It\u2019s been a rough week for Maria Chappelle-Nadal, a Missouri state senator who hasn\u2019t learned the first rule of social media: Don\u2019t post anything you wouldn\u2019t want your employer to see.<\/p>\n
In this case, her employer is the government (and thus the citizens of her state, by proxy) \u2013 and they\u2019re not too happy that she expressed a desire for President Trump\u2019s assassination on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n She\u2019s since deleted the comment, but as you\u2019re well aware, the internet never forgets. The Secret Service is investigating her, her office is refusing to answer phone calls, and her Twitter account is mindlessly retweeting people who are \u201cstanding with Maria.\u201d Her supporters are a visible minority among the waves of criticism she\u2019s receiving.<\/p>\n She\u2019s made it clear that she has no intention of resigning despite the overwhelming criticism \u2013 but as it turns out, she may not have much of a choice.<\/p>\n Missouri Lt. Gov. Mike Parson informed a state Democratic lawmaker who threatened President Trump\u2019s life to resign by September 13 or the state Senate will move to expel her.<\/p>\n Parson, a former sheriff who also serves as the president of Missouri\u2019s State Senate, pointed to a section of the Missouri Constitution that relates to penalties for lawmakers guilty of \u201ccontempt and disorderly conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n According to\u00a0The Springfield News Leader,<\/a>\u00a0Parson stipulated that Chappelle-Nadal must resign by \u00a0September, the date of the upcoming veto session, or deal with expulsion from the Senate.<\/p>\n Missouri Democratic and Republican lawmakers called for her to resign from her seat, including most recently\u00a0Democratic Missouri Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Democrats have already lost a TON of state and federal posts, including congressional and state legislative seats, governor seats, and the presidency under the tenure of Barack Obama. Since Trump took office, we\u2019ve seen Democrats lose every single special congressional election, and even another governor seat as West Virginia\u2019s\u00a0Jim Justice switched parties<\/a> to become a Republican.<\/p>\n And with the inevitable firing of Nadal \u2013 we can tack up yet another victory.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s been a rough week for Maria Chappelle-Nadal, a Missouri state senator who hasn\u2019t learned the first rule of social media: Don\u2019t post anything you wouldn\u2019t want your employer to see. In this case, her employer is the government (and thus the citizens of her state, by proxy) \u2013 and they\u2019re not too happy that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6590,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587\/revisions\/6590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n