{"id":1096911,"date":"2021-12-08T00:43:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T05:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1096911"},"modified":"2021-12-08T00:43:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T05:43:47","slug":"republican-tyler-kistner-slams-democrat-rep-angie-craig-for-abusing-proxy-vote-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-tyler-kistner-slams-democrat-rep-angie-craig-for-abusing-proxy-vote-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Tyler Kistner Slams Democrat Rep. Angie Craig for Abusing Proxy Vote Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublican-tyler-kistner-slams-democrat-rep-angie-craig-for-abusing-proxy-vote-rule%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1096911&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/angie-craig-june2021-d-mn-pelosi-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Minnesota\u2019s Second Congressional District Republican candidate&nbsp;Tyler Kistner slammed Democrat&nbsp;Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) for using the proxy vote rule due to the&nbsp;\u201congoing public health emergency\u201d and, the same day, promoting the&nbsp;so-called&nbsp;bipartisan infrastructure package with President Joe Biden in her district. The very next day, she voted in person and then attended an NBA game in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarlier this month it was discovered that Congresswoman Angie Craig claimed she was unable to attend two separate votes, instead voting by proxy on H.R. 4026 and H.R. 550 due to the \u2018ongoing public health emergency,&#8217;\u201d&nbsp;Kistner wrote in a statement. &nbsp;\u201cHowever \u2026 Craig attended an event in Minnesota with President Joe Biden and his sinking approval rating in Minnesota to promote their flawed policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe next day Angie Craig was seen sitting in courtside seats&nbsp;at an NBA game in Washington DC with Congressman Dean Phillips and Maryland Congressman David Trone,\u201d&nbsp;Kistner continued. \u201cAngie Craig continues to abuse the rules to avoid her duties serving the&nbsp;people by properly representing Minnesotans in the Second Congressional District.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zX_N3unvPo0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Kistner declared that if he is elected as the district\u2019s next congressman, he would \u201calways put the interests of Minnesotans first by being a servant leader doing the job I was elected to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Republican is running for a second time against Craig, hoping to unseat her in the rematch.&nbsp;Kistner spent&nbsp;nine years in the Marine Corps serving the county overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/06\/vulnerable-democrat-angie-craig-abuses-proxy-vote-to-attend-biden-event-nba-game-maskless\/\">reported<\/a> on Monday that&nbsp;Craig&nbsp;claimed she could not attend necessary House votes in person last week, on November 30, due to the \u201congoing public health emergency\u201d but, she was still able to promote the&nbsp;so-called&nbsp;bipartisan infrastructure package with President Joe Biden when he visited her district on the same day.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.5555555555556\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It was wonderful to welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MN02?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MN02<\/a> today to discuss just how much the bipartisan infrastructure package will benefit our local communities. Now, it\u2019s back to Washington to continue our hard work <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ForThePeople?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ForThePeople<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3QsMQZUd85\">pic.twitter.com\/3QsMQZUd85<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Angie Craig (@RepAngieCraig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepAngieCraig\/status\/1465848027634184203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Craig had authorized Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) to cast her vote in the House while she was \u201cunable\u201d to be there in person.<\/p>\n<p>The very next day,&nbsp;on December 1, as Breitbart News reported, the congresswoman voted in-person for all roll call votes,&nbsp;according to a spokesperson. Then, later that evening,&nbsp;Craig posted a picture of herself with other lawmakers, maskless, indoors, at an NBA game at DC\u2019s Capital One Arena.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.472049689441\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deanbphillips?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@deanbphillips<\/a> and me against <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidjtrone?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@davidjtrone<\/a> tonight. Let\u2019s go <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Timberwolves?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Timberwolves<\/a>!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7DrlXJiyyQ\">pic.twitter.com\/7DrlXJiyyQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Angie Craig (@AngieCraigMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AngieCraigMN\/status\/1466212070932819968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the last election cycle,&nbsp;Kistner lost by roughly two percent, but due to a third-party candidate, Craig was still unable to obtain more than 50 percent of the vote.&nbsp;Kistner\u2019s campaign touted how he outperformed former President Donald Trump in the district by eight percent and was about to raise \u201cjust under $3,000,000 in 2020 despite a late entry into the race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota\u2019s Second Congressional District Republican candidate\u00a0Tyler Kistner slammed Democrat\u00a0Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) for using the proxy vote rule due to the\u00a0\u201congoing public health emergency\u201d and, the same day, promoting the\u00a0so-called\u00a0bipartisan &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}