Or that bumper sticker you see on the next Subaru driving by, an Obama bumper sticker. You should stop the driver and say, "So how is that hopey, changey thing working out for you?"
I have filed to run for Attorney General of South Carolina. We need a strong Attorney General. I will be the people’s lawyer to keep us safe, fight fraud and waste in government, and protect our environment. I hope you will join me in this campaign for a better future.
Swatzel pointed to state Budget and Control Board data that shows that while the school district spent $126.4 million in 2008, only 45 cents of every dollar was actually spent in the classrooms for instructional purposes.
"Miller and Anderson's bill would cause an increase in taxes on resident homeowners in Georgetown County at a time when record unemployment and home foreclosures are hitting the nation, this state, and Georgetown County," Swatzel said. "We should be trying to help homeowners by reducing their tax burden and focusing on reducing unemployment, not hurt them by raising their property taxes."
“Let me make this very clear. This bill was brought to us by the school board for introduction. It was their request to help with budget issues,” Miller said. “If the Republicans have issues with the bill, they need to contact the school board.”
Recent Congressional Votes
Congress is now in recess. The Senate is scheduled to return on Monday, April 12, and the House is scheduled to return on Tuesday, April 13. | |
| Recent Senate Votes | |
Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 - Vote Passed (56-43, 1 Not Voting) The Senate approved this bill that would make changes to the 2010 health care overhaul law and revise student loan procedures. The Senate made minor changes to the bill, sending it back to the House. Sen. Lindsey Graham voted NO......send e-mail or see bio Sen. Jim DeMint voted NO......send e-mail or see bio FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act - Vote Passed (93-0, 7 Not Voting) The Senate passed this measure to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration through FY 2011 and expedite the transition to a new air traffic control system. The bill was sent to the House. Sen. Lindsey Graham voted YES......send e-mail or see bio Sen. Jim DeMint voted Not Voting......send e-mail or see bio | |
| Recent House Votes | |
| Small Business and Infrastructure Jobs Tax Act - Vote Passed (246-178, 5 Not Voting) The House passed this legislation to provide tax incentives for small business job creation, extend the Build America Bonds program, and provide other infrastructure job creation tax incentives. It now goes to the Senate. Rep. Henry Brown Jr. voted Not Voting......send e-mail or see bio Disaster Relief and Summer Jobs Act of 2010 - Vote Passed (239-175, 1 Present, 14 Not Voting) The House approved this measure that would provide funding for disaster relief, summer jobs and small business programs. The bill now goes to the Senate. Rep. Henry Brown Jr. voted NO......send e-mail or see bio FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act - Vote Passed (276-145, 8 Not Voting) The House passed this bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration through FY 2011 and expedite the transition to a new air traffic control system. The bill now heads to the White House for the President’s signature. Rep. Henry Brown Jr. voted NO......send e-mail or see bio Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 - Vote Passed (220-207, 3 Not Voting) On Thursday night, the House agreed to Senate amendments to this legislation that would make changes to the 2010 health care overhaul law and revise student loan procedures. It now goes to President Obama, who is expected to sign it on Tuesday. Rep. Henry Brown Jr. voted NO......send e-mail or see bio | |
ROSE: Will insurance premiums go up?
WILLIAMS: The answer is yes, and some of the things that will drive those premiums are significant additional taxes the industry will ultimately have to pay in the first year.
Williams is lying. In fact, the health care law does not tax insurance issuers until 2014. Moreover, as Igor Volsky writes, insurers are disingenuously trying to point the fingers at hospitals and doctors to avoid a conversation about their own failed efforts to control costs while raking in profits.
Source: ThinkProgress.org
“We will talk about what we can do and how we can put people in office who will represent the people,” Ferris said. “This is not just a protest.”
She said the passing of this law is “totally against our Constitution.”
“If we don’t stand up for our rights and freedoms right now, we will lose them all,” Ferris said. “It’s gone beyond party lines. The people who passed this law are extreme radicals who are forcibly breaking the Constitution.”
Where's the proof, Vikki? It's really easy to spew talking points and rhetoric to a reporter but it's quite hard, I suppose, to come up with facts.
First of all, tell me exactly what "rights and freedoms" the people of South Carolina have lost?
Are you in support of the right of insurance companies to deny people because of pre-existing conditions, especially children? The bill did away with that.
