{"id":1416957,"date":"2022-04-03T14:14:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T18:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416957"},"modified":"2022-04-03T14:14:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T18:14:49","slug":"exclusive-republican-matt-mowers-torches-democrat-rep-chris-pappas-for-allowing-proxy-voting-to-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-republican-matt-mowers-torches-democrat-rep-chris-pappas-for-allowing-proxy-voting-to-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Republican Matt Mowers Torches Democrat Rep. Chris Pappas for Allowing Proxy Voting to Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fexclusive-republican-matt-mowers-torches-democrat-rep-chris-pappas-for-allowing-proxy-voting-to-continue%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=1416957&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--><p class=\"subheading\">New Hampshire\u2019s 1st Congressional District Republican candidate Matt Mowers, who is looking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/30\/matt-mowers-announces-congressional-run-d-c-cesspool-needs-new-leadership\/\">unseat<\/a> vulnerable Democrat Rep. Chris Pappas, hammered the incumbent in a statement to Breitbart News for \u201cnot showing up for work\u201d after a report revealed he continuously proxy voted last year and allowing it to continue while covering for colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) continuously extending the ability for members of Congress to vote by proxy \u2013 despite some Republican pushback citing that members should lead by example \u2013 Pappas\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/ProxyLetter#AllProxies\">filed<\/a> documents with the Office of the House Clerk\u00a0five times to proxy vote last year, designating that another member will vote for him, NH Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/nhjournal.com\/kuster-pappas-still-using-covid-era-proxy-rules-to-skip-votes\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/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>In response to this, Mowers, the Republican nominee against Pappas in 2020, told Breitbart News, \u201cWe knew Chris Pappas had been hopelessly lost to D.C. elites who want to tell you how to live your lives and then don\u2019t follow their own rules. Now that he\u2019s not showing up for work, that really takes the cake though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While he hasn\u2019t voted by proxy since October, Pappas is listed as the proxy voter for vulnerable Democrat\u00a0Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/25\/democrat-rep-cuellar-speaks-out-after-fbi-raids-his-home\/\">recently<\/a> had his home raided by federal agents at the beginning of the year.\u00a0Cuellar\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/legislative\/proxy-letters\/117\/2\/active\/Cuellar-TX28-20220330-19.pdf\">letter<\/a>\u00a0explained that he\u2019s \u201cunable to physically attend the proceedings in the House Chamber,\u00a0due to the ongoing public health emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18490794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/10\/AP21251585377894-1.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH) attends a groundbreaking ceremony for a $1.7 billion dry dock project at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on September 8, 2021, in Kittery, Maine. (AP Photo\/Robert F. Bukaty)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>NH Journal also explained that the \u201cmotive\u201d to avoid the dangers of coronavirus is \u201cCOVID infection and hospitalization rates have plunged nationally to their lowest levels since last July.\u201d Recently, Washington, DC announced that restrictions would be relaxed because \u201cthe virus transmission has dropped dramatically.\u201d D.C.\u2019s\u00a0health department also said people can take \u201cminimal indoor precautions against the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a slap in the face to the many Granite Staters who worked on the frontlines of the pandemic. They bravely showed up day in and day out \u2014 unable to enjoy Pelosi\u2019s extended spring break,\u201d Mowers continued. \u201cEven now, as families in our district scramble for new sources of income, crushed under the Biden-Pappas 70s-style inflation, Pappas phones it in and runs cover for his pals under federal investigation. Unlike Chris Pappas, I will proudly show up to work and fight tirelessly on behalf of the First District each and every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pappas could see trouble in the midterms later this year. Mowers \u2013 who worked in Trump Tower during the 2016\u00a0campaign, served on former President Donald Trump\u2019s transition team, and then was a\u00a0senior White House adviser at the\u00a0State Department before he ran as a Republican against Pappas in 2020 \u2013 has successfully\u00a0raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for his election, has been continuously calling out Pappas for his mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>Mowers has called out Pappas for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/19\/republican-matt-mowers-slams-vulnerable-democrat-chris-pappas-abandoning-new-hampshire-families-spending-bill\/\">poor voting record<\/a> \u2014 voting for the\u00a0Build Back Better Act, the Democrats\u2019 reconciliation infrastructure bill \u2013 and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/midterm-election\/2022\/04\/02\/exclusive-new-hampshire-republican-matt-mowers-slams-democrat-chris-pappas-failing-voters\/\">failing<\/a> Granite Staters by being blindly loyal to President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>He has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/25\/matt-mowers-calls-democrat-chris-pappas-expand-ban-insider-trading-members-spouses\/\">called<\/a> on Pappas to take action against members and their spouses for profiting off corrupt insider trading practices and to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/02\/republican-matt-mowers-calls-democrat-chris-pappas-condemn-billionaire-bill-gates-dark-money-ads\/\">condemn<\/a>\u00a0television\u00a0ads funded by billionaire Bill Gates\u2019 \u201cdark money\u201d organization which thanked\u00a0him for supporting\u00a0the Democrats\u2019 radical spending packages.<\/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>New Hampshire\u2019s 1st Congressional District Republican candidate Matt Mowers, who is looking to unseat vulnerable Democrat Rep. Chris Pappas, hammered the incumbent in a statement to Breitbart News for \u201cnot<\/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-1416957","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\/1416957","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=1416957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416957\/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=1416957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}