Actually, it doesn't matter.
Both the House Republican caucus in Tennessee and Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas qualify.
First, the House Republican caucus in Tennessee -
From BBC:
Lawmakers expelled: What to know about the 'Tennessee Three'
Tennessee's House of Representatives has expelled two Democratic lawmakers for leading gun control demonstrations from the House floor.
Republicans accused three Democratic representatives of bringing "disorder and dishonour to the House".
Expelling lawmakers from their elected positions is an exceptionally rare move in state legislatures.
Thursday's votes made the expulsions even more controversial when House Republicans chose to expel two black representatives but not the third Democrat, a white woman.
BBC has a pic of the behavior that so bothered the TN House GOP -
I wonder what the two who were expelled have in common, other than being Democrats? (That's a rhetorical question.)
If only they resembled the TN House GOP member as seen in this group photo -
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| OK, this isn't really a group photo of the TN House GOP caucus. Though it could be. There's a certain similarity in pigmentation and susceptibility to an increase in temperature. Actually, this pic is from the National Weather Service. |
Still, as bad as the GOP caucus in the TN House was, Governor Greg Abbott of Texas may have been worse. His response upon seeing the public lynching in TN was "hold my beer."
From the Austin American-Statesman -
Gov. Greg Abbott announces he will push to pardon Daniel Perry who was convicted of murder
Less than 24 hours after a jury in Austin found Daniel Perry guilty of shooting to death a protester, Gov. Greg Abbott announced on social media Saturday that he would pardon the convicted killer as soon as a request "hits my desk."
The unprecedented effort, which Abbott announced to his 1 million followers on Twitter, came as Abbott faced growing calls from national conservative figures such as Fox News host Tucker Carlson and Kyle Rittenhouse, who was acquitted in the shooting deaths of two Wisconsin protesters in 2020, to act to urgently undo the conviction.
Using his position to aid and abet murder?
Worse.
