{"id":42493,"date":"2017-08-23T06:15:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T06:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=42493"},"modified":"2017-08-23T06:15:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T06:15:05","slug":"missouri-senator-who-urged-trump-assassination-booted-from-committees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/politics\/missouri-senator-who-urged-trump-assassination-booted-from-committees.html","title":{"rendered":"Missouri senator who urged Trump assassination booted from committees"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Missouri senator who urged Trump assassination booted from committees<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Missouri senator who urged Trump assassination booted from committees:- Sorry might not cut it for the Missouri lawmaker who called for President Trump\u2019s assassination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Missouri Senate leaders announced Tuesday that Democratic state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal has been stripped of her committee assignments, just two days after she tried to calm the controversy with a public apology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Meanwhile, the state\u2019s Republican lieutenant governor, Mike Parson, on Tuesday called for the Senate to go into special session to expel Chappelle-Nadal from the body.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cI do not make this request of you lightly, but you and I know it is the right course of action to take for the people of Missouri,\u201d Parson wrote in a letter to members of the Missouri Senate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Republican Senate President Pro Tem Ron Richard and Minority Leader Gina Walsh on Tuesday both rescinded the lawmaker\u2019s nine committee assignments, with Richard saying in a brief statement: &#8220;I support the decision of Senate Minority Leader Gina Walsh to remove Sen. Chappelle-Nadal from all of her Senate committees. I am also removing her from all appointments under my authority.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The move reflects the erosion of support Chappelle-Nadal has seen ever since she posted on Facebook last week: &#8220;I hope Trump is assassinated!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Chappelle-Nadal later deleted the statement. She then apologized at a press conference streamed live Sunday on the Facebook page of the Clayton Times, a St. Louis County newspaper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">\u201cPresident Trump, I apologize to you and your family,\u201d Chappelle-Nadal said at the Wellspring Church in Ferguson, Mo. \u201cI also apologize to all the people in Missouri. And I also apologize to my colleagues in the Missouri legislature for the mistake that I made.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">She added, \u201cI made a mistake. And I\u2019m owning up to it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">But Missouri&#8217;s Republican governor and lieutenant governor already had said senators should oust her from office if she doesn&#8217;t resign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Expulsion from office would require a two-thirds vote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2017\/08\/22\/missouri-senator-who-urged-trump-assassination-booted-from-committees.html<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/politics\/missouri-senator-who-urged-trump-assassination-booted-from-committees.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri senator who urged Trump assassination booted from committees Missouri senator who urged Trump assassination booted from committees:- Sorry might not cut it for the Missouri lawmaker who called for President Trump\u2019s assassination. Missouri Senate leaders announced Tuesday that Democratic state Sen. 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