The allure of Chicago green on St. Patrick’s Day is apparently enough for downstate Republican U.S. Rep. Mary Miller to overcome her fears of a city she has described as a “war zone.”
That speech came a day before the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection attempt at the U.S. Capitol. Chris Miller attended the “Save America Rally,” where Trump spoke and helped instigate the deadly but unsuccessful attempt to overturn the Electoral Vote count that formally made Democrat Joe Biden president.
In a social media video, Chris Miller said Trump supporters were “engaged in a great cultural war to see which worldview will survive. Whether we will remain a free people under free market capitalism or whether they will put us under the tyranny of socialism and communism and dangerous Democrat terrorists.”condemning Miller for standing with the insurrectionists but a legislative inspector general investigation concluded that his remarks did not constitute “conduct unbecoming a legislator.
Chris Miller has been a co-sponsor of legislation calling for Chicago to be separated into its own state and has led separatist rallies in downstate communities.US Rep. Mary Miller’s ‘white life’ comment is latest controversy in her short two years in CongressMary Miller, who was born and raised in Naperville, was endorsed by Trump last year in her primary victory against five-term Republican U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis of Taylorville.
resort in Florida. She’s also featured far-right U.S. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Lauren Boebert of Colorado at fundraising events.
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