I am not the person who can be credited with coming up with this term. Also note that sedition is just a term used to describe these 147 people, but they did not commit sedition. It is still a term that is used and is the most widely accepted. Some call them instead the treason caucus. I prefer the term sedition even if those two words mean the same thing.
Who are these people and how are they infamous? Well, let’s get to why they are important. On the day of the storming of the capitol, there were people who were planning to vote against the certification of the election. They may not have realized what they were doing. After all, it would not have been Trump who would have become president if they succeeded, which they weren’t going to do while having a minority in the House. It would have been the Speaker of the House, namely Nancy Pelosi, who would have become president as she was next in line that was not part of the elected tickets. This is why there is a perfect conspiracy theory of her being the one responsible for the riot of January 6th that only first was spread months after. As usual, we get the perfect conspiracy theory from conservatives far too late for it to make sense anymore.
Now, I’m going to mention all of them by name. All are Republicans. First, I will mention those who are serving in the House. Then, I’ll mention the senators. An asterisk next to their name means that they were doing their job for only three days when they made this vote. Edit: This was not accurate when I originally posted it, but I will now have all of the asterisks that belong once you are seeing this. I took out one that was there in error. It is worth noting that not all new House members are in this and never are all of the new Senate members either.
Alabama’s Congressmen: Robert Aderholt, Mo Brooks, Jerry Carl *, Barry Moore *, Gary Palmer, and Mike Rogers. Arizona’s Congress people: Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, Debbie Lesko, and David Schweikert. Arkansas Congressman Rick Crawford is one.
California’s Congressmen: Ken Calvert, Mike Garcia, Darrell Issa *, Doug LaMalfa, Kevin McCarthy, Devin Nunes, and Jay Obernolte *. Colorado’s Congress people: Lauren Boebert * and Doug Lamborn. Florida’s Congress people: Kat Cammack *, Mario Diaz-Balart, Byron Donalds *, Neal Dunn, Scott Franklin *, Matt Gaetz, Carlos Gimenez *, Brian Mast, Bill Posey, John Rutherford, Greg Steube, and Daniel Webster.
Georgia’s Congress people: Rick Allen, Buddy Carter, Andrew Clyde *, Marjorie Taylor Greene *, Jody Hice, and Barry Loudermilk. Idaho’s Congressman Russ Fulcher is one. Illinois’s Congress people: Mike Bost and Mary Miller *.
Indiana’s Congress people: Jim Baird, Jim Banks, Greg Pence (brother of Mike Pence), and Jackie Walorski. Kansas’s Congress people: Ron Estes, Jacob LaTurner *, and Tracey Mann *. Kentucky’s Congressman Harold Rogers is one.
Louisiana’s Congressmen: Garret Graves, Clay Higgins, Mike Johnson, and Steve Scalise. Maryland’s Congressman Andy Harris is one. Michigan’s Congress people: Jack Bergman, Lisa McClain *, and Tim Walberg.
Minnesota’s Congress people: Michelle Fischbach * and Jim Hagedorn. Mississippi’s Congressmen: Michael Guest, Trent Kelly, and Steven Palazzo. Missouri’s Congress people: Sam Graves, Vicky Hartzler, Billy Long, Blaine Luetkemeyer, and Jason Smith.
Montana’s Congressman Matt Rosendale * is one and Nebraska’s Congressman Adrian Smith is another. North Carolina’s Congress people: Dan Bishop, Ted Budd, Madison Cawthorn *, Virginia Foxx, Richard Hudson, Gregory F Murphy, and David Rouzer.
New Jersey’s Congressman Jeff Van Drew is one and New Mexico’s Congresswoman Yvette Herrell * is another. New York’s Congress people: Chris Jacobs, Nicole Malliotakis *, Elise Stefanik, and Lee Zeldin. Ohio’s Congressmen are Steve Chabot, Warren Davidson, Bob Gibbs, Bill Johnson, and Jim Jordan. Oklahoma’s Congress people are Stephanie Bice *, Tom Cole, Kevin Hern, Frank Lucas, and Markwayne Mullin.
