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GOP Rep. Mocks Party's Hypocrisy Over Texas Gerrymandering Chaos
In a brutal tweet post on Wednesday, one Republican member of Congress has called out his own party's hypocrisy in blasting Texas Democrats for leaving their state.
Dozens of Democrats left Texason Monday to deny Texas Republicans a quorum to vote on a newly gerrymandered map that would add five Republican-leaning seats to the House of Representatives.
But where a lot of Republicans saw opportunity, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) saw hypocrisy — especially since House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) suddenly canceled House votes last month and sent lawmakers home early for five weeks to avoid a vote on releasing files connected to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a former friend of President Donald Trump.
Despite Johnson's very public efforts to sweep the scandal under the rug, Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) have introduced a bipartisan resolution calling for the release of the files.
After Republicans criticized Texas Democrats who left their state to prevent the passage of a gerrymandered map, Massie apparently wondered why they were OK with lawmakers ditching Washington, D.C., to avoid a vote on a topic Trump has tried to downplay.
Massie made his thoughts known on social media with a tweet that compared 'Democrats leaving Texas to protect their district' to 'Republicans leaving D.C. to protect the Epstein files,' with Johnson's head superimposed over the image of a driver in a car meant to represent Republicans.
Some people saw Massie's post as a sign that he was just a D-D-Democrat in Republican clothes.
But Massie pointed out just how conservative he is in his response.
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