Senator David Johnson of Ocheyedan Iowa is a man without a political party and he’s threatening to sue his former Republican colleagues for the right to participate and vote on senate committees.
For the past 18 years, Johnson served in the legislature as a Republican. Johnson left the G-O-P this summer when Donald Trump became the party’s leader. Johnson’s arguing it’s time for a new working relationship among Republicans, Democrats and people like him who aren’t alligned with a party.
The Senate’s Republican leader says he has appointed Republicans to slots on committees he has the authority to fill, but if the Senate’s DEMOCRATIC leader wants to give a committee slot to the independent Johnson, that’s fine. Johnson says if he hadn’t changed his voter registration from Republican to “no party” in June, he would have done so in December.
This past week Johnson attended other committees he has been a member of in previous years to publicly make his case for continued membership on those panels.
