1984:
The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power.
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
Power is not a means; it is an end. The object of power is power.
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