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Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 03:09 PM Mar 2016

Nine GOPers Vote Against Naming North Carolina Post Office After Maya Angelou

Nine Republican congressmen voted Tuesday against naming a North Carolina post office branch after Maya Angelou, with one lawmaker calling the award-winning poet "a communist sympathizer."

Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) said in a statement to NBC News that he believes the civil rights activist was "a communist sympathizer."

"Congressman Harris voted against the Maya Angelou post office naming because she was a communist sympathizer," the statement read. "His parents escaped communism and he feels that he cannot vote to name a post office in the United States in honor of someone who supported the communist Castro revolution in Cuba."

The other lawmakers who voted nay were Mo Brooks (R-AL), Ken Buck (R-CO), Michael Burgess (R-TX), Jeff Duncan (R-SC), Glen Grothman (R-WI), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Alex Mooney (R-WV) and Steven Palazzo (R-MS), according to the Huffington Post.

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Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) told NBC that such votes are "one of the most benign and bipartisan duties" performed by the House.

"That's why I was shocked today as nine Republicans voted against naming a post office after Maya Angelou, indisputably one of our country's greatest poets, authors and civil rights activists," Israel said in a statement.

Read more:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gopers-vote-against-maya-angelou-naming

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Uh huh atreides1 Mar 2016 #1

atreides1

(16,066 posts)
1. Uh huh
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 03:46 PM
Mar 2016

So, she's branded forever because of something she did as a young woman?

You know what I'd like to look into Grothman's past, isn't he the guy that still lives with his mother and has never been married, and while serving in the Wisconsin legislature he wanted a state law that said single parenting was a sign of negligence?

As for the Sons of the Confederacy from AL, TX, SC, KY, WV, and MS...those guys don't surprise me at all!

We should all remember Mr. Harris!
Harris's prominence as a medical doctor in opposition to government-run health care made him a lightning rod for attacks by supporters of the 2010 health care legislation. At a closed-door employee benefits briefing for new congressmen during the November 2010 freshman orientation, Harris was surprised to learn that the Federal employee health benefit plan would leave the new congressmen and their staffers without coverage until the following pay period, 28 days after inauguration. Concerned about this gap in coverage, he asked whether new government employees could purchase temporary coverage to fill this gap. "This is the only employer I've ever worked for where you don't get coverage the first day you are employed," he said through his spokeswoman, Anna Nix. Through a spokesman, his defeated opponent, Frank Kratovil, seized upon this dialogue, characterizing the question as a "demand" for special treatment and for access to the benefits he opposed in the new law. Furthermore, "Harris then asked if he could purchase insurance from the government to cover the gap," added an aide, who was struck by the similarity to Harris's request and the public option he denounced as a gateway to socialized medicine.

And Harris' father emigrated to the US, the word escape usually indicates that the country of origin didn't want the person to leave, in this case it would appear that he was allowed to leave Hungary. Even in Harris's official bio they use the word fled, not escape!!!

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