I used to think that. I'm less convinced after the great domicile debate.
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I used to think that. I'm less convinced after the great domicile debate.
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Sure if you say so lady.
Sheriff Joe
DA
DECEMBER 30, 2018
Sore loser of the year: Michigan Dem legislator stops representing her district after losing August primary
By Thomas Lifson
Despite the temptation to abolish the crown after Hillary’s stunning performance as a sore loser in 2016, another Democrat is making a strong case for membership in the sore loser hall of fame, where she joins Al Gore and John C. Breckinridge (who was defeated by Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and went on to join the Confederacy as Secretary of War).
Whatever Bettie Cook Scott may lack in national prominence, she makes up with chutzpah. When she lost her bid to move from the Michigan House of Representatives to a Michigan State Senate seat by losing the Democrat primary, she simply stopped showing up for work. Her district, in the City of Detroit, only elects Democrats, so the primary was tantamount to electoral victory.
Tom Gantert of Michigan Capital Confidential reports:
Democrat Bettie Cook Scott stopped showing up to legislative sessions as a state representative for the 2nd District in the Michigan House after she lost her bid for a state Senate seat in the August primary election.
The Detroit representative was far and away the state legislator who missed the most votes in 2018, according to an analysis done by Michigan Votes, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy’s vote-tracking website.
Scott missed 599 of a possible 1,045 votes in 2018. She missed all 488 votes from August through December 2018. MichiganVotes.org said in its analysis that it is unable to recall a similar situation in the past 25 years. Michigan Votes released its report on missed legislative votes on Friday.
State representatives are paid $71,685 a year. Scott didn’t respond to an email seeking comment.
Photo credit: Michigan State Legislature
Rep. Scott missed just under 40% of the year, if she quit the day after the August 7 primary, or $28,477.60 worth of her annual salary. If you or I stopped doing our jobs, we’d certainly not get paid for the rest of the year, but of course it doesn’t work that way for solons, who always seem to free to abandon their jobs to run for higher office.
But abandoning her constituents out of pique is not even at the top of the list of Scott’s offenses against decency in 2018. On the day of the primary, she employed aracial slur to characterize her primary opponent. Jessica Chasmar of the Washington Times:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...ities_secret_in_abortion_body_parts_case.html
https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...r_own_in_san_franciscos_mission_district.html
Michigan state Rep. Bettie Cook Scott is facing backlash from more than a dozen progressive groups after she allegedly used a racial slur against her Democratic opponent.
Ms. Scott, who is black, is accused of calling state Rep. Stephanie Chang, who is of Taiwanese descent, a “ching-chang” and “ching-chong,” according to several witnesses who spoke with the Detroit Metro Times.
Ms. Scott allegedly went on a tirade against Asian immigrants while speaking to voters outside polling precincts during last week’s Democratic primary, saying “these immigrants from China are coming over and taking our community from us,” Metro Times reported.
Ms. Chang went on to win the race for state Senate District 1 with 49 percent of the vote, compared to Ms. Cook’s 11 percent.
“These comments are offensive to all Asian-Americans,” Ms. Chang told Metro Times. “It isn’t about me. It’s about an elected official disrespecting entire populations, whether they be Asian-American, immigrant, or residents of Senate District 1 or [Ms. Cook‘s] own current house district.”
The backlash got to her, apparently:
Ms. Scott on Thursday publicly apologized to Ms. Chang and said she planned to apologize in person during a meeting with her next week.
“Those are not the kinds of comments that should be made nor are they the kind of comments I would normally make,” Ms. Scott said in a statement issued through her lawyer Bill Noakes, The Detroit News reported. “I humbly apologize to Rep. Chang and to her husband, Mr. Gray, and to the broader Asian American community.
“We live in a time of increasing divisiveness,” she said. “As a state representative, I should never do anything to contribute to an atmosphere of divisiveness and for that, I am terribly sorry. I look forward to meeting with Rep. Chang to express my apologies directly to her as soon as she’s able to meet with me.”
Even after whatever personal reflection followed her apology, Rep. Scott still could not get it together to show up and do the job for which she was being paid.
Sore loser of the year: Michigan Dem legislator stops representing her district after losing August primary
By Thomas Lifson
Despite the temptation to abolish the crown after Hillary’s stunning performance as a sore loser in 2016, another Democrat is making a strong case for membership in the sore loser hall of fame, where she joins Al Gore and John C. Breckinridge (who was defeated by Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and went on to join the Confederacy as Secretary of War).
Whatever Bettie Cook Scott may lack in national prominence, she makes up with chutzpah. When she lost her bid to move from the Michigan House of Representatives to a Michigan State Senate seat by losing the Democrat primary, she simply stopped showing up for work. Her district, in the City of Detroit, only elects Democrats, so the primary was tantamount to electoral victory.
Tom Gantert of Michigan Capital Confidential reports:
Democrat Bettie Cook Scott stopped showing up to legislative sessions as a state representative for the 2nd District in the Michigan House after she lost her bid for a state Senate seat in the August primary election.
The Detroit representative was far and away the state legislator who missed the most votes in 2018, according to an analysis done by Michigan Votes, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy’s vote-tracking website.
Scott missed 599 of a possible 1,045 votes in 2018. She missed all 488 votes from August through December 2018. MichiganVotes.org said in its analysis that it is unable to recall a similar situation in the past 25 years. Michigan Votes released its report on missed legislative votes on Friday.
