Mara Macie, a Republican representative from Florida, stated to Breitbart News on Saturday that she would voting the “the specific opposite” of her traditional player Rep. John Rutherford (R-FL ).
Before Rutherford voted in favor of all aspects of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA )$ 95 billion international assistance offer, including a bill that authorizes$ 60 billion for Ukraine but does nothing to secure the U.S., Macie and Matthew Boyle had a 20-minute talk. S. Southwestern borders.
Boyle, a fundamental of Rutherford’s, and Macie rightly predicted the representative may voting for the collection of foreign aid bills that Johnson bundled up under a second rule, which Rutherford Voted for, essentially giving Democrats control of the House floor. This came weeks after he voted against a key amendment to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ( FISA ) requiring warrants to surveil Americans ’ communications.
“ I mean, at the end of the day, I would get voting the exact opposite of the manner he votes. He votes like a Democrat, ” Macie said.
She also warned residents to see the package’s vote on Friday and the vote on Friday before the rule vote on Saturday.
I have been speaking to components at activities all year, and just like you, I now know how he will vote. I also warned them to” Watch this ballot, see how it turns out because I guarantee you he will vote against your objectives and against what you are asking him to do,” Macie said of the weekend’s foreign aid offer.
And it has turned off many of his voters, particularly those who have been supporting him for years while he was a judge in Florida because many of them are asking,” How is this man your senator?” ‘ ” she continued. Although he has established himself as the president, he has done a lot of things that components are unhappy with, I believe we will still have a great battle for the seat. ”
After its passage, Rutherford praised the practically$ 100 billion spending spree, which comes as the Biden administration’s country is also suffering from 40-year-high prices.
Americans being protected & The federal government has a basic obligation to provide for our national security. I voted to support the national safety item in order to participate in the United States. S. arms supplies & help the U.S. S. defense. My full statement can be found here: https ://t. co/GdhiE7eVdN https ://t. co/qCUpwkNXNz
— Rep. John Rutherford ( @RepRutherfordFL ) April 20, 2024
She noted that while Rutherford has “loyalists,” many of his supporters, including those who have previously voted for him and also know him personally, are getting tired of his election styles, including those that helped stop House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) from becoming a speaker.
According to Macie,” I think people are starting to realize that he is only voting the way the lake wants him to voting, that the people are agreeing up there, and that he is not paying attention to the phone calls and text messages, and that he is getting a lot of them.” “ I have people tell me every time I’m out speaking, ‘We tried to contact his office. We got a canned response, ’ or ‘We got an aid, ’ or ‘Someone else responded to us, ’ or ‘We did n’t get a response at all. ’ People don’t feel like he’s listening to them even if they’ve known him. So, outside of the loyalists, people really are looking for new representation, and I can’t blame them. I cannot blame them. ”
Fifth Congressional District Republicans urged Macie into the race after Rutherford refused to support a speakership of Jordan, making him one of the few members in the minority who successfully blocked Jordan from the gavel.
The Jordan incident is unquestionably the one that woke people up. that ’s what got me into this race is that people started calling me and messaging me and saying, ‘Listen, you said that if nobody was running against Rutherford again, that you would do it, ’” Macie recalled. “And, you know, I did, I told people that … I was going to give them a choice for better representation if nobody stepped up to the plate. So that ’s what I did. ”
Right down to the voting record, but people were n’t paying attention to the fact that his voting record before that was garbage, ” she continued. “ I mean, he has an ‘F’ on four conservative scorecards that I can think of off the top of my head, and a worse ‘F, ’ a worse failing grade, than Liz Cheney when she was in office. ”
Macie says that her “biggest obstacle ” in the race is local media, which she sees as “in the pocket of the establishment. ”
“Local media is in the pocket of the establishment, so they’re not covering me because they are trying to make sure that anybody who does n’t follow the bigger news outlets, just they follow local news, they’re trying to make sure they don’t know who I am, ” Macie said. You can tell from the way that the stories are written that they are trying to do damage control for John, and that if they have to publish something about me. ”
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