Racist Republican Sen. Frank Artiles forced to resign

[Miles]

Just another of the Trump camp showing what an intolerant racist he is. Good riddance!

 

[SyKoKo]

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[OldJourno]

Just another of the Trump camp showing what an intolerant racist he is. Good riddance!

So, you have no tolerance for racists?

 

[Hard_Rom]

So, you have no tolerance for racists?

What are you going to state, 'being intolerant of racist is no different than being racist yourself'? Go ahead. Say it.

 

[Miles]

So, you have no tolerance for racists?

In charge of making policies and running the show? Damn right. Surely it was a loaded question so go ahead and whine about something from a decade ago, or maybe tell me all about the Dems and the KKK? On second thought, keep your partisan ignorance to yourself, skippy.

 

[Miles]

What are you going to state, 'being intolerant of racist is no different than being racist yourself'? Go ahead. Say it.

He seems fine with a Senator calling people niggers, not that I'm surprised.

 

[OldJourno]

He seems fine with a Senator calling people niggers, not that I'm surprised.

Nah, actually never heard of the guy.
You guys sure are quick to jump to conclusions. But I'm OK with that. I'm tolerant that way.

 

[Parminderjeet]

aw, old eyer lost his gonads.

 

[lovecraft68]

Big thing is...who replaces him?

If its another repug...what's the difference?They are mostly racists to begin with. Repug's want the US back to 1950. Racism is still fine, women with no rights and homo sexuals back in the closet. So why even bother forcing one out if another is stepping in?

 

[james_1957]

Bill Clinton told Ted Kennedy that Obama 'would be getting us coffee' a few years ago

Bill Clinton helped sink his wife's chances for an endorsement from Ted Kennedy by belittling Barack Obama as nothing but a race-based candidate.

"A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee," the former president told the liberal lion from Massachusetts, according to the gossipy new campaign book, "Game Change."

The book says Kennedy was deeply offended and recounted the conversation to friends with fury.

After Kennedy sided with Obama, Clinton reportedly griped, "the only reason you are endorsing him is because he's black. Let's just be clear."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol...ama-coffee-years-game-change-article-1.197492

 

[james_1957]

Reid apologizes for racial remarks about Obama during campaign

Washington (CNN) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid apologized Saturday for making racially insensitive remarks about Barack Obama during the presidential campaign.

Journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann reported the remarks in their new book, "Game Change," which is scheduled to be in bookstores Tuesday.

The authors quote Reid as saying privately that Obama, as a black candidate, could be successful thanks, in part, to his "light-skinned" appearance and speaking patterns "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."

"He [Reid] was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama -- a 'light-skinned' African American 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,' " Halperin and Heilemann say.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/09/obama.reid/

 

[KingOrfeo]

Artiles is only a state senator -- this doesn't mean all that much in the national scheme of things.

 

[james_1957]

A Biden Problem: Foot in Mouth

Senator Joe Biden, D-Del., the loquacious chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who launched his presidential campaign today, may be experiencing an ailment not entirely unknown to him: foot in mouth disease.

Biden is taking some heat for comments he made to the New York Observer, in which he said of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., a rival for the nomination: "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."

Immediately the conservative media establishment -- Rush Limbaugh, the Drudge Report, bloggers -- publicly pounced. At Townhall.com, Mary Katherine Ham wrote: "A clean black man? The first black guy on the American political scene who can both shower regularly and speak properly? Is that really what Biden thinks? If a Republican had said this, we'd have a national outpouring of grief over the residual ignorance and racial insensitivity in our country, and the guy would be in sensitivity training until around about the time John Kerry is elected president."

"'He is a clean African-American'?" Limbaugh asked. "If Biden thinks that Obama is clean then he has to think that others are not clean. Does he mean that he knows that Jesse Jackson is not clean? Does he mean that he knows that Reverend Sharpton is not clean? ... See, folks, this is the problem for the libs. Once they get off script they expose their idiocy, they expose their prejudice."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2838420

 

[Hard_Rom]

Nah, actually never heard of the guy.
You guys sure are quick to jump to conclusions. But I'm OK with that. I'm tolerant that way.

