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Rare visit by House speaker to campus escalates tension at ColumbiaJohnson had the wrong Republican colleagues with him. All fools.
Get off our campus! one student yelled. Go back to Louisiana, Mike! someone shouted.
NEW YORK House Speaker Mike Johnson and his Republican colleagues were met with boos, laughs and pro-Palestinian chants after parachuting into one center of the roiling protest movement against Israels war against Hamas: Columbia University in New York City.
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Johnson and a group of GOP lawmakers landed on campus where tensions are high between the university administration and students who have erected pro-Palestinian encampments and demanded that Columbias president, Nemat Minouche Shafik, resign for failing to quickly dismantle the encampments and, in their view, for not doing enough to ensure that Jewish people on campus feel safe.
Around 4 p.m. Wednesday, the Louisiana Republican who just shepherded through Congress a $26 billion aid package for Israel, including $9 billion in humanitarian help to Gaza and elsewhere appeared on the steps of Columbias stately library, which looks out over the student encampments. Signs of a campus on edge were all over: A dozen New York police officers stood guard outside the schools big black gates on Broadway. Bike racks strung with yellow police tape cordoned off some of the sidewalk.
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Rare visit by House speaker to campus escalates tension at Columbia (Original Post)
LiberalFighter
Apr 24
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spanone
(135,873 posts)1. Johnson is pathetic...
Moses he ain't
malaise
(269,157 posts)2. As Rep Ilhan Omar said a few minutes ago
Its odd that one who cheered on the insurrectionists and coup plotters is attacking students on campus.
LeftInTX
(25,551 posts)3. A stupid idea to send a red state guy to Columbia Univ.
Would we send Pelosi to Baylor or Oral Roberts or Liberty U?
DJ Synikus Makisimus
(187 posts)4. Pouring gasoline on the fire was probably the intent.
With the visage of chaos in the House, the fascist GOP needs to sew chaos among their opposition (that's us AND the majority of the students). Nothing stirs that drink like the Gaza War.
My question is: does anyone know if he was invited or given permission to come by the Univ. President or Directors?
LeftInTX
(25,551 posts)6. I doubt that he was invited. Was he given permission? I have no idea.
He brought 50 GOP with him. Looks more like a campaign stop for the GOP to me.
He did say, "This better stop, or we will revoke funding".
I'm sure the students were paying attention...LOL
prodigitalson
(2,429 posts)5. in addition to the usual steamy sexual tension wherever mike johson goes?