Black Nebraska lawmaker shames Republicans: Jesus ‘looked more like me than you all’

[kpete]

At one point, Chambers noted that Jesus “looked more like me than you all.”

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Sen. Ernie Chambers (I) shut down the legislative process for hours on Wednesday with his filibuster of Christensen’s Legislative Bill 52, which allows inmates at the McCook Work Ethic Camp to provide labor for “any charitable, fraternal, or nonprofit corporation.”

During his hours-long filibuster, Chambers blasted former Republican Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy, who recently resigned after a paper revealed that he had made thousands of phone calls to women who were not his wife. Chambers was also critical of the Nebraska attorney general because he let former Sen. Brenda Council (D) off with a misdemeanor after she gambled more than $63,000 in campaign funds at casinos.


“Sheehy and Council commit crimes but aren’t charged,” Chambers said, noting that “some scruffy person” would not be so lucky, according to the Nebraska Watchdog.

“Why shouldn’t Sheehy be sentenced to do some free labor?” he wondered. “It would teach him good work habits, and it would let him know that crime of any kind doesn’t pay.”





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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/21/black-nebraska-lawmaker-shames-republicans-jesus-looked-more-like-me-than-you-all/

[Laelth]

1. k&r for justice and right action. n/t

-Laelth

[Brickbat]

2. Dude filed suit against God many years ago.

He is, as they say, the angriest black man in Nebraska.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Well alrighty then!

[freshwest]

4. Good going. Glad he's there to stop them.

[central scrutinizer]

5. I love Ernie Chambers! Hard to believe he is still there fighting!

I moved out of Nebraska in 1972 and he was a gadfly back then. Great to see that even 40 years later he is still at it. Go Ernie! (damn - that must mean I am getting old)

[Matariki]

6. "McCook Work Ethic Camp"???? WTF???

Where are we heading with this? Arbeit macht frei?