North Dakota Democrat Oley Larsen has refused to resign his leadership position after controversial social media posts, despite being called upon by Democrats and Republicans to do so.
Democrats in North Dakota have called upon Republican State Senator Oley Larsen to resign after he admitted to spreading"fake news" on Facebook about Ilhan Omar, a Muslim Democratic Congresswoman from Minnesota.supports North Dakota Senate Majority Leader Rich Wardner's statement that Larsen should publicly apologize and resign from his position as interim president pro tempore of the state Senate. In their letter, the caucus refers to Larsen's behavior as"unbecoming.
Larsen, however, isn't budging. In a Facebook post which he labeled as an op-ed, he refused to apologize to Omar and stated that he would not resign. U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar arrives at a House Democratic Caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol September 25, 2019 in Washington, DC. House Democrats met to discuss their agenda one day after Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi has announced a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump."I'm sorry for spreading fake news," Larsen wrote."As an elected official, the public and the media are right to hold me to a higher standard.
"However," he continued,"I want to be clear, this is by no means an apology to Ilhan Omar." Larsen then listed examples of what he called Omar's"suspect behavior" and said that her"rhetoric can be more easily likened to that of the Grand Ayatollah of Iran than that of an American congresswoman." Op-Ed Larsen: Omar Isnât a Terrorist, Sheâs just Sympathetic to them.Last weekend, I shared an erroneous image...
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