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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday said the newly named interim speaker, GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, has ordered her to vacate her office in the Capitol building.

She does maintain her regular office in the Cannon House office building.

An email sent from McHenry’s office to Pelosi’s office just after 6 p.m. Tuesday evening that was viewed by CNN, stated, “Going to reassign h-132 for speaker office use. Please vacate the space tomorrow.”

Pelosi said in a statement that she was not in Washington, DC, to immediately move her belongings.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You're of course 100% right. It looks like a cheap ploy to me though. McCarthy was not a friend to Democrats and he didn't kick Pelosi out of her office. It looks like either McHenry is trying to earn brownie points with the freedom caucus by beating up on Pelosi or maybe he's kicking her out of her larger office so he can use it as a bargaining chip to garner support for his run on the speakership.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

McCarthy was not a friend to Democrats and he didn’t kick Pelosi out of her office.

McCarthy seemingly followed the norm of letting the previous speaker keep their office if they wanted. McHenry is pissed at Democrats for helping 8 super crazy Republicans oust his friend as Speaker. Watching McHenry gavel out yesterday's session it was obvious that he is very angry at what happened.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He should probably blame the freedom caucus then. Or hey, maybe even his buddy McCarthy for accepting such an obvious poison pill with the rule change that enabled his ouster.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

That's definitely a possibility. I really should go back and watch the vote on YouTube or something. It's obviously a little silly to be upset with Democrats in this scenario. Hey McCarthy can always take consolation in the fact that his name will be in some history book somewhere as long as people are interested in American politics. Ozymandias would be proud.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Her office also has symbolic meaning to the J6er fuckholes because of that famous photo of that douchebag teabagging her stuff.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Ding ding ding!