{"id":1572154,"date":"2022-07-26T17:21:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T21:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1572154"},"modified":"2022-07-26T17:21:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T21:21:36","slug":"im-proud-damn-pround-ilhan-omar-ro-khanna-stand-by-staffers-arrested-in-schumers-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-proud-damn-pround-ilhan-omar-ro-khanna-stand-by-staffers-arrested-in-schumers-office\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m Proud. Damn Pround\u2019: Ilhan Omar, Ro Khanna Stand By Staffers Arrested In Schumer\u2019s Office"},"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%2Fim-proud-damn-pround-ilhan-omar-ro-khanna-stand-by-staffers-arrested-in-schumers-office%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=1572154&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>Democratic lawmakers sent messages of support for staff members who were arrested in Senate Majority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/charles-schumer\">Chuck Schumer\u2019s<\/a> (D-NY) office Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ilhan-omar\">Ilhan Omar<\/a> (D-MN) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) expressed support for members of their staff Monday, just hours after six House staffers were arrested for protesting in Schumer\u2019s office. Two of Khanna\u2019s staffers were among those arrested, along with a staffer for Omar. Omar herself was arrested last week as part of a planned \u201ccivil disobedience\u201d protesting the overturning of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/roe-v-wade\"><em>Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not just supportive of the staff who protested for climate action today, including my own. I\u2019m proud. Damn proud,\u201d Omar tweeted Monday evening, including a link to the Axios article that broke the story.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I\u2019m not just supportive of the staff who protested for climate action today, including my own. I\u2019m proud. Damn proud.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Wt5utV3Gf6\">https:\/\/t.co\/Wt5utV3Gf6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN\/status\/1551712785289068545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Omar was one of 17 members of Congress arrested last week outside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/supreme-court\">Supreme Court<\/a> as part of a planned \u201ccivil disobedience\u201d protesting the Court\u2019s decision in\u00a0<em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em>, which overturned\u00a0<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>. Omar attracted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/aoc-omar-mocked-for-pretending-to-get-handcuffed-at-protest-the-queen-of-gestures\">mockery<\/a> to herself, along with fellow Democrat and left-wing \u201cSquad\u201d member Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> (D-NY), for pretending to be handcuffed while being led away from the protest by Capitol Police.<\/p>\n<p>Omar was mocked again after she took a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ridiculous-attention-seekers-twitter-blows-up-when-cori-bush-celebrates-arrest-with-empowering-selfie\">group photo<\/a> with AOC and fellow \u201cSquad\u201d members Reps. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/rashida-tlaib\">Rashida Tlaib<\/a> (D-MI), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ayanna-pressley\">Ayanna Pressley<\/a> (D-MA), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/cori-bush\">Cori Bush<\/a> (D-MO). Another Congressman, Michigan Rep. Andy Levin (D-MI), was mocked online for wearing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/is-that-prison-mike-dem-congressman-mocked-for-wearing-bandana-like-the-office-character\">bandana<\/a> on his head like the character Michael Scott in an episode of \u201cThe Office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Khanna expressed similar sentiments to Omar, sending support for his staffers who were arrested. \u201cI stand in solidarity with all of the staffers, including those in my office, who peacefully protested for climate action today,\u201d Khanna tweeted from his official Congressional account, linking to the same article. \u201cProtecting our planet is not a radical idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I stand in solidarity with all of the staffers, including those in my office, who peacefully protested for climate action today. Protecting our planet is not a radical idea. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qjF20tyk5B\">https:\/\/t.co\/qjF20tyk5B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Ro Khanna (@RepRoKhanna) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepRoKhanna\/status\/1551689289544630272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Capitol Police arrested the staffers Monday after they refused to leave Schumer\u2019s office. \u201cSix demonstrators were arrested for DC Code \u00a722-3302 <em>Unlawful Entry\u00a0<\/em>for failing to leave the office after they were told to leave,\u201d police said in a statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/capitol-police-arrest-house-staffers-for-protesting-climate-change-in-schumers-office\">The\u00a0Daily Wire<\/a>. \u201cThe six people who were arrested are all House staffers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The six staffers arrested were: Saul Levin, the son of Rep. Levin and a staffer for Rep. Bush; Aria Kovalovich and Emma Preston, who are both staffers for Khanna; Rajiv Sicora, a staffer for Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY); Courtney Koelbel, a staffer for Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD); and Phillip Bennett, a staffer for Omar.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the staffers tweeted photos of themselves in Schumer\u2019s office. \u201cBREAKING: Congressional staff are staging a peaceful sit-in in @SenSchumer\u2019s office to protest our leaders\u2019 failure and inaction on climate policy and urge them to use every last negotiating tool to meet this moment,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ariakov\/status\/1551585454289461251\/photo\/1\">Kovalovich<\/a> tweeted Monday. \u201cThe time to act is NOW. Staffers, come through.\u201d Kovalovich also posted pictures of the staffers seated in the office with a large banner that says \u201cKeep negotiating, Chuck,\u201d and other signs that read \u201cClimate Policy Now!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, we Hill staffers are peacefully protesting Dem leaders INSIDE,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saaaauuull\/status\/1551587834666024960\">Levin<\/a> tweeted. \u201cTo my knowledge, this has never been done. We\u2019ve also never seen climate catastrophe, so we\u2019re meeting the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schumer had previously been negotiating a climate and spending package with Democrats, but talks fell apart after moderate Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) voiced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democrat-senator-throws-another-wrench-into-bidens-agenda-biden-is-not-pleased\">opposition<\/a> to the package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic lawmakers sent messages of support for staff members who were arrested in Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer\u2019s (D-NY) office Monday. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) expressed support for members of their staff Monday, just hours after six House staffers were arrested for protesting in Schumer\u2019s office. Two of Khanna\u2019s staffers &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1575840,"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-1572154","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\/1572154","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1575840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}