范·琼斯

2023年4月9日

下载应用程序的电子邮件地址,点击“注册”,你同意收到内部营销电子邮件以及其他合作伙伴提供和接受我们的服务条款和隐私政策。CNN政治评论员范·琼斯上周敦促田纳西州共和党州众议员杰里米百在党内决定驱逐两名黑人民主党州议员枪改革地板抗议。琼斯尖锐地说,共和党人一直“不合理”的情况。百的采访期间,他作为国家主席的众议院共和党党团会议,琼斯质疑为什么共和党议员要求国务院众议员贾斯汀·琼斯和贾斯汀·皮尔森坚持身体的规则,然后继续把他们从他们选出的位置。“如果你说你想要这个立法机构被尊重,你为什么不遵循规则和使用的工具,你有吗?”Jones asked Faison during the television exchange. "You want them to not be extreme, but you're being extreme. Why is that?" Faison said he felt as though House Republicans followed the proper protocol. "We actually are following the rules and we gave them ample chance," he said. "We established what was taking place on Monday. There was due process. It is not just up to me." Jones then cut in and asked Faison why Republicans didn't initiate an ethics process for the two Democrats. "I'm just trying to understand — why did you not go to the Ethics Committee and do the things that are always done in that body? You have not done this to anybody except for two people in 200 years," he said. "You can't tell me that there have not been people who have also been disruptive. You've had people have that peed on chairs that did not get expelled." "I don't understand why you skipped the Ethics Committee if you want respect, and if you want for people to be reasonable, why are you being so unreasonable and why are you skipping steps? You're not acting the way you want the young people to act," he continued. Faison disputed the veracity of the peeing incident — even as Politico reporter Natalie Allison recently wrote that it was "generally accepted" that it occurred — but he indicated that the decision to oust the two lawmakers was the prevailing sentiment among the GOP caucus. "What you need to understand is this is a body of people who decide cooperatively what we're going to do moving forward," Faison said. "This body spoke many times. I brought our caucus together several times since last Thursday to ask the body what we as a group wanted to do." "The overwhelming majority, the heartbeat of this caucus, says, 'Not on this House floor. Not this way,'" he added. Faison then stated that Republicans, who control 75 out of the 99 seats in the state House of Representatives, didn't want to go through an ethics process or censure the Democratic lawmakers. In late March, Jones and Pearson took to the House floor and used bullhorns to rally gun reform advocates at the state Capitol who were pushing for action after the shooting deaths of six people — including three children — at the Covenant School in Nashville. State Rep. Gloria Johnson, a white lawmaker who also joined the gun reform protest, was not expelled by House Republicans and remarked last week that "it's pretty clear" why she was spared. "I'm a 60-year-old white woman, and they are two young Black men. In listening to the questions and the way they were questioned and the way they were talked to, I was talked down to as a woman, mansplained to, but it was completely different from the questioning that they got," she said. Sign up for notifications from Insider! Stay up to date with what you want to know. Subscribe to push notifications