{"id":4531,"date":"2023-07-28T20:43:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4531"},"modified":"2023-07-28T21:20:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T21:20:45","slug":"media-trashes-van-orden-for-demanding-decorum-in-u-s-capitol-giving-constituents-beer-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4531","title":{"rendered":"Media Trashes Van Orden for Demanding Decorum in U.S. Capitol, Giving Constituents Beer & Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/van-orden-us-capitol\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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The news media and some Democrats are trashing U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, a Republican, for demanding decorum in the U.S. Capitol and for \u2013 shocker, here \u2013 serving beer and cheese to constituents he was hosting on a tour of his congressional office. <\/p>\n

They do realize he\u2019s from Wisconsin, right? <\/p>\n

\u201cI will not allow anyone to tarnish this House where we had Union soldiers die fighting to end slavery,\u201d Van Orden told talk show host Dan O\u2019Donnell<\/a>. \u201cI am not going to allow people to defile that. I will not.\u201d He also said the spot is where every President has lain in state. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not going to happen on my watch, man,\u201d said the former Navy SEAL.<\/p>\n

A reporter for the site \u201cPunchbowl News,\u201d Max Cohen, started the sideshow when he tweeted<\/a>, \u201cPer a source, here\u2019s a photo from last night of a bunch of alcohol in Van Orden\u2019s office. Van Orden and staff were heard partying loudly before he cursed out a group of teenage Senate pages.\u201d<\/p>\n

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How do you say you have never been to Wisconsin without saying you have never been to Wisconsin? <\/p>\n

Those were constituents, you must be a flat-lander. https:\/\/t.co\/S1sfFlWvQg<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Derrick Van Orden (@derrickvanorden) July 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Van Orden responded on Twitter, \u201cHow do you say you have never been to Wisconsin without saying you have never been to Wisconsin? Those were constituents, you must be a flat-lander.\u201d<\/p>\n

Punchbowl News\u2019 Jake Sherman also alleged<\/a> that Van Orden called the pages \u201clazy sh***\u201d because \u201cthey were in the Rotunda taking pictures on the floor. He told them to get the f*** up.\u201d Here\u2019s a fuller transcript: <\/p>\n

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We obtained a transcript of Rep. Van Orden cursing out Senate pages overnight in the Capitol Rotunda. The account was taken by a page who wrote down the remarks minutes after the incident:https:\/\/t.co\/0Xu1m93QhY<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/uaxdWWux6u<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Al Weaver (@alweaver22) July 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Actually, Van Orden was hosting constituents and visitors in his Congressional office, his spokeswoman says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest thing is that the Punchbowl reporter tweeted the photo here with the obvious implications and without asking for comment,\u201d said Van Orden\u2019s spokeswoman Anna Kelly, to WRN. \u201cDerrick is known for his tours of the Capitol where he hosts constituents and visitors from throughout the day. The \u2018staff partying loudly\u2019 were actually roughly 50 constituents and visitors who he hosted for beer, cheese, and beverages before heading out on the tour.\u201d<\/p>\n

Van Orden told O\u2019Donnell that Democrats were criticizing \u201ca Republican standing up for the integrity of the House of Representatives.\u201d O\u2019Donnell asked him about reports that Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had criticized Van Orden.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese folks are afraid of the fact that the Republican Party in the House of Representatives under Kevin McCarthy are getting things done,\u201d said Van Orden, adding that the controversy is \u201cstuff no one cares about.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually said, \u2018Get off my lawn,’\u201d Van Orden joked, saying he was misquoted.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople forget what that building means, and they\u2019re very happy to make national news and try to torpedo an entire political party when people defile the center of Democracy, which I agree with,\u201d Van Orden said. \u201cThat building means a lot more than people understand. The Capitol rotunda was a field hospital during the Civil War.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t even know how many countless Union soldiers, who were fighting to end slavery, died on that floor, where these young folks were lying down, you know, filming TikTok videos or whatever they were doing, at exactly the same spot where every president since that building was built has lied in state. All of them. When you see the shroud with a coffin on it, that\u2019s exactly where these young people were lying on the floor goofing off. I\u2019m just not going to accept that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Van Orden added that \u201cThe Democrat Party has nothing to talk about but this.\u201d He ticked off a list of Republican accomplishments recently, from passing a parents\u2019 bill of rights to terminating the COVID emergency to passing legislation to help secure the border. He said that he had recently proposed legislation to mitigate dam failures and help small and medium-sized dairies, among other measures. <\/p>\n

Contrary to false liberal narratives against him, Van Orden repeated that he was never inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. He pointed out that he immediately condemned those who broke the law and called for them to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. He was about 425 meters away from the building when the rioting first broke out, and he said he was so disgusted that he left. He condemned political violence on the left or right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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