House Speaker Mike Johnson had no idea Representative Ken Buck is quitting, as the GOP is in complete shambles.

House Speaker Mike Johnson had no idea Representative Ken Buck is quitting, as the GOP is in complete shambles.

Representative Ken Buck took to social media to announce his near-immediate leave from Congress, resigning so fast that even his party leaders were caught off guard by the decision.

“Today, I am announcing that I will depart Congress at the end of next week,” Buck said in a statement on Tuesday. “I look forward to staying involved in our political process, as well as spending more time in Colorado with my family.”

The less-than-two-weeks notice took practically everybody by surprise, including (or maybe especially) House Speaker Mike Johnson.

“I was surprised by Ken’s announcement,” Johnson told a crush of reporters inside the Capitol building. “I look forward to talking to him about that.”

“I didn’t know,” he added.

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    11·
    9 months ago

    Silly me. I assumed it was a Super Tuesday state that had already had their primary.

    To me, it sounds like the one who resigned is doing some real fancy footwork behind the scenes. If he’d already said he was stepping down he almost certainly had a successor in mind.

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    • 1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyzEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Are you a bot lol. Colorado is weird but it votes for president primary during Super Tuesday but other positions have their primary in June. I do think Ken buck resigned to make it as inconvenient as possible for boebert. The party gets to pick the candidate for the primary, and she has to resign to run. They could manipulate her into resigning and not pick her to run lol I do feel like he is intentionally trying to sabotage her

      • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
        11·
        9 months ago

        I’d like to chat with some Rocky Mountain State political junkies about the whole Bobo vs. Buck deal.

        Even if I were a hard core Tea Party MAGoo I’d be ashamed of Bobo’s antics, and would want her out.