The poster, at a table in the capitol's rotunda, featured an image of Muslim congresswoman Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, spliced next to one of the twin towers burning during the 9/11 attacks.
Mike Pushkin, a Democratic member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, told the Washington Post that he was in a morning committee meeting when someone sent him a picture of the poster. He later snapped and tweeted a picture of it after walking over to see it.
The body's sergeant of arms submitted a letter of resignation at the end of the day after being accused of making an anti-Muslim slur during the dispute, according to West Virginia Public Radio and other local outlets. A doorkeeper was reportedly injured during a dispute with a member over the doors to the chamber.
Many Republicans got up to speak about the First Amendment in response, according to West Virginia Public Radio."My issue with what I saw outside has to do with another truly American foundational issue, and that's freedom of speech," Republican delegate Dianna Graves said, it the radio station reported."So, while I may not agree with everything that is out there, I do agree that freedom of speech is something that we have to protect, even if we don't agree with it.
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