Shame you aren't as tolerant of TGs as you are a couple of white dudes who call you a bigot.

 

[SyKoKo]

Guy running for office in NYC

Is a HERO for this

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C99OYYfXcAIihrr.jpg

 

[SyKoKo]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C99OY1hWAAAz21a.jpg

 

[OldJourno]

Shame you aren't as tolerant of TGs as you are a couple of white dudes who call you a bigot.

Don't know who the TGs are and after I shut off the computer I really don't care what anybody here thinks about me, either.

 

[someoneyouknow]

Nothing but excuses. When will Republicans accept personal responsibility for their actions?

Artiles has tried to explain his behavior as cultural, he’s said that’s the way people speak in Hialeah, where he grew up.​

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-senator-frank-artiles-resigns-over-racist-remarks/

 

[rocket_surgery]

Nothing but excuses. When will Republicans accept personal responsibility for their actions?

Artiles has tried to explain his behavior as cultural, he’s said that’s the way people speak in Hialeah, where he grew up.​

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-senator-frank-artiles-resigns-over-racist-remarks/

Your link says that he said "I am responsible and I am accountable and effective immediately, I am resigning from the Florida State Senate."

 

[rocket_surgery]

Artiles is only a state senator -- this doesn't mean all that much in the national scheme of things.

From Florida, too so he matters even less than most. He can join the rest of the unemployed racist scum that live there.

 

[someoneyouknow]

Not only is the former Senator a racist, he also did the typical Republican deflection by claiming his actions are being used for a political purpose:

In separate statement, Articles said, “While I take full responsibility for using language that was vulgar and inappropriate, my family has fallen victim to apolitical process that can distort the truth for the sole purpose of political gain.”​

http://sar-cdn.com/florida-news/2017-04-21/frank-artiles-resigns-florida-senate

Even better, this "family" man hired a Hooters calendar girl and a Playboy model to be "consultants" for his political action committee.

Darn those people using his actions for political gain.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-florida-senator-who-used-racial-slur-hired-hooters-playboy-models/

 

[james_1957]

Former PA Attorney General Kathleen Kane gets prison term

(CNN) — A judge sentenced former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane on Monday to 10 to 23 months in prison for committing multiple felonies stemming from a politically motivated act of retribution.

Kane, who resigned after her conviction of perjury and obstruction in August, also will be on probation for eight years following her release, according to Kim Bathgate, spokeswoman for the Office of Pennsylvania Courts.

Kane, a Democrat who was elected in 2012, faced a possible 12-24 years in prison, according to Kate Delano, a spokeswoman for the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office.

Before the sentencing, Kane testified on her own behalf, asking the judge to have mercy for the sake of her two teenage children.

"I really don't care what happens to me," Kane, 50, said, CNN affiliate WTAE reported.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/24/politics/pennsylvania-attorney-general-sentencing/

 

[james_1957]

Chaka Fattah, former Pennsylvania congressman, gets 10 years in prison for corruption

PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge has sentenced Former Pennsylvania Congressman Chaka Fattah to 10 years behind bars on charges of racketeering, fraud and money laundering.

Earlier this year, Fattah, 60, was convicted of misspending government grants and charity money to fund his campaign and personal expenses, even as he and his TV anchor wife earned more than $500,000 a year.

U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle called the Philadelphia Democrat’s crimes “astonishing” given that he and his wife had an annual income that put them at or near the “top 1 percent.”

Fattah spent two decades in Congress before losing the primary this year.

As he awaited his sentence, Fattah said he had “mixed emotions”: saddened to find himself in court but grateful for the work he was able to do.

“I’ve helped tens of millions of people,” Fattah said. “(That) has nothing to do with the fact that I’ve been found on the wrong side of these questions by a jury.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/chaka-fattah-former-pennsylvania-congressman-10-years-prison-corruption/

 

[someoneyouknow]

I see you have nothing to add and admit Artiles is the typical hypocritical, racist Republican.

 

[james_1957]

I see you have nothing to add and admit Artiles is the typical hypocritical, racist Republican.

You live in a glass house, Bitch.

You shouldn't be throwing stones.