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CreativeDominant -> RE: A republican has a unique solution to immigration problem (3/18/2011 7:47:56 AM)
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
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Topeka, Kansas (CNN) -- A Kansas state lawmaker was silent Thursday regarding a controversial remark he made suggesting that unauthorized immigrants should be shot.
State Rep. Virgil Peck, a Republican, declined to talk to a CNN en Español journalist who was waiting for him at his office Thursday. On Monday, Peck made headlines when, during an appropriations committee meeting, he made a reference to an agricultural program that controls the state's feral hog population by shooting them from helicopters.
"Looks like to me, if shooting these immigrating feral hogs works, maybe we have found a (solution) to our illegal immigration problem," Peck said.
Bipartisan backlash follows state rep's 'joke' on shooting immigrants
Is this anything like "Second Amendment remedies?"
Not sure, jlf...what remedies do you suppose the Democratic legislator had in mind here?
Keep calm and carry on, right? Only if you’re on the right and are a member of the Tea Party movement. Otherwise, there’s a whole other set of rules to play by.
"On Monday, Milwaukee AM 620 WTMJ radio host Charlie Sykes detailed an encounter between Democratic State Rep. Gordon Hintz, who had previously been busted in a prostitution sting, and Republican State Rep. Michelle Litjens, in which the rules of civility were completely ignored after a vote to “engross” a state budget repair bill.
“After the vote to engross, he turns to a female conservative Republican, who is also from the Oshkosh area, looks at her and says, ‘You are f—ing dead,’” Sykes said. “He didn’t say ‘f—ing,’ he said the whole thing. He says to a female colleague, ‘You are f—ing dead.’”
According to Sykes, Litjens confirmed the encounter and explained she felt that she had allowed him to “intimidate her.” However, Sykes called on the media to look into the encounter as tensions are high in the state due to a union-collective bargaining showdown in the state government.
“Here’s my challenge: Is anybody in the media going to follow up on this story about Gordon Hintz?” Sykes continued. “All you need to do is call the state representative. Call Michelle Litjens, ask her this question. Call Gordon Hintz, ask him. Call other members and if he denies it, I actually have a list of other legislators who heard it"
In MY world, if I had either man to vote for, I would not. I would support someone not so irresponsible in their statements. Free speech may be allowed but you have to look at what that speech reflects about the person uttering it, even after granting them the "reasonable doubt" that comes with the situation in which the speech occurs.
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