WASHINGTON (AP) — A freshman Republican congressman from Wisconsin is refusing to apologize after he yelled and cursed at high school-aged Senate pages during a late night tour of the Capitol this week, eliciting a bipartisan rebuke from Senate leaders.
Rep. Derrick Van Orden, speaking in a round of interviews Friday on Wisconsin conservative talk radio, did not refute reports of his actions or back down from what he did.
Van Orden used a profanity to describe the pages as lazy and and another to order them off the floor of the Capitol Rotunda on Wednesday night, according to a report in the online political newsletter PunchBowl News. The pages were laying down to take photos in the Rotunda, according to the publication.
“I’m not going to apologize for making sure that anybody — I don’t care who you are and who you’re related to — defiles this House,” Van Orden said on “The Jay O’Donnell Show.” “It’s not going to happen on my watch, man.”
@Madison_rogue Yet another classless GOP crank. 100% guarantee that some time in the future we’ll be hearing more from this right wing backbencher
I don’t doubt that at all.
Dude was drunk at the time. He is also an insurrectionist. He’s a dipshit.
It’s especially ironic that someone who was at the Jan 6th shitshow is talking about “defiling the House”. (Granted, he claims he didn’t go inside the Capitol, but still.)
@Madison_rogue please add a label. Thank you!