And I suppose you are for the right insurance companies have to drop people from coverage when they get sick. You do realize the bill outlaws this, right?
How about the right of insurance companies to discrimination based on salary? Is this a "right" you want back, Vikki?
New group health plans will be prohibited from establishing any eligibility rules for health care coverage that discriminate in favor of higher-wage employees.
It seems to me that instead of promoting the fear and the pure obstruction of the GOP, the media would be doing a far better job educating the people with facts, not rhetoric.
If you'd want to support candidates who represent the people, you'd leave the GOP Patriots Club and stop pushing this rhetoric. The people have been represented - on a national level - and millions will now have access to health insurance - where companies make money.
I guess the GOP is now against the right to make money.
"Today is a great day for the voters and taxpayers of South Carolina. Almost two full years ago, I introduced this bill because our legislators were voting anonymously more than 90% of the time and the citizens of our state could not see the spending habits of their elected officials," Haley said. "The House has now voted - unanimously - to make it permanent law that every single vote will be on the record, and I couldn't be more proud to have helped bring this historic change about."
Rapidly growing imports of computer and electronic parts (including computers, parts, semiconductors, and audio-video equipment) accounted for more than 40% of the $186 billion increase in the U.S. trade deficit with China between 2001 and 2008. The $73 billion deficit in advanced technology products with China in 2008 was responsible for 27% of the total U.S.-China trade deficit. The growth of this deficit contributed to the elimination of 627,700 U.S. jobs in computer and electronic products in this period. Other hard-hit industrial sectors include apparel and accessories (150,200 jobs), miscellaneous manufactured goods (136,900), and fabricated metal products (108,700); several service sectors were also hard hit by indirect job losses, including administrative support services (153,300) and professional, scientific, and technical services (139,000).
A surge in imports of Chinese computer and electronic products accounted for more than 40% of the $186 billion increase in the U.S. trade deficit with China between 2001 and 2008, with these industries experiencing the largest trade-related job losses of any sector – 627,700 jobs, or 26% of all jobs lost or displaced between 2001 and 2008.
Rep. Michele Bachmann: "I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous….having a revolution every now and then is a good thing." Rep. John Boehner: "Take [Democratic Congressman] Steve Driehaus, for example. He may be a dead man. He can't go home to the west side of Cincinnati." Rep. Steve King: "Let's beat that other side to a pulp! Let's take them out. Let's chase them down." For close to two years, Republican politicians have been calling Democrats "anti-American," accusing the President of "palling around with Terrorists," and making not-so-subtle suggestions to supporters that they perpetrate violence on their political opponents. Now their rhetoric is finally bearing fruit. Over the last week, Tea Party extremists have made death threats against lawmakers and their children. They've thrown bricks through the office windows of Congress Members who voted for healthcare reform. One right-wing domestic terrorist even sent an envelope to a New York Congressman with white powder enclosed and a letter telling him to "drop dead." More than 50,000 of you have signed the petition! Now it is time for you to recruit your friends and family to do the same. We need to build up the strongest number to put up an effective fight. 1. Post the petition on your Facebook wall. 2. Email it to your friends and family. It's time to end this dangerous GOP demagoguery. Yours, Robert Greenwald and the Brave New Foundation Team P.S. For more videos on Tea Party racism, Join our Facebook page, Cuéntame. |
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"I am deeply grateful –and humbled- by all the support received from my fellow South Carolinians in the year since I began my campaign. However, the money side of my campaign is not generating the estimated 10 million dollars needed to effectively launch an aggressive challenge to unseat Jim DeMint(R-SC) in 2010.
Therefore, effective immediately, I am withdrawing my name from the 2010 United States Senate race. I thank all my supporters for their support.
God Bless The United States of America. God Bless the South Carolina Democratic Party.
Effective immediately, Patrick Labbe and I are resigning as communications director and campaign manager, respectively, for the Robert Dobbs for Congress campaign.As the campaign progressed, there were numerous inconsistencies in Dobbs' communications to us, and as a result of an email I received from his wife, we began to wonder if he did actually live in Myrtle Beach as he claimed. Before making accusations, Patrick and I drove to Myrtle Beach and discovered that his claims of residence were not true. We cannot verify where he lives, in South Carolina or Wisconsin.
