Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021 | 2 a.m.
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I don’t blame Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., for moving herself and her staff away from an unstable co-worker who has threatened her and her colleagues. Bush says she didn’t relocate out of fear; she moved so she could do the job the people of St. Louis elected her to do.
It’s a noble and novel concept. It makes all the sense in the world. What doesn’t make sense is how someone can keep a job after threatening co-workers and the boss. I have worked for numerous Fortune 500 companies and believe me, that person would be escorted out by armed police before you could say QAnon.
Yet, in one of the highest branches of our government, an employee by the name of Marjorie Taylor Greene, a newly elected Republican from Georgia, is allowed to keep her job, her salary, her benefits and her gun after spewing hate toward co-workers and suggesting that the best way to get rid of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was to put a bullet in her head. She even aimed her vitriol at the victim of one of the country’s most horrific school shootings.
There should be zero tolerance for threats of violence, harassment and intimidation in any workplace; especially the one that makes the laws for the rest of us to abide by. In the words of the former president she blindly follows: “Marjorie, you’re fired.”
