Black Hollywood producer who backed Greene thinks she has gone too far

He’s written a book about “God’s Plan” inspired by Donald Trump and donated thousands to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s campaign and a political action committee that supports her. But now one of the conspiracy-loving Georgia Republican’s big-dollar donors is turning his back on her.

Alander Pulliam, a Los Angeles-based producer behind the forthcoming ’90s TV spinoffs Family Still Matters and Black Rugrats, says he initially supported Greene but that the QAnon-friendly congresswoman, who drafted articles of impeachment for President Joe Biden the day he took office, has gone too far.

“Once Trump left office and Joe Biden came in, at that moment you should’ve moved on and let it go,” Pulliam told The Daily Beast in an interview. “It’s like a temper tantrum and I don’t want to be a part of someone throwing a temper tantrum. Let it go, move on, grow up. You’re a grown woman.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greenes-hollywood-backer-finally-thinks-shes-gone-too-far?ref=home

Greene supports carrying weapons on the House floor 

A NYT article reminding of the days days when weapons were carried on the floor of Congress 

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THE announcement that Representatives Heath Shuler of North Carolina and Jason Chaffetz of Utah are planning to wear guns in their home districts has surprised many, but in fact the United States has had armed congressmen before. In the rough-and-tumble Congress of the 1830s, 1840s and 1850s, politicians regularly wore weapons on the House and Senate floors, and sometimes used them. 

During one 1836 melee in the House, a witness observed representatives with “pistols in hand.” In a committee hearing that same year, one House member became so enraged at the testimony of a witness that he reached for his gun; when the terrified witness refused to return, he was brought before the House on a charge of contempt. 

Perhaps most dramatic of all, during a debate in 1850, Senator Henry Foote of Mississippi pulled a pistol on Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri. (Someone eventually took it from his hand.) Foote had decided in advance that if he felt threatened, he would grab his gun and run for the aisle in the hope that stray shots wouldn’t hit bystanders. 

Most famously, in 1856, Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina caned Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts on the Senate floor so brutally that Sumner had to be virtually carried from the chamber — and did not retake his seat for three years. Clearly, wielded with brute force, a cane could be a potent weapon.

By the 1850s, violence was common in Washington. Not long after Sumner’s caning, a magazine told the story of a Michigan judge who traveled by train to the nation’s capital: “As he entered the main hall of the depot, he saw a man engaged in caning another ferociously, all over the room. ‘When I saw this,’ says the judge, ‘I knew I was in Washington.’”

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/opinion/12freeman.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article