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(85,998 posts)
Wed Dec 12, 2012, 12:28 PM Dec 2012

Ha! Late Jesse Helms Doesn't Rate Enough Posthumous Support To Put Name On A Post Office

tweeted by, PublicPolicyPolling@ppppolls

Both black (14/61) and white (36/44) North Carolinians oppose the Jesse Helms Post Office renaming: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2012/12/north-carolina-miscellany.html


-Only 31% of North Carolinians think the Post Office in downtown Raleigh should be renamed after Jesse Helms to 48% who are opposed. Both African Americans (14/61) and white voters (36/44) are against the renaming. Even among Republicans there's only 44% support for it, while Democrats are far more unified in their opposition (60%). Independents oppose it 28/47 as well.

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djean111

(14,255 posts)
4. I can't find a direct source, but I remember reading that Helms felt there was no rape if
Wed Dec 12, 2012, 12:40 PM
Dec 2012

a woman got pregnant as a result - because to get pregnant, a woman had to have an orgasm, so if she was pregnant, she must have had an orgasm. If she had an orgasm, she felt enjoyment. So therefore - no rape!
I heard this in the mid-eighties, when I lived in NC.


 

kooljerk666

(776 posts)
6. Dog Shit Bags Dispensers might be about right for this tool............
Wed Dec 12, 2012, 01:06 PM
Dec 2012

if some one hung his dired out carcass from a tree & treated it like a pinata, that might be appropriate too.

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
7. Jesse Helms was a STAIN in American political history.
Wed Dec 12, 2012, 01:12 PM
Dec 2012

He doesn't deserve to have a gas station restroom named after him. No legacy for Klan fuckers who make not-so-veiled, "IOKIYAR" threats against sitting Presidents. "Aw shux, that's jest Jessah bein' Jessah, no big deel . . ."

WI_DEM

(33,497 posts)
8. That old racist doesn't even merit a porta-potty named after him
Wed Dec 12, 2012, 01:27 PM
Dec 2012

He'll be a footnote in history about what was wrong with this country.

 

kooljerk666

(776 posts)
10. How bout a wooden sign for dog pisses w/Jesse pic @ the rest stops..............
Thu Dec 13, 2012, 10:03 AM
Dec 2012

put up a new one every week........................

like this........
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sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
11. I've only driven through N.Carolina (to get
Thu Dec 13, 2012, 10:11 AM
Dec 2012

to S.Carolina) but I seem to recall seeing some things named after him.I can't remember what,roads maybe?

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