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TexasTowelie

(112,217 posts)
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 03:49 PM Sep 2016

Bevin's bloodshed remark stirs impeachment call

FRANKFORT, Ky. – Gov. Matt Bevin's "bloodshed" comments last weekend provoked calls for an apology – and even Bevin's impeachment – on Tuesday from Democratic candidates who say the governor was inciting domestic violence.

"I'm here today to call for the impeachment of Gov. Matt Bevin. I believe his call to shed the blood of fellow Americans is unconstitutional and a violation of his sworn oath to uphold the laws of the commonwealth," said Nancy Jo Kemper, the Democratic nominee for Congress in Kentucky's 6th District, at a news conference in the Capitol Rotunda.

And Lexington Mayor Jim Gray, the Democratic Party candidate for the U.S. Senate, called on Bevin to admit he was wrong and apologize to the people of Kentucky. "Using religion as a tool of violence and frightening people has no place in politics. Frightened people do dangerous things, and encouraging fear and violence is absolutely wrong," Gray said in a statement.

During his speech at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., Bevin said he was asked recently whether he thinks it is possible to recover as a nation if Democrat Hillary Clinton is elected president.

Read more: http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2016/09/13/congressional-candidate-wants-bevin-impeached/90308344/

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Wow! Golden Raisin Sep 2016 #1

Golden Raisin

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1. Wow!
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 06:43 PM
Sep 2016

The good folks of Kentucky have seen fit to elect and gifted the rest of us with BOTH Matt Bevin AND Mitch McConnell.

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