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U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, a Democrat from western Wisconsin, claimed COVID-19 prevented him from traveling to Washington D.C. to vote on major bills but still found a way to eat ice cream in La Crosse with President Joe Biden. "While millions of Wisconsinites went to work on Tuesday, Ron Kind played hooky from his responsibilities in Washington -- claiming that he had to miss House votes because of COVID when he was actually getting ice cream with Joe Biden," the state of Wisconsin Republican Party said in a statement, releasing the above photo. In a letter to Congress , Kind wrote, on June 28, 2021, “Pursuant to House Resolution 8, I write to notify you of the designation of a proxy to cast my vote. I am unable to physically attend proceedings in the House Chamber due to the ongoing public health emergency, and I hereby grant the authority to cast my vote by proxy to the Honorable Gerry Connolly (VA), who has agreed to serve as my proxy.” https://twitter.com/UrbanScootsEbay/

"For my brothers and sisters who served in Afghanistan, they did their duty, and they need to hold their head up high and walk with pride" - Derrick Van Orden Derrick Van Orden , the Republican Congressional candidate who is running for Ron Kind's soon-to-be-vacant seat, is slamming what he calls President Joe Biden's "incompetence" in exiting Afghanistan, calling Biden's approach a disaster and the "largest foreign policy debacle in the U.S. in my lifetime and that includes Vietnam." Van Orden called Biden's botched exit from Afghanistan the "greatest example of incompetency we have seen in the executive branch certainly in my lifetime. If you tried to do this worse, you would be hard-pressed...There's no way you can look at this from any angle and say this ship has a rudder." In 2020, Derrick Van Orden gave Democrat Kind the fight of his political career, losing by only 11,000 votes. Van Orden then announced a rematch