Rep. Julie Brixie’s walk to work just got 1,000 yards longer after House Speaker Matt Hall passed down punishment for her vandalism against a Republican colleague last week, Michigan Enjoyer has confirmed.
At this juncture, the punishments are indefinite, said a House source familiar with the details of Brixie’s punishment. No time frame or terms have been set.
In addition to Brixie’s exile from the House Office Building garage to the (somewhat) nearby Townsend parking structure, Hall won’t acknowledge her requests to speak on the House floor.
That’s due to a blatant lie Brixie told on the House floor to get Rep. Matt Maddock’s attention, the source said.
Brixie called for her colleagues’ attention and said that a vehicle with Maddock’s license plate number had its hood open, its lights on, and its engine running.
Rather than flee the House floor during session to check it out, Maddock alerted the House sergeant-at-arms, and that’s when it was discovered: Maddock’s vehicle was Saran-wrapped.
But there was no hood open, no lights on, and no engine running, as Brixie had reported.
Security footage from the parking garage showed Brixie, clad in a tan suit, wrapping Maddock’s vehicle in plastic, in what she would call a “prank.” So not only had Brixie vandalized a colleague’s vehicle, she told a lie on the House floor.
An aide looked on and recorded Brixie on her phone.
That aide who accompanied Brixie had been allowed to park her bike in the House parking structure in a special arrangement pre-dating Hall’s speakership. That arrangement will now end, though she will be allowed to use the common bike racks.
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