As if this were not bad enough neither of us has been paid for our efforts on behalf of the campaign.
We don't feel we can work for a candidate whose claims cannot be verified. Nor can we tolerate the hypocrisy of his presentation of himself as a defender of workers' rights when he does not respect or pay his staff.
Susen Shapiro
Nelson, for one, is a top recipient of Nelnet [a large lender based in Nebraska] cash. The company's PAC has given him $19,000 over the years, and executives Jay and Mike Dunlap gave him $3,000 late last year. Sallie Mae's PAC maxed out to Senator Blanche Lincoln's primary account in 2009.But it's also personal, thanks to a revolving door between Lincoln and Nelson's senate offices and the lobbying operations of the student lenders.
Among their hires: Kelly Bingel. Bingel is Senator Blanche Lincoln's former chief of staff and a longtime aide to the Senator. She is lobbying on behalf of an obscure group called the "Student Loan Coalition" and John Dean, a lobbyist for the Consumer Bankers Association. The CBA's membership includes Citigroup, Chase, Wells Fargo, and a number of other large student lenders.Another connection: Lottie Shackelford, one of Lincoln's major donors, is a lobbyist for Sallie Mae, the biggest student lender in the country lobbyist. Shackelford, the former mayor of Little Rock and vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, has given Lincoln $3,750 over the past five years, including $2,000 in 2009. She first began lobbying for Sallie Mae in 2007.
A recent Roll Call article described Bingel as Lincoln's "alter ego." ... Lincoln is the godmother of Bingel's son [and] both members of the same sorority, Chi Omega.
On Thursday, the Senate set for special order H. 3584, the bill to raise South Carolina’s cigarette tax. Your calls have made a difference and now we need to make sure that our state senators hear from their constituents so that we can finally get an increase passed. The Senate is likely to debate the bill on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.
The tobacco companies and anti-tax groups are working overtime to oppose this bill and to delay a vote so that it will not pass again this year. Please call your state senator and urge them to vote to increase the tax. The bill that is before them will increase the tax by fifty cents. We would obviously like to have it increased more, but will certainly not oppose the fifty cent increase. We also think that it is important to emphasize that the bulk of the money be set aside for any future funding deficits in the state’s Medicaid program. We also support some of the funding directed to smoking cessation.
If you cannot reach your senator, please leave them a message of support, making sure to let them know you live in their district. As always, thank you for being a part of our grassroots program. Please let us know if you receive any feedback and if you have any questions pertaining to this bill.
National Nurses United is proud to present a new project called RN Heroes, which records the stories of "ordinary nurses doing extraordinary things" in a comprehensive online diary.
Phase one of the project features some of the RNs who rushed to Haiti after the devastating earthquake.
Below is a sample of what you will find at www.RNheroes.org:
1. A summary of the RN Heroes project...
"How does the world react when disaster rolls unmercifully across the fabric of our day-to-day lives? For governments and for relief agencies and for well-meaning people all over the globe, those reactions can be steeped in political and economic considerations as the flow of aid and of money for disaster relief is tamped up to meet the current global disaster call."
2. RNs telling their personal stories about life-changing events...
Lauren Aichele, RN Hero: "A little over 24 hours prior, I had learned of my deployment to Haiti. I felt so honored to be among the National Nurses United/RN Response Network nurses to be a part of Operation Unified Response onboard the USNS Comfort Navy Ship."
Ashley Forsberg, RN Hero: “One thing you learn on the ship is that everything you do makes a difference to your teammates. How much water you use during your shower. How much water you drink. How noisy you are in your quarters when people working other shifts are trying to sleep.”
Kathy Reardon, RN Hero: "Today was a very long day—we worked from 8:30 a.m. to 12 midnight. We heard choppers overhead all day."
3. Our multimedia collection of rich content also includes...
Feature articles from our new National Nurse magazine, photo slide shows by RNs in the field, a compelling video, and a NURSE TALK radio podcasts about the all new RN Heroes project and our Haiti relief efforts, which we are continuing for as long as there is a need.
Please TAKE A LOOK/LISTEN, share www.RNheroes.org with your friends and colleagues, and stay tuned for future phases of this project, in which you may soon see yourself.
