Harvard’s Institute of Politics has removed @RepStefanik from its Senior Advisory Committee.
In a letter to other members of the committee, Dean of the Faculty of the Kennedy School Doug Elmendorf writes...
2/ “My request was not about political parties, political ideology, or her choice of candidate for president. Rather, in my assessment, Elise has made public assertions about voter fraud in November’s presidential election that have no basis in evidence,...
3/“... and she has made public statements about court actions related to the election that are incorrect. Moreover, these assertions and statements do not reflect policy disagreements but bear on the foundations of the electoral process..
4/“... through which this country’s leaders are chosen.
“I made this request to Elise mindful of her important contributions to the crucial mission of the Institute of Politics over a long period, beginning with her role as a student leader (she was in the class of 2006)...
5/“... and continuing to her mentoring students and strengthening the IOP’s programming in many ways. I know that we are grateful for her long and committed service.
“In my conversation with Elise, she declined to step aside, and I told her that I would therefore remove her...
6/“... from the IOP’s Senior Advisory Committee at this time.”
Removing an alum (@RepStefanik was Harvard class of 2006) not to mention a sitting congresswoman is no small thing for any university.
Here’s the response from @EliseStefanik in which she describes opposition to her spreading election lies — not to mention her votes to disenfranchise millions of Americans based on those lies, *after* the MAGA terrorist attack led to bloodshed — as being “woke.”
"On January 6, 2021 a violent mob attacked the United States Capitol to obstruct the process of our democracy and stop the counting of presidential electoral votes...
@Liz_Cheney 2/ "...This insurrection caused injury, death and destruction in the most sacred space in our Republic.
"Much more will become clear in coming days and weeks, but...
@Liz_Cheney 3/"...what we know now is enough. The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing....
In 2015 a prominent Republican said this of Trump:
"In the 1840’s the 'Know Nothings' emerged as a political movement, scapegoating Irish and German immigrants for the problems of the nation...
2/ "...They were obsessively anti-Catholic, so much so that when the Pope sent marble for the building of the Washington Monument, they smashed it to pieces and helped delay its construction for 35 years...
3/ "...These people built nothing, created nothing. They existed to cast blame and tear down certain institutions. To give outlet to anger. Donald Trump is the modern-day incarnation of the know-nothing movement."
Hice was re-elected on the same day on the same GA ballot using the same methods and standards. It would really prove his intellectual consistency on this issue if he were to resign and demand a new election.
.@BenSasse: "Today, the United States Capitol — the world’s greatest symbol of self-government — was ransacked while the leader of the free world cowered behind his keyboard — tweeting against his Vice President for fulfilling the duties of his oath to the Constitution."
2/ “...Lies have consequences. This violence was the inevitable and ugly outcome of the President’s addiction to constantly stoking division...
3/“...Americans are better than this: Americans aren’t nihilists. Americans aren’t arsonists. Americans aren’t French revolutionaries taking to the barricades...