“I’m embarrassed to be from her district,” says a resident of Rome, Georgia
In a deep dive into the unlikely possibility that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) will lose her seat in November, some voters in her highly conservative district expressed dismay that they have to admit that she is their representative in Congress.
According to the Guardian’s David Smith, reporting from the controversial lawmaker’s hometown of Rome, Georgia, MTG —as the House member is commonly referred to — is a heavy favorite to retain her seat in Congress in a district dotted with Confederate flags where “Three in four people are white and three in four voted for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.”
According to two-term city commissioner Wendy Davis, Greene slipped into office because no one asked the hard questions.
“Local Republican officials here are said to be privately dismayed by Greene’s antics since she took her seat in Congress, which have included calling for Joe Biden’s impeachment and prison visits to rioters arrested after the January 6 insurrection. Mirroring their national counterparts’ deference to Trump, however, they mostly remain silent in public,” he wrote.
https://www.salon.com/2022/10/09/in-marjorie-taylor-greenes-hometown-are-embarrassed-by-her_partner/