QAnon, Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theorist To Speak at Republican State Convention
'We are thrilled to have' Mayra Flores, former GOP Congresswoman from Texas as speaker.
Former U.S. Rep. Mayra Flores (R-Tex.) has been invited to speak at the Wisconsin GOP convention in June. (U.S. Congress)
The Republican Party of Wisconsin has invited Mayra Flores, a former Republican member of Congress from Texas who shared conspiracy theories on her Twitter account, to speak at the party’s state convention in La Crosse next month.
Flores, the first Mexican-born member of the House of Representatives, represented her south Texas district in Congress for six months before being defeated in November by Democrat Vincente Gonzalez.
“[Flores] will be speaking to grassroots activists from across Wisconsin at the 2023 WisGOP Convention,” the party tweeted on Thursday. “We are thrilled to have a strong Republican leader like Mayra speaking this summer!”
In a tweet on Jan. 6, 2021, Flores shared the conspiracy theory that the attack on the U.S. Capitol was actually committed by leftist activists posing as Trump supporters, writing that the riot “surely was caused by infiltrators.”
On at least four occasions on Twitter, Flores shared hashtags associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory which holds that a cabal of Satan-worshiping “deep state actors” and Democrats secretly ran the government during the Trump administration.
The Democratic Party of Wisconsin said in a statement that Flores’ invitation highlights the radicalism of the state’s Republicans.
“Mayra Flores has dabbled in all the extreme conspiracy theories we’ve seen favored by Wisconsin Republicans in recent years — making her the perfect headliner for next month’s state GOP convention,” Democratic Party spokesperson Joe Oslund said in a statement. “In the wake of yet another statewide embarrassment at the polls, the choice to put a conspiracy theorist like Mayra Flores front and center proves that the Wisconsin GOP has learned nothing — they’re as extreme and out of touch with Wisconsin voters as ever.”
Wisconsin GOP invites QAnon, Jan. 6 conspiracy theorist to speak at state convention was originally published by the Wisconsin Examiner.
PATHETIC.
I wonder why Congressman George Santos (who lied about his ethnicity, jobs, and education and promoted a racist agenda) is still in office. No one seems to care.
I wonder why my Representative, Scott Fitzgerald, is saying nothing about George Santos, and then I start to understand.
I’m not sure what Flores did or said. Coping from the internet:
“In a tweet from January 6, Flores said the Capitol riot “surely was caused by infiltrators.” In another tweet that day, Flores posted images suggesting Capitol rioter Jacob Chansley – more commonly known as the QAnon Shaman – had also attended an Arizona Black Lives Matter rally. Following the Capitol riot, pro-Trump social media users attempted to falsely claim Chansley was a member of Blacks Live Matter and Antifa. The claim was repeatedly debunked.”
It would be interesting if there had been “we asked Flores for comments and there was no response.”
I think that the Democratic Party has been malfeasant in not highlighting the looney tunes, book burning and seditionist direction of the party. The Republican Party is looking more like the one from Texas than the party when Tommy Thompson was Governor.
The Democratic Party is guilty of malfeasance? Really? Stupidity, yes; cowardice, definitely; nonfeasance exactly; but not malfeasance— the commission of an illegal and evil act. It is not an act of omission (a failure to act.) Malfeasance is duping asylum seekers into getting on an airplane to Martha’s Vineyard on the false promise of jobs. Malfeasance is attempting to seat fake electors in order to overturn the results of a presidential election. Malfeasance is attacking, injuring, and killing capitol police officers whose job is to protect members of Congress. Malfeasance is spending over $2 million on a biased, poorly run commission, ripe with fraud and misappropriations, to investigate blatantly false election allegations. Since Roger Ailes’ “Southern Strategy” under Nixon, the Republican Party started down the slippery slope to malfeasance. Our collective act of nonfeasance is why we are where we are today.
One of the problems is a lack of accountability.
The US runs out of baby formula, and no one is fired. We have US Military General Officers retiring at “full pay.” I could go on and on and expect that many others could as well. But, there is nothing. Promotions keep happening, billions more spent. . .
There is the Burn Pit PACT Act, and we must care for our veterans. Why doesn’t Congress hold the military leadership accountable for exposing our military to burn pits? Why isn’t Congress holding military leadership accountable – reduced on the retired list?
(The Congressional Budget Office projected costs are more than one hundred billion. The bill doesn’t provide money to train healthcare workers, doctors, etc. Those at the highest level of Veteran Health Care will be paid even more. What about training more doctors? When you can’t find a doctor. . . More than one hundred billion dollars and no one is accountable?)
Poor leadership. . . And, where is the media with hard questions?