Democrat demands apology from Van Orden after SOTU outburst

[a kennedy]

1. This dope has a history of yelling.......remember him swearing and yelling

at the Senate Pages????

Representative Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin didn’t get to Congress by being a timid guy. After using campaign funds to travel to the Stop the Steal rally, the Republican was seen in a restricted area on the Capitol grounds on January 6. After carrying a loaded handgun in his carry-on in an Iowa airport, he ran his successful campaign for the House under probation.

In that light, the controversies surrounding him this week shouldn’t come as a total surprise. In the wee hours of Thursday morning, a group of teenage Senate pages were resting on the ground in the Capitol rotunda — which is a regular occurrence when a session goes late. When Van Orden walked by, he went full get-off-my-lawn mode. “Wake the fuck up you little shits,” he said, according to one of the pages who spoke to The Hill. “What the fuck are you all doing? Get the fuck out of here. You are defiling the space you pieces of shit.” Van Orden asked, “Who the fuck are you?” When a teenager said they were pages, he said, “I don’t give a fuck who you are. Get out.” According to Punchbowl News, which broke the story, Van Orden was drinking in his office prior to berating the teens. (A spokesperson for Van Orden says he was hosting one of his regular “beer and cheese” tours for constituents.)

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/07/rep-van-orden-defends-cursing-out-no-good-teens-at-capitol.html