Wed, 05/12/2021
LAWRENCE House Republicans voted Wednesday to oust U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming from her leadership post as the conference chair. The vote was taken to repudiate Cheney’s refusal to back former president Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 presidential election and for voting to convict in his impeachment. The move is not the first time a woman has taken a political stand against her party, says political history expert Teri Finneman.
Finneman, associate professor of journalism & mass communications at the University of Kansas, is available to discuss Cheney’s stand and political parallels between today’s action and previous similar instances. The story is similar to what happened in 1950 with Republican Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, Finneman said.