Progressive Politics from Memphis
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Does He Know It’s an Election Year?
Ho boy…Umm bad choice of words, considering the subject…. State Representative G.A. Hardaway (D-92) of Memphis seems to have opened up a can of worms that he may not be able to shut. The bill in question… HB2964/SB3717. Sponsored by Hardaway and State Senator Reginald Tate (D-33) the bill would require a paternity test to…
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Wooo PiG!!!
Congrats to my ARKANSAS RAZORBACKS!!! It was a great game, that came down to the last basket…Steven Hill, the only points he scored the whole game. Can’t wait until tomorrow!
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Apologizing to Ferraro
h/t MissLaura Yesterday, Geraldine Ferraro resigned her post on the Clinton finance committee. This follows several days of noise concerning a “racist remark” that she made about how Barak Obama wouldn’t be in the lead for the Democratic nomination if he weren’t black. Now apparently, she wants an apology from the Obama campaign. Are you…
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Please Just Shut Up
As I wrote a couple of days ago, Michigan and Florida, for whatever reasons, screwed themselves out of delegates, not the other way around. Calls from the Clinton camp, who “won” those delegates without any real campaigning to seat the delegates as they are, are starting to make me really angry. Then I saw this…
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Rep. Abercrombie gets Craiged
As reported by By Betsy Rothstein in the gossip section of The Hill While reporters were hovering outside a Capitol Hill conclave of the Michigan and Florida delegations last Wednesday night, Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii) just happened to come by to use the restroom, which he did. But when he emerged, flashing lights surprised him…
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The CA Steps Up
I’ve been pretty hard on the CA over the years, but in this morning’s edition there are two really great columns by two of my favorite punching bags. The first comes from the often annoying Wendi Thomas. In her article, she talks about the conditions that perpetuate the cycle of violence in our society. The…