Ted Cruz is fed up with Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown’s antics. Monday night the Ohio Democrat senator hounded Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan for not wearing a mask while presiding over a Senate meeting. While Dan Sullivan presided over the Senate floor Brown asked that he put on a mask as he speaks
Cruz tweeted about the incident calling Brown’s comment an “Ostentatious sign of fake virtue.”
This is idiotic. @SherrodBrown is being a complete ass. He wears a mask to speak—when nobody is remotely near him—as an ostentatious sign of fake virtue.@DanSullivan_AK was over 50 feet away, presiding. Last I checked 50 feet is more than 6 feet. https://t.co/BoIGrAV7T1
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) November 17, 2020
In a report from The Daily Wire:
Brown sniped at Sullivan, “I’d start by asking the presiding officer to please wear a mask, as he speaks and people below him are — I can’t tell you what to do but I know that behavior—”
Sullivan interjected, “I don’t wear a mask when I’m speaking, like most senators. I don’t need your instruction.”
Brown then suddenly turned to attacking President Trump: “I know you don’t need my instruction, but there clearly isn’t much interest in this body in public health. We have a president who hasn’t shown up at the coronavirus task force meeting in months.”
“We have a majority leader that calls us back here to vote on an unqualified nominee and at the same time to vote for judge after judge after judge exposing all the people who can’t say anything,” Brown continued. “I understand. The people in front of you and the presiding officer and expose all the staff here and the majority leader just doesn’t seem to care.”
Democrats have come under fire for vocally pushing for strict Coronavirus protocols and then playing by their own rules. Nancy Pelosi received swift backlash after being caught without a mask inside a California hair salon while COVID-19 restrictions clearly said that appointments may only take place outside.
