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GOP Sen. Says He Could Have Beat Up Hearing Witness if Not for ‘Political Correctness’ (www.rollingstone.com)

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Sen. Markwayne Mullin blamed “political correctness” for the uproar over his attempt to fight a witness during a Senate hearing.

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[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 5 points 11 months ago

Looking at his Wikipedia page it seems like this has been an on going thing with these 2.

On March 8, 2023, Mullin accused Teamsters president Sean O'Brien of "intimidation" during a Senate HELP Committee hearing on the PRO Act, claiming that O'Brien was forcing union members to pay dues and alleging that union leaders had attempted to unionize his plumbing business

On June 26, 2023, Mullin challenged O'Brien to a fight for charity via Twitter in response to an earlier tweet from O'Brien.

On November 14, 2023, when O'Brien again appeared before the committee, Mullin challenged him to fight, saying, "you want to run your mouth? We can be two consenting adults, we can finish it here" and demanding that O'Brien "stand [his] butt up".

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 4 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin ran to Fox News to explain that, despite his best efforts to throw down in the middle of a Senate hearing, “political correctness” is what stopped him from beating up a witness.

On Tuesday, Mullin stood up during a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee and made a move to physically fight Teamsters President Sean O’Brien, a witness before the committee with whom he’s been feuding for months.

During an interview with Sean Hannity, the Fox News host reminisced to Mullin about his rough and tumble youth.

“I don’t think there was a single day that we were playing sports where we didn’t drop the gloves or, you know, have a brief interlude of, you know, throwing fists and it would be all be over,” Hannity said, asking Mullin when society had become so “woke” that fist-fights are no longer an acceptable solution to conflict.

The senator added that if he hadn’t challenged O’Brien to a fist-fight in the middle of his workday “the people of Oklahoma would have been pretty upset” with him.

In another interview Mullin gave on Tuesday to the Undaunted Life podcast the Senator said, unprompted, that he’s “not afraid of biting” his opponent in a fight.

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[-] mack7400@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Fellas, is the Constitution woke?

[-] Iwasondigg@lemmy.one 1 points 11 months ago

Can't wait for the Southpark where PC Principal goes to congress.

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