Posted on 01/12/2021 5:11:20 PM PST by Revel
Rep. John Katko, who represents the Syracuse area and New York’s 24th District, announced that he will vote to impeach President Donald Trump.
Katko is apparently the first Republican member of the House of Representatives to announce his support.
“To impeach a sitting president is a decision I do not take lightly,” Katko said in his statement.
He said that, as a former federal prosecutor, he approached this question by looking at the facts.
“The facts are this: last week, the U.S. Capitol was attacked by a mob intent on disrupting a Joint Session of Congress and preventing certification of the Electoral College results. Consequently, the U.S. Capitol Police were overrun… For the staff and police officers who were in the Capitol that day, this event will forever haunt them,” Katko said in his statement.
He said that he would vote to impeach Trump for inciting the attack on the Capitol.
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Republican, right.
He is about as Republican as I am gymnast. But, hey he is from New Yawk. Cannot expect a person with any values to be elected from that area
Yep.
At least you are 100% sure they are lying instead of only 98%
Never will I vote Republican again, not that it makes much difference at this point anyway. Either way the Repub. party is finished, they will never win another election. Time for a new party that is 100% for the constitution and truth and F anybody who isn’t.
Kiss you seat goodbye, idiot.
They are feeling their oats and the GOP is joining them instead of fighting them.
I am super negative about the future because at one time I expected the GOP to take the House in 2022 and restrict this nonsense.
But now, I honestly believe the GOP has abandoned their supporters, 80 million strong, and 15% likely will not vote for the GOP now, meaning they lose every close race.
Which means for the first time in my life I support a third party. A third party that can endorse quality conservatives and can run against RINOs. The ONLY way we take back the party is when RINO’s lose elections.
Now, the ONLY alternative to a third party is a massive primary effort in all 50 states to primary the Liz Cheney’s etc. But for that effort we would need national leadership and the RNC is part of the swamp.
The fact that someone might lose a Republican seat should not be the criteria of whether you support them. That is how we have Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham. We don’t dare vote them out because a Democrat might win the seat. In most cases, the Republican is only nominally a Republican because they know that no matter what they do as long as they are Republican, we will help them keep the seat.
The Republican Party really needs to vanish.
I think that there are probably old women here on FR who are not up to much travel or protesting, but we know how to pass information in our communities (without detection).
Katko will not win re-election if he runs again. He’s a typical “finger to the wind” Congressman.
I just called his DC office. I left my name and number. I let loose a stream of invective to pin his ears back. Told him to call me if he had the guts. Called McConnells office too.
10 Republicans voting to impeach:
Rep. Dan Newhouse (WA)
Rep. John Katko (NY)
Rep. Jamie Herrera Beutler (WA)
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (IL)
Rep. Fred Upton (MI)
Rep. Liz Cheney (WY)
Rep. Peter Meijer (MI)
Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (OH)
Rep. Tom Rice (SC)
Rep. David Valadao (CA)
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