The three Democratic members of the House of Representatives, Pappas, Hays and Gluesenkamp Perez, had the courage and integrity to join Republicans in a successful effort to censure “Squad” Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., for pulling the Cannon House Office Building’s fire alarm in September and, by extension, lying about it outrageously. Earning half-Ethics Hero status were Democratic Reps. Chrissy Houlahan and Susan Wild of Pennsylvania, Glenn Ivey of Maryland, and Deborah Ross of North Carolina, who all voted “present,” helping the Republican motion for censure to succeed. Although he should have been forced to resign, at least this was a public rebuke of Bowman making him the only the 27th lawmaker to be censured by the House out of thousands in four centuries.
That more Democrats couldn’t put aside party loyalty and their blind enabling of inexcusable conduct that violated both the law and House ethics rules is one more black mark on the party’s recent ethics record. Typically and nauseatingly, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. described Michigan GOP Rep. Lisa McClain’s censure motion this way: “We’re all on the House floor wasting time talking about fire alarms. Not the economy, not inflation, not affordable housing, not lowering costs, not the gun violence epidemic that continues to claim the lives of our young people all across America.” What a jerk.
The issue was not “fire alarms” but the ethical duties of members as high elected officials, representatives of their districts, lawmakers and exemplars of law-abiding conduct. Jeffries should have been leading the effort to rebuke Bowman. Leaders like him are why Bowman felt secure in behaving as he did.
Ethics Alarms 
Are we lowering the bar for ethics hero status. None voted with Republicans against their own they simply voted present to allow the measure to pass.
My take away is that these three can say they did not vote for the measure so that they do not piss off other party members.
I guess this is the best we can expect or hope for from partisans on either side.
No, the three he cites actually did vote for the censure resolution. It was the four ‘half-heroes’ that voted present — four Democrats and one Republican. Not sure how Jack would rate that Republican or, for that matter, there were apparently 20-25 representatives actually not there for the vote. It passed 214-191, so only 405 total voting plus the 5 present votes gives us 410 out of 434 or so.
I thought I read the 3 cited voted present
I see why: I referred to the three Democrats in the headline without naming them again, then named the four Democrats who voted “present.” My fault. I just clarified it.