NOTE: Nurses do not seek out the situations in which heroes are identified and sometimes glorified. They offer themselves into the service of patient care whether that care is needed in the rubble of Haiti, the devastation of Sri Lanka after the tsunami, or the flood-damaged Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans after Katrina. None of them ask to be heroes--they simply are!
In Unity with RN Heroes Everywhere,
www.NationalNursesUnited.org
2000 Franklin Street
Oakland, CA 94612
www.SendANurse.org
Today, I am officially filing to be a candidate for South Carolina Superintendent of Education.
Greetings everybody,
It time again for our monthly dinner meeting, Thursday April 1st, at the Riverview Holiday Inn at 301 Savannah Highway. Registration is at 6pm and the buffet starts at 6:30. The cost is $15.00. There will be vegetarian and meat entrees. Please make your reservations now by replying back to me, email jcbdw@bellsouth.net or phone 843-588-2429.
Our speaker will be Col. Robert Burton who is running for Congress in the First Congressional District, a seat currently held by Henry Brown. Please visit http://www.
Our second speaker is Elizabeth Boeschen who is a prevention program manager from Darkness to Light. Darkness to Light is a non-profit who's mission is to empower people to prevent child sexual abuse. Read more here, http://www.darkness2light.org/
Kindly remember to pay your dues if you haven't already and we are still looking for ideas for a big fundraiser.
Kindest regards,
Christine Wilkerson
First of all, on behalf of Planned Parenthood, I would like to thank you for all of your hard work these past 15 months to help defeat an insidious piece of legislation we've called the "two-trip ultrasound" bill (House Bill 3245). There has been some significant movement on the bill this week and I wanted to personally update you.
Yesterday, the Senate adopted an amendment to the bill that represents a hard-fought compromise between pro-choice and anti-choice Senators. As amended, the bill still includes several egregious stipulations, and Planned Parenthood remains opposed to its final passage. However, due entirely to the hard work of pro-choice advocates, like yourself, the requirement that women make two trips to the provider has been eliminated.
Under the amendment passed by the Senate, women will have to wait 24 hours after receiving biased state-mandated written materials before having an abortion. In addition, women will be informed of their right to view an ultrasound and will be given a list of locations that provide ultrasounds free of charge (which translates to crisis pregnancy centers, or CPCs). CPCs are anti-choice organizations that often give women misleading and medically inaccurate information about abortion, contraception and fetal development under the guise of providing unbiased counseling and medical services. Should a woman choose to have an ultrasound prior to coming to the reproductive health center for her abortion appointment, she must wait 24 hours between the ultrasound and the abortion. Critically important, however, is the stipulation that they are not required to have this prior ultrasound—they are simply given the option.
Obviously we are deeply disappointed that the Senate has voted to extend the waiting period from one to twenty-four hours, as well as infuriated by their decision to grant a stamp of approval and free advertising to crisis pregnancy centers. However, the most direct threat to access in the original legislation—the two-trip requirement—was removed. This is a direct result of your hundreds of phone calls and hand written letters, the thousands of emails, and the countless hours pounding the pavement collecting postcards. Sloane and I both are so thankful for your commitment to this work and to the women of South Carolina.
The fight is not over yet. The House must vote to adopt the Senate's amendments to ensure final passage. Please continue to stay tuned as things develop in the House. In the meantime, please do not hesitate to call or email me if you have any questions or concerns.
Sincerely,
Jessica Bearden
Director of Public Policy
jessica.bearden@pphsinc.org
919-710-1441
The House of Representatives cleared a $5.1 billion budget for the coming fiscal year last week restoring some of the cuts originally proposed, although challenges still remain for many state agencies serving children and families.
The House approved budget, reached following a 22 hour marathon concluding at 7:45 Thursday morning, restores some of the cuts causing the most angst for children’s advocates. The restoration was only possible following action by the U.S. Senate extending an enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) for an additional six months. These pending funds would provide $200 million in the state coffers and restore cuts.
The new federal dollars—still awaiting approval by the U.S. House of Representatives—will be used to restore early intervention services for children with developmental delays, maintaining children’s health care, and adding $10 million to the Department of Juvenile Justice that will prevent the closing of several of their wilderness camps and avoid falling out of federal compliance.
