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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsASTOUNDING! - GOP Pisses On The Inauguration & MLK DAY
Virginia GOP Pulls Dirty Trick On Inauguration Day01.21.2013 07:05 PM
A Footnote To The Virginia Senate Story
As mentioned earlier, seizing on the absence of a Democratic senator who happens to be a veteran of the civil rights movement and was in Washington, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, for the second inauguration of the countrys first black president, Republicans in the evenly split Virginia state Senate pushed through a surprise mid-decade redistricting plan to try to gain decisive control of the body in the next election.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/01/republicans-dirty-trick-inauguration.php?ref=fpnewsfeed
Were not done yet.
At the end of this wild day, the Senate adjourned in memory or (sic) General Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson, according to the minutes of the session. Jan. 21 is the Confederate generals birthday.
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ASTOUNDING! - GOP Pisses On The Inauguration & MLK DAY (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2013
OP
This can't be the end of this. If it is, this will get ugly real fast. Dems cannot continue to
politicaljunkie41910
Jan 2013
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Hard Assets
(274 posts)1. The mid-decade redistricting plan?
Rejected, and the Republicans will be ordered to go to an immediate psych evaluation for mental competence (Bet you 95% will fail)
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)2. man o man..the racism continues to run deep,it seems.
politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)3. This can't be the end of this. If it is, this will get ugly real fast. Dems cannot continue to
take this kind of crap sitting down.
RandiFan1290
(6,254 posts)4. What? No grand bargain or deal??
Enrique
(27,461 posts)5. Rachel will be all over this
hopefully McDonnell won't go along with this crap, in the interest of his national ambitions.
tarheelsunc
(2,117 posts)6. So, they adjourned for a guy who died fighting AGAINST the USA
They should be tried for treason. And to think that they're probably the same people who say the President is anti-American...