Freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has been in office less than three months, yet many politicians are calling for her exit — and this includes even those on her side of the aisle, Democrats.
Now comes news that Omar is under investigation for accusations she spent $6,000 in campaign funds for personal use.
“Authorities are expected to issue rulings in the next month to six weeks on two complaints filed last year with the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board against the Minnesota Democrat by Republican state lawmaker Representative Steve Drazkowski,” the National Review reported.
Drazkowski is claiming Omar used campaign funds to pay her divorce lawyer as well as to pay for travel to Boston and Estonia.
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Omar was one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress during the last elections and the first Somali-American to enter Congress. And, she is the first minority woman to serve as a U.S. representative from Minnesota. And it is a group of prominent Minnesota Democrats who want Omar out.
According to The Daily Caller, Minnesota Democrats were offended by Rep.Omar’s comments about Jews and Israel and are looking for someone to contest her nomination for the 2020 elections.
“There’s definitely some buzz going around about it, but it’s more a buzz of is anyone talking about finding someone to run against her than it is anyone saying they’re going to run against her or contemplate it,” Democratic state Sen. Ron Latz, whose district overlaps Omar’s federal constituency, told The Hill. “There’s definitely talk about people wanting someone to run against her.”
Omar’s words have come back to haunt her. “Omar has provoked accusations of anti-Semitism against her with her chiding of Israel, suggesting at one point that it had ‘hypnotized the world’ and prayed that Allah would ‘awaken’ it. She divided the Democratic Party last week over a resolution that was first meant to condemn anti-Semitism but became a reprimand against virtually every form of discrimination,” Star Political reported.
In February, Omar tweeted that support for Israel is “all about the Benjamins,” insinuating that the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC is buying off American politicians. She did later deleted the tweet and issued an apology.
“Just as that controversy was dying down, another began. Speaking on a panel with fellow Muslim Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, Omar, who’s also been criticized for a 2012 tweet about Israel, complained that claims of anti-Semitism are often used to shut down legitimate critiques of Israel,” New York Magazine reported.
