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TexasTowelie

(116,747 posts)
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 04:16 AM Oct 2021

Sununu says Rep. Ken Weyler should lose his role as House Finance Chair over COVID-19 misinformation

Gov. Chris Sununu joined top State House Democrats in calling for Rep. Ken Weyler to lose his position as the House’s top budget writer due to the Republican from Kingston's continued spread of COVID-19 misinformation.

“I have repeatedly expressed directly to Speaker Packard about the need to remove Weyler from this position of leadership,” Sununu said in a statement. “These latest absurd emails have accelerated the urgency that the Speaker needs to take action,” Sununu said.

Sununu’s statement comes after Weyler, 79, emailed colleagues materials full of COVID conspiracy theories, including a discredited, false report that claims COVID deaths are driven by a plot orchestrated out of Vatican City, Washington D.C. and London.

“It’s all one huge puppet theatre, where the majority of the people— even most of those who are complicit — haven’t got the slightest clue what is going on, and how everyone is being played,” the report states.

Read more: https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2021-10-04/ken-weyler-misinformation-covid

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Sununu says Rep. Ken Weyler should lose his role as House Finance Chair over COVID-19 misinformation (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2021 OP
No shortage of qualified D representatives. Don't need kooks in leadership roles. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2021 #1
Aren't all these freedom, no mandate types all just John Birchers in disguise? bucolic_frolic Oct 2021 #2
Weyler finally resigned from that position yesterday: ramen Oct 2021 #3

bucolic_frolic

(46,972 posts)
2. Aren't all these freedom, no mandate types all just John Birchers in disguise?
Fri Oct 8, 2021, 06:12 AM
Oct 2021

You know, libertarians and private property and morality according to them

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