Oregon’s Congressman Cliff Bentz * is one. Pennsylvania’s Congressmen: John Joyce, Fred Keller, Mike Kelly, Daniel Meuser, Scott Perry, Guy Reschenthaler, Lloyd Smucker, and Glenn Thompson. South Carolina’s Congressmen: Jeff Duncan, Ralph Norman, Tom Rice, William Timmons, and Joe Wilson.
Tennessee’s Congress people: Tim Burchett, Scott DesJarlais, Chuck Fleischmann, Mark E Green, Diana Harshbarger *, David Kustoff, and John Rose. Texas’s Congress people: Jodey Arrington, Brian Babin, Michael C Burgess, John R Carter, Michael Cloud, Pat Fallon *, Louie Gohmert, Lance Gooden, Ronny Jackson *, Troy Nehls *, August Pfluger *, Pete Sessions *, Beth Van Duyne *, Randy Weber, Roger Williams, and the late Ron Wright.
Utah’s Congressmen: Burgess Owens * and Chris Stewart. Virginia’s Congress people: Ben Cline, Bob Good *, Morgan Griffith, and Robert J Wittman. West Virginia’s Congress people: Carol Miller and Alexander Mooney. Finally, we have Wisconsin’s Congressmen: Scott L Fitzgerald * and Tom Tiffany.
The senators are class one senators Ted Cruz of Texas, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, and Rick Scott of Florida, the class two senators of Cynthia Lummis * of Wyoming, Roger Marshall * of Kansas, and Tommy Tuberville * of Alabama, and the class three senator of John Kennedy of Louisiana..
There is a scandal right now with one of the Congressmen mentioned, Matt Gaetz. LegalEagle did a video on him and his alleged crimes. We’ll see if this gets him out of office or if they won’t care about this in the end.
LegalEagle’s
video on Matt Gaetz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpDIJHWg0Pw
Now it should be noted that there were plenty of people who didn’t vote to overturn the election for president. Most of the Republican senate was that way as was nearly half the Republican House. While there was a link to a planned 12 then 13 people in the senate total who were going to vote against it, a good chunk of them didn’t after the storming.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/05/really-bad-day-dirty-dozen/
(Does not include the planned Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, James Lankford of North Dakota, Steve Daines of Montana, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Mike Braun of Indiana, and Kelly Loeffler of Georgia)
It is also worth noting that relating to the vote at hand, there were 126 people on record as supporting the Supreme Court case of Texas versus Pennsylvania which violates at least one Amendment if not two. I’d have to check the list of this again just to see who here is not among those who voted against the certification of the presidential election results because maybe they saw the light. Also, one of the points regarding this mess that I just now thought of is that they were only voting against the results of just one of the elections even though plenty all took place at once. What would make the presidential race invalid, but not any of the others?
(Includes, among others, Louisiana Congressmen Mike Johnson, Steve Scalise, Ralph Abraham, Clay Higgins, Indiana Congressmen Trey Hollingsworth, James R. Baird, James Banks, Arizona Congressmen Debbie Lesko, Andy Biggs, Missouri Congressmen Sam Graves, Vicky Hartzler, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Jason Smith, Ann Wagner)
Of course, while the people who voted against the certifications of the results of the presidential election did not commit sedition, those who stormed the capitol did. Some of them are or were elected Republicans. I read that it might be over 50, but am unsure of who all did it. I would need to check to see who all was at the rally Trump did and then marched to the capitol like he wanted them to. I have the link to at least one of the politicians who was responsible for them. If you do not mind supporting a Republican super pac, then donate to Run for Something which seeks to get rid of all of these people from office. Also donate to the Democratic pac Operation 147.
There isn’t much else to talk about in this post. It should be remembered that there were plenty of Republicans who didn’t vote for sedition. Not even Trump poodle Lindsey Graham voted against certifying the election results. Now I need to get caught up on this blog by doing a post on the results of the presidential election that has long been delayed now. There are a lot of the really long blog posts that I need to do for different blogs sometime when I have the chance. And I’m running out of my self imposed deadlines to do it by.
