Current Events > Republican Senator challenges Teamsters head to fistfight

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https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-11-15/oklahoma-senator-challenges-teamsters-head-fight

WASHINGTON A congressional hearing devolved into an angry confrontation between a senator and a witness Tuesday after Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma challenged the head of the Teamsters union to stand your butt up so they could settle longstanding differences right there in the room.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the chairman of the Senate panel holding the hearing, yelled at Mullin to sit down after he challenged Sean OBrien to a fight. Mullin had stood up from his seat at the dais and appeared to start taking his ring off.

This is the time, this is the place, Mullin told OBrien after reading a series of critical tweets that the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters had sent about him in the past. If you want to run your mouth, we can be two consenting adults. We can finish it here.

The two men never came face to face in the hearing room. But they hurled insults at each other for around six minutes as Sanders repeatedly banged his gavel and tried to cut them off.

You are a United States senator! Sanders shouted at Mullin at one point.

Sanders, a longtime union ally, pleaded with Mullin and OBrien to focus on the economic issues that were the subject of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing, which Sanders was holding to review how unions help working families.

More in the article, don't feel like posting it all.

I heard some audio of him on Sean Hannity where defended this by saying his constituents would be disappointed if he hadn't done this and it's "Oklahoman values"

Sean Hannity also made an asinine comment about how back when he was a kid people got into fistfights all the time, but that's no longer the case because of "woke".

It's called growing up, you shit for brains loser.