Hero Rep. Allen West told FOX News anchor Martha MacCallum today that there was “not a chance” that he would apologize to DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz for a heated email he sent her this week after she attacked him on the House floor.
Fox News reported the latest on the spat.
Rep. Allen West dug in his heels after congressional Democrats called on him to apologize for a heated email he sent to the Democratic Party chairwoman, adamantly denying reports that he had already done so.
West claims he was in his right to send fellow Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz an email Tuesday calling her “vile” and “not a lady,” in response to her criticism of him on the House floor.
“Don’t poke me in the chest, that’s the bottom line,” he told Fox Business Network on Thursday, adding that an apology is “not happening.”
His aides underscored that response following reports and audio tape that seemingly showed him backing off his original comments. In the tape, West could be heard telling a Huffington Post reporter: “I just apologized.”
It’s unclear what he was referring to — a West aide immediately shot down claims that he had apologized, calling them “absolutely false.” Wasserman Schultz likewise said she had not heard from West.
Both lawmakers claim they are now waiting for an apology from the other.
Ever since Col. West voted with the Black Caucus to approve payments to the Pigford II scam artists, sorry, but he has lost my confidence and my support, opinions shared by many other disappointed Republicans. (He has voted with Democrats on other legislation, too. But I can’t remember what it was. He is two-faced and deceptive, imo.)
I’m glad Rep. West has not apologized to Debbie W-S.
He has nothing to apologize for.
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As to his vote on Pigford, Rep. West did apologize about that.
Called it a mistake.
There were 41 amendments/riders on that bill.
Admitted he did not do enough due diligence on that whole bill.
If you ever watch C-SPAN you see that Reps do the same thing all the time!
Every vote has a few who have to come back and change their vote after someone asks them if that was what they meant to do.
Unfortunately no one asked Rep. West about this particular vote.
Sounds like, had anyone done so, he would have caught his mistake and corrected it.
It was good to hear that he was standing firm. But we could not help to notice that he did not have the type of suppport that the crazy lady had from her party. Nothing new there though. He is to be admired though to fight back with little or no support. But hes new to congress! And a new breed! Thats why!
I say it’s about time the Republicans started to “Push Back” as Colonel West did against the “Liberal Bullying” that has been so prevalent and supported by the Left.
How dare they spew their own intolerance, lies, propaganda and ‘bullying’ then ‘demand’ an apology when stood up to…
You go Colonel West!
@ Brian
There were around 40 amendments and they were all voted for in a lightning round. West says he screwed up. This is what Col. West had to say about it:
Col. West is an old war dog that Wasserman-Schultz has been poking with a stick for well over a year now. What kind of reprehensible woman, a sitting Congresswoman, organizes a protest outside of someone’s campaign office that she is not even running against? During her protest (remember, in front of his campaign headquarters) she said that West thought women were nothing more than “oral relief stations” a term I had to google to find where it came from (a nasty article in a biker magazine). Obviously, Wasserman-Schultz thinks that because West likes motorcycles, it is OK to lay some kind of label on him.
She is a despicable person. She recently said that Republican women want all women sent back to the back alleys for reproductive health care. She has a habit of saying obscene, absurd things and getting by with it. This time, when she poked the old war dog with the stick one too many times, he bit her.
She didn’t have the cajones to say her hateful things to his face. Instead, she waited until West had left the House chamber, and then blindsided him. That is her tactic. So he sent her a personal email telling her what a slug she is, and if she had anything to say to him, say it to his face, and she, in her moral indignation, decided to make that email public. Still, she hasn’t got the moral fiber to apologize for her back stabbing attack on Allen West.
Not too long ago, Wasserman Schultz said that if it had been up to the Republicans, we would all be driving foreign cars. Oooops, some enterprising reporter did a little digging and found out that Wasserman Schultz, who seems to be so supportive of giving billions of American taxpayer dollars to GM/Chrysler, that we will never get back, drives a very expensive foreign car.
OK, so where is the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and that idiot, Sheila Jackson Lee when a black congressman is attacked? Oh, that’s right, West is not part of the Keep The Blacks On The Democrat Plantation crowd, so what they have just proven is that race is only an important factor when it is a black Democrat that has been insulted.