Dem lunges to grab gavel from GOP counterpart in HEATED Wisconsin Senate chamber

Democrats continue to exhibit unhinged, even violent behavior over the ongoing deportation of illegal immigrants, who were allowed to invade the country by the millions during the Biden administration.

Look no further than the state of Wisconsin, where an animated Democratic state Sen. Tim Carpenter lunged at the chairman’s gavel while calling his Republican colleagues “cowards.” The inappropriate behavior came as Carpenter argued against legislation that would bar public funds from paying for healthcare for illegal immigrants.

As the Democrat complained about “Operation Wetback,” a 1954 immigration law enforcement initiative under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican state Sen. Chris Kapenga, chairman of the Senate’s State and Federal Affairs Committee, banged the gavel in an attempt to keep the debate on track. At that moment, Carpenter stood up and made a grab for it.

After failing to secure the gavel, the Democrat cried, “I’m getting tired of you!” He then told Kapenga he was “too cowardly to let me speak… the truth about this situation.”

“If you have a specific question about their specific bill, you can ask it. But I’m not going to sit here and allow things outside the bill. That’s my job,” Kapenga replied.

“That’s BS, that’s BS! the Democrat whined.

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The GOP chairman spoke with Fox News afterwards and said he would not personally share the video of the exchange, citing concerns about political violence.

“I’m not sharing the video because this isn’t about embarrassing individuals. This is about choosing decorum and the use of measured words to persuade those of opposing opinion. Sharing stories with false information to incite fear, name-calling, and aggression,” Kapenga said.

(Carpenter spoke about a migrant woman who was deported and supposedly died after not being able to refill her prescription medication — but the truth is, the woman did not die.)

“We all know the dangerous place that’s leading society,” he added. “The upswell in the movement Charlie Kirk started shows Americans are passionate about the freedom to debate ideas, not rhetoric and violence.”

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