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Georgia House member loses post over John Lewis criticism

by Associated Press
| August 14, 2020 2:06 PM

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's House speaker on Friday took away a committee leadership post from a fellow Republican who said in a radio interview that the late U.S. Rep John Lewis' "only claim to fame was that he got conked on the head."

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