Greene has promoted antisemitic and white supremacist views including the white genocide conspiracy theory , [ 7 ] [ 8 ] QAnon , and Pizzagate. On February 4, , the U. House of Representatives voted to remove Greene from all committee roles in response to her endorsements of political violence.
Eleven Republicans joined unanimous Democrats in the vote. In statements made in [ 39 ] and in a February 4, House floor speech, Greene explained her position on gun rights and school shootings. In those remarks, she alluded to being affected by a September incident at her high school in which an armed student held 53 students hostage for over five hours. In , Greene's father sold Taylor Commercial, an Alpharetta, Georgia -based general-contracting company that he had founded, to Greene and her then-husband, Perry.
By , Greene worked as a part-time coach at an Alpharetta CrossFit gym. Greene left the business in early Greene has said that she became politically engaged during the Republican Party presidential primaries. Greene was a top official of the Family America Project, a conservative group founded in January She was a moderator of the organization's Facebook group. In that group, members posted death threats against Democrats; bigotry directed at the Obamas ; and support for multiple conspiracy theories, including claims associated with the John Birch Society about the U.
In February , Greene visited the U. Capitol and congressional offices. She also asserted that Ocasio-Cortez should "get rid of [her] diaper". Having originally announced her intention to run in Georgia's 7th congressional district , [ 47 ] Greene instead began her campaign in the 6th district , where she resided, on June 4, She steps down from seats that she does win so she can campaign for something else. Basically I would call her [a] professional campaigner, but she loses. On December 13, , Greene announced that she was shifting her campaign to the 14th district after incumbent Tom Graves announced he would not run for reelection there.
Members of the House are constitutionally required to live in the state they represent, but not necessarily in the same congressional district. Still, she said she intended to move to the 14th if she ran there. Greene campaigned as a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump but was not endorsed by him.
