Meet Tom Emmer: lawyer, hockey player, father of seven and the new House majority whip

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The new House Majority Whip, Tom Emmer of Minnesota, is used to playing in barnburners as he takes the reins from now-House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La.

, R-Minn., is an attorney, former hockey player and coach, a father of seven, and the number three GOP lawmaker in the House this Congress. He took the reins from now-House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La.

"And we literally started because I recognized you've got all these competing entities, much like you have in Congress," Emmer said."I had to become a member of the local Youth Hockey board. Then I had to become a member of the board that ran the ice arena, so we could control our own ice time." The whip said his wife was"devastated" by the development because you"just don’t get stuff like that in town" and Emmer called the mayor, a farmer, who drove to the congressman’s property at 10 p.m."in his old, beat-up Cadillac Fleetwood" and put his lights on the trees.

The Minnesota Republican said that, when it comes to policy, for him"it’s all about Main Street business, mom-and-pop businesses all across this country." Emmer said that McCarthy"got himself elected speaker of the House" and that all he and other GOP leaders did during the election was to"make sure that people who are committed to conservative commonsense approaches" could"all get in the room together and talk about what they wanted."

"I think those are the priorities, but I'm not going to step on Kevin McCarthy's toes," the whip continued."He's got the Commitment to America. We're going to honor those promises. And our job here at the whip team is to make sure that we can perform." "Why wasn't that disclosed to the American public when it was discovered two weeks before the election, before the midterm? Why did we hold on to it again?" Emmer said."What is going on around here that people seem to be politicizing all of this for purposes of elections, protecting one side of the equation and frankly, holding the other side to a different standard."

Emmer recalled words from an old professor of his when asked for his advice for people looking to get politically involved:"the world is run by those who show up." He also recalled his wife’s encouragement of him to run for Minnesota state House in 2004.

 

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Meet Tom Emmer, lobbyist posing as a cowardly Congressman. Tom Emmer is best known in his home state for his DUI and thinking waitresses make a 100k a year. He hates poor people and the working class.

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