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Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) yelled at a House staffer after catching her riding on a "members only" elevator, The Hill reports.
Said Foxx: "This is a 'members-only' elevator; can you read?. Get out here. What does this sign say? It says, 'Members of Congress only.'"
The staffer attempted to point out that the sign next to it stated, "during votes," which is when Foxx started yelling, "Members only!" as she pointed to signs.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/12/06/foxx_chews_out_staffer_on_elevator.html
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)dictionary definition of Hag.
Even Spongbob has her down pretty pat:
sinkingfeeling
(51,460 posts)Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)She had like 65% of the vote. She cruised.
about beating her. Her District is 88 percent white and mostly rural Districts in North Carolina. She comes from Burr's old District. She is anti-Gay and anti Civil Rights. I wonder whose staffer she was yelling at?
BlueCollar
(3,859 posts)avebury
(10,952 posts)be posted online for posterity.
Blunt477
(25 posts)CitizenLeft
(2,791 posts)...when I saw the headline, I immediately thought of her.
longship
(40,416 posts)She's photogenic, too.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Not me
Atticus
(15,124 posts)We shaved his butt and taught him to walk backwards.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)Cresent City Kid
(1,621 posts)I'm not going to post the comeback I just thought of, let's just say it would sound best in a New York accent.
It is said that politics is showbiz for ugly people, but this is ridiculous.
ROBROX
(392 posts)This person is truly supported by those who are not part of this century or society. This person is a true reflection of those people who are filled with pure evil and hate. It will be a long time before this type of person is eliminated from our society since they care all home grown. The sad fact that the red states promote people with this mindset means that theses areas are not civil for minorities or progressive people who what to progress versus regress.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)...reports the b**** to a congressional ethics committee, and demands an apology from b**** Foxx.
LiberalFighter
(50,950 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Rep. Virginia Foxx On People With Student Loans: I Have Very Little Tolerance For Them
http://thinkprogress.org/education/2012/04/13/464154/foxx-tolerance-student-loans/
Though many politicians sympathize with those who are saddled with exorbitant student debt, Foxx, who chairs the House subcommittee on higher education, had a different take. Appearing on G. Gordon Liddys radio show, the North Carolina congresswoman recounted her own experience paying for college, where she worked her way through and graduated after seven years. Foxx then pointed to her own experience as justification for why she has very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt. Theres no reason for that, she concluded:
FOXX: I went through school, I worked my way through, it took me seven years, I never borrowed a dime of money.....
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)According to UNC's website, a year at her alma mater currently costs $22,340 for a NC resident. You would have to be a very special person to do today what she did then - because what she did was live at home until graduation and work one year full-time, study one year full-time, work a year, study a year...in the 1960s when tuition was low you could do that. Now you need a degree to get the $25/hour job you'll need to have to pull it off.
She looks down on people who don't do what she did even though you can't do that anymore. Nice lady.
sakabatou
(42,158 posts)SouthernDonkey
(256 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)They need to toss her ass out.
Tabasco_Dave
(1,259 posts)but bats are useful and noble creatures.
Texin
(2,596 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Yep.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)yardwork
(61,650 posts)njcamden_25884
(27 posts)hateful b-word
Blasphemer
(3,261 posts)Anyway, yes, that kind of behavior is always unacceptable. Even if she were correct, there is such a thing as kindness and diplomacy. Too bad those things are almost impossible to find amongst the GOP.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Did that change?
NPolitics1979
(613 posts)She is the product of Jesse Helms,Lauch Faircloth,or Richard Burr.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Jennicut
(25,415 posts)Though I am sure many of them do. You are elected by the people, the staffers are not slaves. There is no law from using that elevator, especially when the regular one was being occupied by furniture movers and the members only one can be used when votes are not happening. What a nut.