Posted on 08/17/2017 2:38:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Fort Worth Rep. Kay Granger on Wednesday lined up with President Donald Trump, condeming violence coming from “both sides” and raising concerns about a rush to remove Confederate monuments.
Speaking with North Texas conservative radio host Mark Davis on Wednesday morning, Granger was asked whether in the wake of clashes between white nationalists and counter-protesters last weekend in Charlottesville, violence perpetrated by left-of-center activists was being ignored.
“[W]e need to recognize it and talk about it because it’s on both sides,” said Granger, who said people on both the left and right are guilty of escalating their political activism to violence. She called the events in Charlottesville “a horrible, horrible tragedy to have happen.”
Granger’s comments echo the response Trump made this weekend and then reiterated on Tuesday about the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville that left one person dead. The president condemned, by name, violent extremists, including the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis. He drew criticism from Democrats and Republican alike, however, for saying the people who showed up to protest white supremacy also shared in the blame....
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Bless her!
why aren’t Congressional Republicans doing this?
She has more balls than a lot of Congressmen and Senators.
Because they want to see him fail
....OR they’re lilly livered cowards
Kay looks like a levelheaded Shirley Maclaine.
First one
Surprising. Always thought she was a mini-me version of KBH.
Good for her.
Another honest person
She has bigger balls than either Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz, both of whom have criticized the Nazis and KKK but were silent about antifa.
Of course they were a profile in courage compared to the mailman’s son John Kasick.
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