The reviews are in and it looks like Derrick Van Orden’s constituents are ready to send him packing after his *latest* temper tantrum, this time accosting and getting “physically aggressive” toward high school Senate pages.
Keep reading to see what Wisconsinites are saying about Derrick Van Orden’s inappropriate behavior.
What we can say is this: With his vulgarity-laced threatening of Senate pages, Derrick Van Orden has shamed himself and Wisconsin by picking on innocent teenagers. Again.
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Van Orden’s failure to [apologize] gives voters in western Wisconsin all the information they need for making their choice in 2024. While the bar for maturity and self-control is low in the current Congress, Derrick Van Orden has stumbled beneath it.
Whether Van Orden is defeated in a Republican primary, or in next November’s general election, voters have good reason to conclude that a middle-aged man who keeps picking on teenagers has no place in the U.S. House of Representatives.
His conduct was, as Schumer called it, “utterly despicable.” But his failure to apologize, to the pages, House leadership, and the constituents he represents, is even more of an embarrassment.
Directing profane insults at any group is beneath the dignity of a member of Congress. Doing so to students who have worked hard to keep the Senate running was unacceptable. Van Orden owes the pages an apology.
Van Orden unfortunately may keep his House seat until the next election cycle. But next November he deserves to lose his seat and never hold public office again. He’s shown everyone he is unfit.
Please remember, come Nov. 5, 2024, to look elsewhere for a decent candidate to vote for and send a message to Junior Congressman Derrick Van Orden that his atrocious and disrespectful behavior will not be rewarded.
Why does he take offense to these young pages, who weren’t part of the assault that happened Jan. 6, 2021? That January, Van Orden was a “fellow traveler,” a fellow trespasser, of that mob of storm Trumpers that rioted, vandalized, even defecated in the U.S. Capitol. Van Orden was there that day, violating a trespassing ordinance. Did he express outrage then?
