One day, we will all remember where we each were on Sept. 30, 2023.
On that fateful Saturday afternoon, democracy itself trembled as Rep. Jamaal Bowman, New York Democrat, set off a fire alarm in the Cannon House Office Building in a brazen but unsuccessful attempt to interfere with Republicans who were trying to pass a continuing resolution to keep the federal government open.
It’s hard to believe that Mr. Bowman, an accomplished educator who served for a decade as a middle school principal in the Bronx, could be unfamiliar with the mechanisms of a fire drill. Even if one were to assume he wasn’t paying attention at school, the Capitol itself conducts regular evacuation exercises. And of course, there’s nothing ambiguous about the purpose of the bright red box that he activated.
Mr. Bowman is among those who called for the book to be thrown at those protesters, introducing a resolution to create a national day to conjure up memories of the regrettable Capitol fracas. Last December, he even called for expulsion of one of his colleagues, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, for making a jest about organizing the Jan. 6 squabble. As Mr. Bowman quoted the Georgia Republican, he conveniently left out the part where she explained, “That’s the joke.
And he is not alone. An individual even more deeply involved in condemning Jan. 6 protesters found himself in even hotter water last week.
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