U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, D-N.M., woke up excited.
Wednesday was supposed to be what American democracy is all about, she said. She started the day by singing “Las Mañanitas,” a traditional Mexican birthday song, to New Mexico in front of the state flag perched outside her D.C. home because statehood was achieved exactly 109 years ago. Then the freshman lawmaker headed to the U.S. Capitol, expecting a long day ending in the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over outgoing President Donald Trump.
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Hours later, she was inside a locked office with no windows, where she had been ushered by Capitol police after pro-Trump extremists stormed the Capitol building. She said she had been watching C-SPAN in an office inside the Capitol and heard sounds of violence outside escalating for about 45 minutes before the building was breached and police escorted lawmakers to safety.
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Another one of Joe Biden’s cabinet picks is being celebrated and ushered in with open arms by the media, without not a word of scrutiny. Last week, the President-Elect tapped an anti-religious bigot and abortion enthusiast for Health and Human Services Secretary, but you would never know it by how the media glowingly reported on his nomination. Similarly, yesterday’s announcement that Biden picked an Antifa-defending, radical Democrat congresswoman, who bullied and smeared the Covington Catholic students in 2019, to be a cabinet secretary, was met with similar praise from journalists.
Freshman Rep. Deb Haaland (D- N.M.) was nominated for Secretary of the Interior; she will be the first Native American to be a cabinet secretary. (Though way back in 1929,
Dem Tapped to Run Interior Smeared Covington Students
Rep. Deb Haaland accused Covington students of hate and intolerance Rep. Deb Haaland (D., N.M.) / Getty Images
December 17, 2020 4:48 PM
President-elect Joe Biden announced he will nominate a New Mexico Democrat who smeared students from Covington Catholic High School last year to lead the Department of the Interior.
Rep. Deb Haaland (D., N.M.), a freshman congresswoman and one of two Native-American women in Congress, accused the high school students of hate and intolerance in January 2019 after a selectively edited video clip of an encounter between pro-life student activists and counterprotesters in Washington, D.C., went viral.