State representatives are paid $71,685 a year. Scott didn’t respond to an email seeking comment.
Photo credit: Michigan State Legislature
Rep. Scott missed just under 40% of the year, if she quit the day after the August 7 primary, or $28,477.60 worth of her annual salary. If you or I stopped doing our jobs, we’d certainly not get paid for the rest of the year, but of course it doesn’t work that way for solons, who always seem to free to abandon their jobs to run for higher office.
But abandoning her constituents out of pique is not even at the top of the list of Scott’s offenses against decency in 2018. On the day of the primary, she employed aracial slur to characterize her primary opponent. Jessica Chasmar of the Washington Times:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...ities_secret_in_abortion_body_parts_case.html
https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...r_own_in_san_franciscos_mission_district.html
Michigan state Rep. Bettie Cook Scott is facing backlash from more than a dozen progressive groups after she allegedly used a racial slur against her Democratic opponent.
Ms. Scott, who is black, is accused of calling state Rep. Stephanie Chang, who is of Taiwanese descent, a “ching-chang” and “ching-chong,” according to several witnesses who spoke with the Detroit Metro Times.
Ms. Scott allegedly went on a tirade against Asian immigrants while speaking to voters outside polling precincts during last week’s Democratic primary, saying “these immigrants from China are coming over and taking our community from us,” Metro Times reported.
Ms. Chang went on to win the race for state Senate District 1 with 49 percent of the vote, compared to Ms. Cook’s 11 percent.
“These comments are offensive to all Asian-Americans,” Ms. Chang told Metro Times. “It isn’t about me. It’s about an elected official disrespecting entire populations, whether they be Asian-American, immigrant, or residents of Senate District 1 or [Ms. Cook‘s] own current house district.”
The backlash got to her, apparently:
Ms. Scott on Thursday publicly apologized to Ms. Chang and said she planned to apologize in person during a meeting with her next week.
“Those are not the kinds of comments that should be made nor are they the kind of comments I would normally make,” Ms. Scott said in a statement issued through her lawyer Bill Noakes, The Detroit News reported. “I humbly apologize to Rep. Chang and to her husband, Mr. Gray, and to the broader Asian American community.
“We live in a time of increasing divisiveness,” she said. “As a state representative, I should never do anything to contribute to an atmosphere of divisiveness and for that, I am terribly sorry. I look forward to meeting with Rep. Chang to express my apologies directly to her as soon as she’s able to meet with me.”
Even after whatever personal reflection followed her apology, Rep. Scott still could not get it together to show up and do the job for which she was being paid.
Sheriff Joe
DA
PAM KEY 30 Dec 2018
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called former President Barack Obama’s reasons for pulling U.S. troop out of Iraq in 2011 “a bunch of bullshit.”
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...sQBQ&usg=AOvVaw0YrQ7o6lzjRfd8sSWSNG_o&cf=1
BASH: If ISIS reconstitutes itself after the U.S. leaves, does President Trump bear responsibility?
GRAHAM: Number one, everything we’re dealing with today falls on Obama’s watch. He is the one who withdrew from Iraq in 2011 —
BASH: He did it because there was the forces agreement in Iraq, right?
GRAHAM: No. That’s a bunch of bullshit. Pardon my French. That’s an absolute lie. Obama wanted to get to zero. He got to zero. In 2011 I said I hope the president is right but I fear this decision will come back to haunt us. ISIS came about as a result to withdrawal from Iraq.
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called former President Barack Obama’s reasons for pulling U.S. troop out of Iraq in 2011 “a bunch of bullshit.”
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...sQBQ&usg=AOvVaw0YrQ7o6lzjRfd8sSWSNG_o&cf=1
BASH: If ISIS reconstitutes itself after the U.S. leaves, does President Trump bear responsibility?
GRAHAM: Number one, everything we’re dealing with today falls on Obama’s watch. He is the one who withdrew from Iraq in 2011 —
BASH: He did it because there was the forces agreement in Iraq, right?
GRAHAM: No. That’s a bunch of bullshit. Pardon my French. That’s an absolute lie. Obama wanted to get to zero. He got to zero. In 2011 I said I hope the president is right but I fear this decision will come back to haunt us. ISIS came about as a result to withdrawal from Iraq.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Too bad Powell has shutdown the printing press with the rest of the government.
Bruddah IZ
DA
When did you guys start believing what he says?
Thank you.
Bruddah IZ
DA
It wasnʻt a debate.
Even better in his signature quote about how he can't afford health care is the absence of an opening quotation mark. He gets so confused he doesn't know if he's quoting someone else or just saying something himself. Ignatius J. Reilly--look it up. He's the guy.
I can't imagine how that guy can't afford health insurance. LOL.
Bruddah IZ
DA
It wasnʻt a debate.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Health Insurance is illegal.
Bruddah IZ
DA
By the time we hit Jan 1st the government will be shutdown for two Sats/two Sunds/christmas and NY Day. Six days. What a bargain.
*GOBEARGO*
PREMIER
Welcome.
*GOBEARGO*
PREMIER
A whole lot of brain cells evidently.
Do you have anything to contribute other than lies and insults? BTW, loser joe has already put in a claim on that territory.
Kelly said a combination of wall, personnel and technology is what’s appropriate.
Trump says Mexico is paying for it and he won’t sign a budget until the Dems agree that US taxpayers pay for it. He talks like Iz.
*GOBEARGO*
PREMIER
Yes.
Sheriff Joe
DA
Hey.