Another in an ongoing series.
Dear Senator;
I am a resident of Pennsylvania and a constituent of yours and I'd like you to answer a question or two.
I'd like to ask you about what occurred immediately before US Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from Secretary Kristi Noem's press conference.
The AP reported:
Video shows a Secret Service agent on Noem’s security detail grabbing the California senator by his jacket and shoving him from the room as he tried to speak up during the DHS secretary’s event. Padilla interrupted the news conference after Noem delivered a particularly pointed line, saying federal authorities were not going away but planned to stay and increase operations to “liberate” the city from its “socialist” leadership.
Time has a little more:
The confrontation came shortly after Noem made a forceful declaration of the federal government's intentions in the city. “We are continuing to sustain and increase our operations in this city, we are not going away. We are staying here to liberate this city from the socialist and burdensome leadership that this governor and this mayor have placed into this city,” Noem said during the press conference.
Setting aside the assault on your Senate colleague, do you think that this is an appropriate use of the US military? The removal of a duly elected mayor (and governor?) in order to enforce a political agenda?
Even if the threat does include the removal of either elected official from office, the main threat remains: the military will stay in LA in order to enforce this administration's political agenda - an agenda not supported by the people of the City of Los Angeles or of the State of California.
Is this OK with you, Senator?
I'll await your answer, Senator.
As always, I'll post whatever response I get.
