Opinion

Cathy McMorris Rodgers claims it is “her mission to restore trust and confidence in representative government and the rule of law...,” but her support of Texas’ lawsuit to dismiss election results in key battleground states has damaged that trust.

Biden’s 4.5-point popular vote margin was decisive, although below what Fox polling projected. Pre-election, Republican FBI Director Christopher Wray praised states’ preparations; afterward, Republican Chris Krebs, Cybersecurity Agency head, pronounced the election "the most secure in American history." Officials in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Arizona, many of them Republicans, stoutly defended their states’ votes. All but one of Trump’s 50+ lawsuits were thrown out of court, often by Trump-appointed judges. The Supreme Court, with its 6-to-3 conservative majority, disdained hearing his case.

If Cathy McMorris Rodgers is going to do Trump's bidding and sign on to a frivolous lawsuit to overthrow a legitimate and validated election, you'd think she could get something for her blind loyalty: Like federal help for Malden.

What do we have to do to get Cathy Morris Rodgers fired and thrown in prison? After all she committed an act of treason when she and 105 other congressmen signed a bill to have the votes of four other states thrown out and Trump installed as president. This, by the U.S. Constitution , is an act of treason.

In record time a vaccine is here to help us through a health crisis. Our government took our tax dollars and hired pharmaceutical companies to create a vaccine at no risk to the companies. Their researchers used facts to create the vaccine. Now the vaccine will be given to everyone at no cost to the individual.

Like circus elephants moving in lock-step, joined trunk to tail, a large number of Republican (elephants) lawmakers (including "our” Cathy McMorris Rodgers) entered the main ring of the circus at the direction of the owner (Trump) and the ringmaster (McConnell).

“BIG MISTAKE.”

So here it is, weeks after the election and DJT still hasn't conceded. And he has also said he might not attend the swearing-in of Joe Biden. 126 Republican lawmakers, including our own CMR, signed on to a lawsuit brought by Texas. I am 60 years old and this is the dumbest and most disgusting thing I have seen from a president and other elected officials. Now there are riots in DC and over in Olympia. Come on people! Get a grip. Biden won. Trump lost. Democracy at work.

American citizens do not directly elect the president. Moreover, the presidential election in not a national one. It is a state-by-state election in which American citizens elect representatives in each state. These electors then meet and cast their states electoral votes to select which candidate will serve as president.

Seems odd the City Council can spend $400,000 for cars when the 4- or 5-year contract with the police is still outstanding. Arbitration will cost more than the $6 million that was in the budget for the contract. Probably closer to $10 million. But it is taxpayer money, not theirs. The citizens do not matter and as in the past, mob will rule the council. Seems high for an electric car. Mercedes cost less.

Spokane named a street after a local, historical, impactful person. Now 150+ years later, our emoting local city council, a council which is judging a historical act of almost 170 years ago, doesn't meet our 2020 values.

It happens every time our presidency is transitioning from one party to the other.

Once again our representative in Congress, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, has adopted her usual rubber stamp position and is advocating for Texas to be able to overturn the presidential election results IN OTHER STATES!

I write this after the U.S. Supreme Court, in a one-page memorandum decision issued Friday evening, summarily dismissed the frivolous lawsuit filed by Texas’s Republican attorney general and supported by seventeen other Republican attorneys general and 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives including our own Cathy McMorris Rodgers.

We have known for four years now that Donald Trump would rather be the head of state of a "banana republic," and has worked toward those ends. But an election stopped him.

Since the start of COVID-19, we have been put into isolation to limit the spread of the virus. A life that once was filled with people and social interactions is left with only faces on a computer screen. Concerned for everyone’s safety, people relied on social media to maintain relationships with their loved ones. Social Media provided a platform to feel connected and loved especially during this pandemic. The usage of social media skyrocketed as we received new information, emails and messages. Life with social media became a norm.

No words in English express my absolute disgust at Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ decision to sign on to President Trump’s deluded push to invalidate millions of votes. She took a vow to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”