{"id":1424579,"date":"2022-04-07T19:29:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T23:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1424579"},"modified":"2022-04-07T19:29:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T23:29:48","slug":"how-else-could-this-come-across-senator-joni-ernst-has-tense-exchange-with-biden-nominee-who-called-her-sotu-response-hideous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-else-could-this-come-across-senator-joni-ernst-has-tense-exchange-with-biden-nominee-who-called-her-sotu-response-hideous\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018How Else Could This Come Across?\u2019: Senator Joni Ernst Has Tense Exchange With Biden Nominee Who Called Her SOTU Response \u2018Hideous\u2019"},"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\">42<\/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%2Fhow-else-could-this-come-across-senator-joni-ernst-has-tense-exchange-with-biden-nominee-who-called-her-sotu-response-hideous%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=1424579&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/C73529A2-5002-447A-96F4-A42096EE09C6-scaled.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Iowa Republican Senator Joni Ernst had a tense exchange with a Biden administration nominee who called her \u201chideous\u201d in a tweet in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>At a meeting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TLMadzO4eEA\">Senate Environment and Public Works Committee<\/a> Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joni-ernst\">Ernst<\/a> questioned Beth Prichard Geer, one of President Joe Biden\u2019s nominees to the board of directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, a federally-owned electric utility corporation serving the state of Tennessee and parts of several other southern states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you stated in your written testimony, you believe one reason you should be confirmed to serve in the TVA, the Tennessee Valley, is because of your ability to \u2018build relationships and work together,\u2019 is that correct?\u201d Ernst asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, that is correct,\u201d Geer responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you believe civility is a fundamental aspect of your role on the Tennessee Valley board, if confirmed?\u201d Ernst asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI absolutely do, Senator,\u201d Geer replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, and thank you for answering those questions honestly,\u201d Ernst said. \u201cAnd I think it appears to be a recent sentiment, if you\u2019ll take a look at the tweet that we also found.\u201d A staffer pulled up a posterboard which showed a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bpa65\/status\/557744325124440064\">tweet<\/a> from Greer, replying to a tweet from Fox News asking viewers to comment on Ernst\u2019s response to former President Barack Obama\u2019s 2015 State of the Union address. \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">What did you think of <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">@SenJoniErnst<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u2018s <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">#GOPresponse<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> to <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">#SOTU<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">?\u201d the tweet asked. \u201cHideous,\u201d Geer replied, tagging both Ernst and Fox News. Geer has since locked her Twitter account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHideous,\u201d Ernst read aloud. \u201cCan you explain that tweet?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Geer said she could not read the text on the poster, adding that she was not trying to evade the question. Ernst read her the quote, after which Geer apologized. \u201cWell, I apologize if I offended you, and I appreciate you bringing it to my attention,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I do, in fact, believe that civility is key, and I\u2019m sorry that I did not demonstrate that, in your opinion, with that tweet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Committee Chairman Ed Markey (D-MA) had cut in earlier, noting that the time Ernst had been given by one of her colleagues yielding had expired, but he said that she could return to the questions during her time. She did return to the tweet during her allotted question time. \u201cMs. Geer, when you called me hideous, were you referring to my appearance, or to the views that I held and are held by many Americans across this country?\u201d she pressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, [I] was not calling you personally hideous and certainly not your appearance. And again, I apologize if it came across that way. I mean no disrespect,\u201d Geer replied.<\/p>\n<p>Ernst cut her off. \u201cHow else could this come across? The word hideous to me only has one meaning. And the views I expressed in my State of the Union response were personal experiences,\u201d she said. \u201cSo maybe you didn\u2019t appreciate that I grew up on a small, rural farm in an economically disadvantaged area of Iowa. Maybe you didn\u2019t like that my mother had to put bread bags on my shoes when I went to school. Maybe you didn\u2019t like that, but a lot of Americans have had the same experiences that I have had. And so, to call my personal views as hideous is an affront to half of America. So, I have no further questions for you, but I appreciate your time and attention today, but I think in a world that is begging for civility, we should give them that civility, and I don\u2019t know that you can bring that to this Tennessee Valley board.\u201d She told her colleagues that she would not support Geer\u2019s confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s important that we all work together, but when you\u2019re starting off on a foot like this, it\u2019s really hard for us all to work together,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. 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