To the editor:
President Biden’s extending an invitation to the two disruptive Tennessee legislators to visit the White House is disgraceful and an insult to state legislators who abide by the rules of their respective state houses.
The president’s ill-thought-out invitation sends the wrong message to our youth and those who might attempt the same unorthodox tactics.
The two legislators in question clearly broke the rules, and their disorderly conduct was inciting and could have provoked demonstrators to riot, resulting in the injury of other legislators and capital workers.
I would ask the president whether he condoned such actions when serving in the U.S. Senate.
I challenge him and others who condone such disorderly conduct to allow these two unruly legislators to use the same chaotic approach on the floor of our U.S. Congress.
One should have no doubt that they would be quickly expelled and denied reentry.
Matt Drozd, Lt. Colonel U.S. Air Force (ret)
Pittsburgh
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