Crenshaw Responds to Critics After Missing First Congressional Votes for Navy SEAL Funeral: ‘Most Important’

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Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a Republican from Texas, pushed back against criticism and ‘toxic trolling’ he received after missing votes in the new 118th Congress, which officially began on Saturday but had its first legislative debates and votes earlier this week.

Political activist and failed congressional candidate Laura Loomer and others took to Twitter to call out the Texas lawmaker about his absence, which he admitted and unabashedly defended.

“Yeah Laura it was on purpose,” Crenshaw said in a tweet on Wednesday afternoon. “I flew to San Diego for the funeral of a friend and an active duty SEAL.”

He added: “Please delete your toxic and obsessive trolling if you don’t mind.”

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Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, is seen outside a House Republican Conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The tweet responded to Loomer, 29, who called Crenshaw a RINO [Republican In Name Only] and said he was “the ONLY Republican who skipped the vote” to form a new subcommittee.

“He also skipped the vote on the rules package,” Loomer added in the tweet. The rules vote is usually the first vote held after the body chooses a speaker and swears in new members, as it dictates how the members and the body will govern during the session.

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Loomer, who doesn’t shy away from controversy and later found herself banned from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Uber and PayPal, did not delete the post.

Instead, she doubled down in a tweet saying lawmakers “don’t have the luxury of skipping work for sick days, funerals or days off.”

Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a Republican from Houston, speaks in Austin, Texas, U.S., Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. (Jordan Vonderhaar/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Crenshaw defended his absence in response to another user, who also noted that lawmakers missed votes on the rules package and the creation of the new committee, which eventually passed and will investigate the militarization of the federal government under the Biden administration. .

“I missed a few votes this week because of the funeral in San Diego for my friend and fellow SEAL. Being with my brothers was just more important,” Crenshaw said.

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“Grateful that my obsessive Twitter trolls noticed my brief absence,” he continued in the tweet.

Crenshaw eventually returned to Washington, DC, to support the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which provides legal protections for any child born alive after an attempted abortion.

The bill, which eventually passed 220-210, states that the newborn child is recognized as a “legal person for all purposes under the laws of the United States.”

Physicians would then be required to care for the infant as “a reasonably diligent and conscientious medical professional would care for any other child born alive”.

Republican activist Laura Loomer shouts out to Twitter creator, co-founder and former chairman Jack Dorsey in Miami, Florida on June 4, 2021. (MARCO BELLO/AFP via Getty Images)

Michael Avenatti (L) and Laura Loomer at the Los Angeles Convention Center on October 20, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Philip Faraone/Getty Images for Politicon)

Republicans overwhelmingly supported the Born Alive Act and it was opposed primarily by Democrats, all but two of whom voted against.

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“Tonight we voted on the Born Alive Act. It’s absolutely uncontroversial to any normal person, but a firm NO from nearly every Democrat in Congress. It’s crazy,” Crenshaw tweeted Wednesday after -noon.

He added: “The Democrats are far too extreme on this issue and are NOT in tune with the American people. At all.”

The bill is unlikely to clear the US Senate, where Democrats hold a majority.

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Loomer ran for Florida’s 11th congressional district seat in 2022, but lost in the Republican primary. She also lost in 2020, after winning the Republican nomination for Florida’s 21st congressional district to incumbent Representative Lois Frankel, a Democrat, by a wide margin.

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