Two more members of Congress may be forced to resign next week or face votes for their expulsion, U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Florida, says.
She, U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-SC, and others have called for the expulsion of four members of Congress: Democrats Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick and Eric Swalwell and Republicans Tony Gonzales and Cory Mills.
Slalwell and Gonzales have resigned; Cherfilus-McCormick and Mills have not.
Luna and Mace have led the charge for the entire Jeffrey Epstein files to be released, for transparency of taxpayer money used by members of Congress to settle sexual harassment claims, and for those who’ve engaged in sexual harassment of staff to be expelled from Congress, The Center Square has reported.
Cherfilus-McCormick, a Florida Democrat, was found guilty of 25 ethics charges. She also is accused of stealing $5 million in FEMA funds from taxpayers. Mills, a Florida Republican, has been accused of assaulting women, profiting off federal contracts and inflating or falsifying his military service record.
Luna said expulsion votes for the two Floridians could happen as early as next week. “I don’t think the Democrats are going to vote to protect her,” she said of McCormick. “In fact, I know they won’t. The votes are there.”
She also referred to a House Ethics Committee report “that I’m finding is pretty alarming” the she said is before House Speaker Mike Johnson about Mills.
Lake County Commissioner Anthony Sabatini said the House Ethic Committee is “about to drop the hammer on Cory Mills – the guy who fabricated his entire military record, was ordered by a judge to stop stalking a young girl 4 months ago, & is currently under investigation for 3 other violations.” Mills denies the allegations.
Last fall, Mace forced a censure vote against Mills, which failed by a vote of 310-103. Mills has said Mace’s claims are “baseless, recycled, and already publicly disproven. I fully deny them, just as I always have. This is not oversight, it’s attention-seeking dressed up as accountability.”
“No member of Congress, Republican or Democrat, is above accountability. No exceptions,” Mace said. “We don’t care what party you’re in. Stealing millions in taxpayer dollars, sexually assaulting your staff, lying about your service record, none of it is acceptable and none of it goes unnoticed.”
“Dropping out of a race is not accountability,” she said, referring to Swalwell and Gonzales. “The American people deserve a Congress worthy of their trust. The House needs to be cleaned out, and it starts with these four,” again demanding the remaining two resign or be removed from office.
On Tuesday, Swalwell resigned from Congress and dropped his gubernatorial bid after the San Francisco Chronicle reported he was accused of sexually assaulting a former staffer.
Gonzales also resigned from Congress on Tuesday ahead of an expected vote in the House to expel him. This was after the San Antonio Express News reported on a second sexual harassment allegation made by his campaign staffer. The first allegation Gonzales denied for months but ultimately acknowledged it was true, resulting in House leadership demanding he drop out of his race but not resign, The Center Square reported. A House Ethics Committee investigation had also been launched into Gonzales. He resigned before it was published.
