Tricia Cotham, now subbing for Welcome Wagon:
State Rep. Tricia Cotham (R-Mecklenburg) didn’t waste much time welcoming Georgia lawmaker Mesha Mainor into the Republican Party.
Mainor announced Tuesday that she is leaving the Democratic Party after falling out with state party leaders over a recent vote she cast in support of a school voucher bill.
Cotham quickly tweeted this note: “Welcome to the Republican Party!”
Mainor’s decision to break with Democrats no doubt made an impression on Cotham who broke with North Carolina Democrats in April. Cotham called the party she’d been a member of for decades “unrecognizable” and quick to “villainize anyone who has free thought.”
So both parties expect compliance, if not outright unity. Big deal! Everybody knows that. And they can put heavy pressure on their elected members. Tricia Cotham only wants to make something unique-to-Democrats out of it to cover her own sense of shame for being the Turncoat of the Decade.
The Trumpist GOP and "free thought" are not words that should ever appear in the same sentence, else we've learned nothing from the examples of Liz Chaney and Thom Tillis.
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"So both parties expect compliance, if not outright unity. Big deal! Everybody knows that. And they can put heavy pressure on their elected members." JW
Maybe it's just me, but I think that physical threats, often in person and in public, against your person and against your children is unacceptable.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/longtime-democrat-lawmaker-turned-activist-defects-republican-party
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