The budget also includes a 30 cent increase in the cigarette tax—still far below the national average of $1.34 per pack. The funds, to be reserved until 2011, are expected to generate an additional $90 million for health care.
Other cuts to the Department of Education and the Department of Social Services remain and threaten services and programs in place for children. The action now turns to the Senate where the Finance committee is expected to begin the version of a budget bill in the coming weeks.
The Honorable Henry McMaster
South Carolina Attorney General
Rembert Dennis Building
1000 Assembly Street, Room 519
Columbia, S.C. 29201
From:
Victoria and Donald Olson
2808 Parkers Landing Road
Mount Pleasant, SC 29466
Dear Mr. McMaster,
We sincerely thank you for your diligence in defense of the citizens of South Carolina. However, we believe you miss-informed in filing a lawsuit on our behalf protesting the health care bill. In a democracy, and even in the South, it is not the purview of our esteemed leadership to make such judgments on our behalf without first consulting with us. Through Newspaper, email and churches, you may easily garner our opinions.
We are many for health care reform. We hold dear the opportunity to serve, as our Lord would serve, the young, the elderly, the unemployed, and the under-served.
Your actions appear to be politically motivated, merely a run for Governor, mimicking the lowest of The Attorneys General in the Country. The effort will turn out a futile and unnecessary expense for South Carolina. I do believe, this is not a favorable trait for any politician.
COLUMBIA, SC – Today, the South Carolina Senate adopted a compromise amendment to H. 3245, a bill that extends the state-mandated delay prior to obtaining an abortion from one to 24 hours, and will take a final vote to pass the bill and send it back to the House tomorrow.
As originally introduced, the bill would have required every woman seeking an abortion to make two trips to the abortion provider—once for an ultrasound, and then again for the abortion procedure. In a state with only three abortion providers (in Columbia, Greenville and Charleston) this requirement would have increased the costs associated with the procedure, including travel, food, lodging, lost wages and securing childcare for existing children. A year long effort by pro-choice advocates led to the removal of this requirement in the amendment adopted by the Senate today.
“While we are pleased that our efforts to remove the two-trip requirement were successful, this legislation is still an egregious intrusion into the personal, private medical decisions of women and their families,” said Jessica Bearden, Director of Public Policy. “Mandatory delays are medically unnecessary and suggest that women make the decision to have an abortion flippantly.”
“In addition, the legislation is nothing more than a free advertising scheme for fake clinics. While crisis pregnancy centers claim to provide unbiased information and assistance to pregnant women, they often provide women facing unintended pregnancies with medically inaccurate and intentionally deceptive information on reproductive health, fetal development, contraception and abortion. Crisis pregnancy centers are not legitimate medical facilities. If they want to be treated as such, they should offer comprehensive health care services, meet medical standards, and provide accurate medical information to their clients. It is outrageous that the state legislature is recommending to women that they go to these centers for medical advice and procedures.”
Planned Parenthood Health Systems, Inc. is a private, nonprofit family planning agency that respects and protects the rights of each man and woman to make informed reproductive decisions. Our mission is to provide accessible, high-quality health care and information to clients and to serve as advocate and educator to the community on responsible human sexuality. We have offices and health centers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia.
To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. REPEAL.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and the amendments made by that Act, are repealed.
Yes. That's what he's doing - quickly - instead of helping his state with job creation, better health care access and funding for public education.
Senators Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), Robert Bennett (R-Utah), Kit Bond (R-Missouri), Saxby Chambliss (R-Georgia), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), John Ensign (R-Nevada), Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-Texas), James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), George LeMieux (R-Florida), James Risch (R-Idaho), Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) and David Vitter (R-Louisiana) have all signed on to DeMint's bill, with more expected to follow.
"This fight isn't over yet, Republicans are standing with the American people who are demanding we repeal this intolerable act."
No, Jim. The people who can't afford to speak are the majority. They have been punished long enough by the GOP policies enabled to protect the rich. What you don't hear or see is the cries for help or the deaths caused from lack of health insurance.
The fight isn't over yet, Jim. We are going to continue fighting you.
Good afternoon,
Since the House of Representatives voted to pass health reform legislation on Sunday night, the legislative process and its political impact have been the focus of all the newspapers and cable TV pundits.
Outside of DC, however, many Americans are trying to cut through the chatter and get to the substance of reform with a simple question: "What does health insurance reform actually mean for me?" To help, we've put together some of the key benefits from health insurance reform.
