GOP State Reps CAUGHT On LIVE MIC: Dubs NRA-Backed Legislation ' Give A Handgun To A Schizophrenic '

[Segami]

:smoke: Even THEY don't believe their own bullshit they spin.


" Republican Iowa State Rep. Jeff Kaufmann, speaker pro tem of the Iowa State House, was caught joking on a hot mic that a proposal which would allow state residents to carry weapons in public without permission from a sheriff and without any training or a background check might better be called the "give-a-handgun-to-a-schizophrenic-bill."


The Des Moines Register reports that the comment was caught on video during a discussion of House Study bill 219, the so-called "Alaska carry" legislation after a similar law in Alaska.


As the members discuss pulling Rep. Ron Jorgenson from leading debate on a controversial union collective bargaining bill, Rep. Erik Helland, jokes that he's going to get stuck carrying the bill because he's the "dirty hatchet man for the caucus" because he's "expendable."


When another lawmaker asks what the "Alaska carry" bill is, Kaufmann helpfully explains that it is "the crazy, give-a-handgun-to-a-schizophrenic bill" before someone informs them that the microphone is on.:rofl:


video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5kNyS0p-dM&feature=player_embedded




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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/iowa_goper_dubs_nra-backed_legislation_give-a-hand.php?ref=fpblg



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[whathehell]

1. This better have legs with the media!...n/t

[Segami]

6. I can't wait to see Fox's in depth coverage of this.

:rofl: :sarcasm:

[Snoutport]

11. no mention of it, i'm sure n/t

[jemelanson]

2. Don't you just love it when they get caught in an unguarded moment

telling the truth about what they are doing. Speaking the truth to the lies and spin that comes from their own mouths in guarded moments. I just love it when they do that.

[Segami]

3. The truth always finds its way against liars & manipulators,

by design or by destiny, sooner or later it will arrive to collect on its debt.

[Rambis]

4. Mr. Kaufman's public persona is that of an Andy Griffith type

who just can't stand partisan politics even though he is a political science community college professor (20 years). This is exactly what he is like behind closed doors or open microphones.:+

[Hannah Bell]

5. wow, that's a laff riot. i repeat, why do these people have jobs when normal people don't?

[JoeyT]

7. If they can come up with stuff like this

then why are the right wing comedians always so godawfully fucking unfunny?

Can they only be funny by accident?

[Snoutport]

8. Keep kicking this one until it is on the front page!

kick

[opihimoimoi]

9. KnR 20 :o)

[jemelanson]

10. Kick

[Renew Deal]

12. Pretty funny

:rofl:

[cordelia]

13. Rec