Marjorie Taylor Greene isn't welcome in Connecticut

[George II]

Op-Ed from yesterday's Hartford Courant regarding Greene's visit to an obscure corner of Connecticut yesterday. Plainfield is in a sparsely populated area about 3 miles from the Rhode Island border.

Edited to reduce the excerpt to 4 paragraphs, please visit the link for them, they're good, too.

https://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-marjorie-taylor-greene-not-welcome-connecticut-20211023-rkkhdbbwbjc4hgshaf53nlu43u-story.html

The Quinebaug Citizen Alliance in Plainfield invited Marjorie Taylor Greene, who supported the conspiracy theory that the Sandy Hook School shooting was a staged event, to speak in Connecticut on Saturday. The alliance is holding a “family friendly event” titled the “America First Rally” on the property of K & H Construction in Plainfield.

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You would be hard-pressed to find a person in Connecticut who doesn’t remember the horror of Dec. 14, 2012. It was the day we all imagined what it would be like to stand in a room, waiting to know if our beloved child would be coming home or was killed in a barrage of bullets. We sent our children off to school, waving goodbye at the bus stop or the student drop-off, thinking about the day’s meetings, the chores, sports practice and dance lessons, only to later rush into our school parking lots to hug teachers and administrators as we held tight to our children and realized we didn’t recognize the world anymore.

Twenty-six families (of adults and children) did more than imagine the feeling. They lived it. Those families are embedded in the hearts of Connecticut’s people. We held vigils and filled sacred spaces to mourn and grieve. Board of education meetings in the following weeks held discussions about school safety, active shooter drills and new security systems. Budgets were adjusted to add police officers and security guards. Every child in school today is trained to move furniture against doors and hide in corners and closets.

Marjorie Taylor Greene used the deaths of those children and the children of Parkland to build her celebrity name, which later got her elected to Congress as an anti-establishment Republican. There are many words I would use to describe such a person. U.S. Representative should not be among them.

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(Note: the entire column is only six paragraphs so to maintain continuity all are included.)

According to the Hartford Courant, "After we publish, the rights revert back to you, and you may publish anywhere you like" so including the entire column is not considered a copyright infringement.

https://www.courant.com/opinion/thc-oped-guidelines-story.html

[sheshe2]

1. A "family friendly event" titled the "America First Rally"?

No words.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Great editorial

[NurseJackie]

21. I liked this part:

I liked this part:

Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, was stripped of her committee assignments in a February 2021 vote because she supported the conspiracy theory that school shootings in Sandy Hook and Parkland, Florida, were staged events to promote gun control. The action to strip Greene of her assignments was supported by Democrats and Republicans.

She deserves NOTHING!!

[trusty elf]

3. ...

[fwvinson]

7. My brother just died, today. He was a good man.

But, a bitch like her lives. Sad

[Habibi]

9. I'm so sorry.

[calimary]

10. Aw damn. I'm so sorry you're going through that, fwvinson.

All my sympathy. They say the good die young. If true, it’d mean we’ll be stuck with her for WAY too long into the future.

I’m so sorry.




And YES, DEFINITELY please find a viable opposing candidate (to her and/or other republi-CONS up for re-election), and contribute if you can! Even a little bit can make a big difference.

[MustLoveBeagles]

12. I'm sorry

Life isn't fair sometimes

[Evolve Dammit]

4. Vile, vapid and dangerous. Have more pie honey.

[LoisB]

5. She should not be welcome anywhere.

[niyad]

6. She is not welcome in civilized society.

[Mary in S. Carolina]

8. She is a pig. End of Story

[North Shore Chicago]

20. Actually

Pigs are sentient creatures, capable of love and empathy. Does MTG sound like she has any of those qualities?

[Mary in S. Carolina]

26. I stand corrected

[AndyS]

11. There is a special place in the lowest level of hell for conspiracy theorists who promote

these hateful tales of intrigue because someone wants to take their guns away.

I watched Sandy Hook happen on MSNB and CNN with a three year old grand child in my lap and two elementary school grandchildren in school not far away.

The last five minutes of those children's lives haunts me to this day. The deafening sound of gunfire in a classroom, crying and calling for mommy and daddy, looking to teacher to protect them when teacher is already dead. Five minutes too terrifying to conceive of yet they spent the last seconds of their lives that way.

I am not a violent man.

I can make exceptions . . .

[George II]

24. It was a horrible day. I was on my way home from eastern MA and listened to the entire story....

...unfolding on the radio.

At first it seemed like a minor isolated incident. Then as the police began releasing more and more information it got worse and worse.

By the time I got home around noon the full magnitude of it was known. A horrible day (and week)

[MustLoveBeagles]

13. She shouldn't be welcome anywhere

[ShazzieB]

14. When is this so-called rally scheduled to take place?

If it's in the article somewhere, I'm not seeing it, sorry.

I'm hoping it's not scheduled for December 14, but something tells me I shouldn't hold my breath.

EDITED TO ADD: Oh, Wait. It sounds like the rally was "yesterday." But this was published on Saturday, so that would mean it happened on Friday, if I'm understanding correctly. UGH.

[George II]

16. It was Saturday.

[struggle4progress]

15. "We must stop Biden and the shape-shifting body-snatching alien lizard people

from using their Jewish Space Lasers to force us to wear masks injected with those vaccine microchips!"

[Blue Owl]

17. She's a raging, roided-up menace

Keep her away for your own good!

[malletgirl02]

18. Why is Greene traveling around?

If she is outside Washington DC, she should be in her own district helping her constituents.

[smirkymonkey]

19. Has she done ANYTHING for her constituents?

I don't think so. She is nothing but a professional shit-stirrer and attention whore. This woman deserves to be smacked down so hard in her next election that it will break every bone in her body. May she then slither back to the sewer from where she came.

[George II]

23. That's correct. Representatives get extended weekends and recesses of several weeks at a time....

....not to flit around the country but to spend that time in their districts meeting with constituents and tending to their needs.

Unfortunately now there are too many, Representatives and Senators, who don't understand this and ignore their constituents but seem to care more about people in other districts and states.

[struggle4progress]

25. Old folks back home aren't sparing their dimes so she's on the road

headed for the big rock-candy mountains

[George II]

22. Follow up: the author of the Op-Ed has also written a "Letter to the Editor" of The Day....

...a southeastern Connecticut local newspaper.

Here's her letter (very similar to the Op-Ed):

The Quinebaug Citizen’s Alliance in Plainfield has invited Marjorie Taylor Greene, who called the Sandy Hook Shooting a staged event to promote gun control, to speak in Connecticut. ("Marjorie Taylor Greene to visit Connecticut," Oct. 14). The event, created by Joe Sangermano, will be held at his company, K & H Construction. Greene was stripped of her committee assignments, by Republicans and Democrats, in February 2021 because she lied and promoted misinformation.

Connecticut honors and respects the grief of the Sandy Hook families. Marjorie Taylor Greene used the deaths of those children to build her celebrity name. There are words I would use to describe her, but U.S. Representative is not one of them.

Protest, email, comment on the FB event, boycott K & H Construction and call for Plainfield’s leadership to condemn Greene.

Donate to candidates running against Greene: Democrats Marcus Flowers, Lateefah Conner, Wendy Davis and Republican Jennifer Strahan. Support those who recognize Greene’s misinformation and lies as a danger to our democracy and honor the Sandy Hook victims. In the end, this is a decision for Sangermano. Does he stand with the victims of Sandy Hook, or does he stand with the liar who used them for self-promotion and political gain?