Let's start with how health insurance reform will expand and strengthen coverage:
Health insurance reform will also curb some of the worst insurance industry practices and strengthen consumer protections:
Reform immediately begins to lower health care costs for American families and small businesses:
Thank you,
Nancy-Ann DeParle
Director, White House Office of Health Reform
It's time to hold the Republican Party accountable.
You've probably heard about Tea Party members shouting "Nigger!" at Black Congressmen during a protest in Washington, D.C. last weekend. One of the protesters spat on Congressman Emmanuel Cleaver, while another called openly gay Representative Barney Frank a "faggot" as the laughing crowd imitated his lisp.[1]
But Saturday was just the most recent example of the intolerance and hate coming from right-wing extremists this past year. At times it's been instigated by Republican leaders. When not, it's usually condoned and seen as part of a strategy to score politically. Either way, it's completely unacceptable and has to stop.
It's time to confront Republican leadership and force them to take responsibility for the atmosphere they've helped create. Please join me in signing ColorOfChange's petition confronting Republican leaders about hate and fear-mongering in their party, and ask your friends and family to do the same:
http://www.colorofchange.org/hate/?id=2028-1093238
We're calling on RNC Chair Michael Steele, House Minority Leader John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to publicly do two simple things:
- Unequivocally condemn bigotry and hate among their supporters, and make clear that those who embrace it have no place in their party.
- Make clear that they will not tolerate fear-mongering and coded appeals to racism from officials in the Republican party, at any level.
Republican leaders publicly denounced Saturday's ugly scene, but they failed to acknowledge that this is only the latest incident in a pattern of violent rhetoric, racially charged imagery, and paranoid conspiracy theories at Tea Party rallies.[2] Many Tea Partiers aren't simply about dissent -- they use fear and hatred to assault the very legitimacy of our elected leaders. It's the worst America has to offer. Despite this, Republican leaders court the Tea Party movement while methodically supporting, exacerbating and exploiting their fear and anger for cynical political ends.[3] This is nothing less than a betrayal of American values, and it's up to us to force the Republicans to stop aiding and abetting this enterprise:
http://www.colorofchange.org/hate/?id=2028-1093238
The Tea Party movement has been marked by racially inflammatory and violent outbursts since its inception a year ago. GOP leaders are trying to pass off this weekend's assaults on Congressmen Lewis, Cleaver, Clyburn and Frank as isolated incidents. But when so-called "isolated incidents" crop up again and again, a pattern starts to emerge. The examples are numerous.
At rallies held to protest tax day last year, Tea Partiers carried signs that announced "Obama's Plan: White Slavery," "The American Taxpayers are the Jews for Obama's Oven," and "Guns Tomorrow!"[4] The Republican National Committee had endorsed the rallies, and RNC Chairman Michael Steele encouraged Tea Partiers to send a "virtual tea bag" to President Obama and Democratic Congressional leadership.[5] After reports of the fear-mongering signs surfaced, Steele did nothing to distance his party from the lunatic fringe. He has even gone so far as to say that if he didn't have his current position, he'd be "out there with the tea partiers."[6]
The Tea Party's venomous rhetoric picked up steam over the summer, when angry mobs flooded town hall meetings legislators had organized as sites for rational, civil debate on health care reform. After one meeting in Atlanta, a swastika was painted on the office of Congressman David Scott (D-GA), who had also received a flier addressed to "nigga David Scott."[7] Some protesters showed up at town hall meetings carrying guns, including at least one man who was armed at an event where the President was speaking.[8] Again, Republicans responded to these tactics with silence, doing nothing to denounce them.
Our country deserves better than this. No matter what party one supports, we should all take strong action to support civil, honest, and respectful public debate. Please join me in calling on Republican leaders to denounce racist rhetoric and fear-mongering, and reject it from their party. And when you do, please ask your family and friends to do the same:
http://www.colorofchange.org/hate/?id=2028-1093238
Thanks.
References
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2. http://huff.to/9Sgf3S
3. http://huff.to/c4ZOH4
4. See Reference 2
5. http://huff.to/3nzZE
6. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31177.html
7. http://bit.ly/8YInIb
8. http://bit.ly/LV1wb
