The crowd outside

My Congressional representative is Rashida Tlaib. She’s been calling for impeachment of the nasty guy since she took office in January. She has introduced House Resolution 257 to begin investigation of possible impeachable offenses. She’s been talking to her House colleagues to about becoming cosponsors.

She hosted a “Congress, Coffee & Conversation” event this evening. So I went. It was held in a “small business” size restaurant. When I got there, about the time the event was to start, I saw a crowd around the door and an aide already speaking. From what he eventually said the restaurant had already exceeded the fire code capacity. He wanted us to know of upcoming events. He said they were surprised at the size of the crowd and assured us future venues will be chosen for a much larger capacity.

I counted 35 in the crowd outside. I didn’t count the two woman who carried protest signs or the cluster of vets (with flags) who sat in the shade.

About ten minutes later Rashida arrived with her two sons (she’s a single mom). The protest women started speaking as Rashida shook hands (alas, she didn’t get to me). Someone else said, “Should we sing Happy Birthday to drown them out?” Then Rashida began to speak and the protest women quieted down with the rest of us. Rashida spoke of what her office could do for us and some of her big issues, such as auto insurance rates (this is a state issue, but Rashida isn’t shy about expressing her opinion).

Then a man asked what about impeachment? Rashida went into some of the reasons why she thought impeachment was necessary and important. This included saying she opposed the merger of two phone companies – and when the company reps came to Washington they stayed at the nasty guy’s hotel. Even Jimmy Carter sold his peanut farm when he became president, she said. This president hasn’t even done a proper blind trust.

A protest woman shouted, “That’s a lie!” The rest of the crowd seemed annoyed. Rashida engaged for a bit though she also made it obvious it was time for her to head inside. That’s when I left.



I looked up Resolution 257. Alas, it has only nine cosponsors. It should have much more than that – like 220 more.