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Offline Hoodat

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'I abandon the chair': Rep. Cleaver stuns colleagues with protest over partisanship
« on: July 17, 2019, 09:13:49 pm »
'I abandon the chair': Rep. Cleaver stuns colleagues with protest over partisanship

July 17, 2019, 8:02 AM EDT     |     By Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Mr. Civility had had enough.

"We don't ever, ever want to pass up, it seems, an opportunity to escalate," Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II, D-Mo., said from the House speaker's chair Tuesday afternoon after a fight broke out over a resolution to condemn President Donald Trump's "racist tweets."

The House went silent as the mild-mannered Cleaver, a seven-term House member, swept a pointed finger across the chamber, saying he dared anyone to say he had been "unfair."

"We want to just fight," Cleaver, a pastor, said, balling his fists to demonstrate the exchanges. Then, in a move that House veterans said they had never seen before, he declared, "I abandon the chair," put down the gavel and strode off.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/i-abandon-chair-rep-cleaver-stuns-colleagues-protest-over-partisanship-n1030711



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Re: 'I abandon the chair': Rep. Cleaver stuns colleagues with protest over partisanship
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2019, 09:16:44 pm »
Hmmm...
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Re: 'I abandon the chair': Rep. Cleaver stuns colleagues with protest over partisanship
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2019, 09:39:29 pm »
   Been there, Done that, got the TShirt.



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Re: 'I abandon the chair': Rep. Cleaver stuns colleagues with protest over partisanship
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2019, 12:37:24 pm »
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"When we allow hyperpartisanship to control the conversation, what once was a virtue becomes the downfall of a divided nation."

If a democrat federal politician has finally had enough of this crap, how do they think the general public feels about it?
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Re: 'I abandon the chair': Rep. Cleaver stuns colleagues with protest over partisanship
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2019, 02:04:01 pm »
Quote from: thackney on July 18, 2019, 12:37:24 pm
If a democrat federal politician has finally had enough of this crap, how do they think the general public feels about it?

The context was Nancy Pelosi violating House rules by calling Trump racist, and an R Congress-Critter making the formal motion to rule her out of order. She was, though contrary to custom (rules?) Pelosi left the floor during the process that ruled against her. The resolution condemning Trump's pointed - but NOT racist - Tweets passed. I don't know how Cleaver voted on that resolution.
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