Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick was one of 11 members of his party to vote Thursday evening to remove a congresswoman from her committee assignments.
Fitzpatrick, of Middletown Township, and 10 other Republicans voted to remove Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, from the education and budget committees.. A total of 219 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives voted to remove Greene, a freshman, from the committees.
Greene has shared views that deadly mass school shootings were “false flag” attacks, accosted a teenage survivor of one deadly shooting on the streets, suggested that a massive California wildfire was started by a nonexistent laser in space that was controlled by a Jewish banking family, claimed there was an “Islamic invasion of our government,” supported conspiracy theories related to the September 11, 2001 attacks, and supported the violent QAnon conspiracy that believes prominent Democrats and Republicans who have spoken against former President Donald Trump eat children and are involved in Satanism. Greene has denied supporting QAnon despite her previous statements of approval and tried to walk back some other of her actions.
Controversy over Greene, who easily won election last November, has divided the Republican party in the wake of Trump’s loss and the recent attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Fitzpatrick voted last fall to condemn the outlandish QAnon conspiracy that was mainstreamed by some prominent Trump supporters.
“QAnon and the ideas it promotes are fringe theories that are dangerous to our society. I will always condemn any group on the right or left that is fueled by hate, seeks to undermine our democratic institutions, or commits acts of violence. These kinds of views have no place in our political discourse, and I was happy to see the House overwhelmingly vote to condemn QAnon,” Fitzpatrick said at the time.
This week, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee targeted Fitzpatrick and other Republicans in key districts with an ad attempting to link them to the QAnon movement.
“QAnon. A conspiracy theory born online took over the Republican Party. Sent followers to Congress. And, with Donald Trump, incited a mob that took over the Capitol, and murdered a cop,” the narrator said in the ad. “Then, Republicans like Brian Fitzpatrick voted to protect Trump, letting the QAnon mob win.”
The ad references Fitzpatrick’s vote against the second impeachment of Trump.
Despite Fitzpatrick previously condemning the QAnon conspiracy theory, Democrats believe it is an issue that will play well in the moderate First Congressional District.
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