Area GOP leaders ask for Newhouse to resign
By Terry Murry on Tuesday, January 26th, 2021 in Columbia Basin News More Top Stories
KENNEWICK – Several Eastern Washington Republican leaders are calling for U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Sunnyside) to resign because he voted to impeach former President Donald Trump.
A letter asking Newhouse to step down is signed by the chairs of the Republican parties in Benton, Franklin, Yakima, Grant, Adams, and Douglas counties. Walla Walla and Okanogan counties’ GOP leaders did not sign the letter. It is not known if they were asked and refused.
“Though your service to the Fourth Congressional District has not gone unappreciated, your vote for impeachment was blatantly against the voters’ wishes,” the letter stated. “As a result, an overwhelming majority of our county constituents are calling for your resignation as our congressional representative.”
Yesterday, Newhouse issued a statement that said he was not resigning. The congressman who backed Trump and was an honorary chair of his reelection effort in 2020 in Washington said at the time that voting to impeach was not an easy decision, but it was based on his oath to support and defend the U.S. Constitution.
