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GOP Gov attacks civil rights icon?
1 posted on 01/17/2017 2:25:25 PM PST by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

Glad to see more GOP types not putting up with this nonsense.


2 posted on 01/17/2017 2:27:29 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: SMGFan

Love LePage.


3 posted on 01/17/2017 2:27:47 PM PST by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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Lewis cannot keep up with the present. He cannot even remember GWBush inauguration.
5 posted on 01/17/2017 2:29:04 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: SMGFan
I found this quote which I put on my FB page:

We can all live together as brothers or perish together as fools

Martin Luther King Jr.

There are a whole lot of quotes such as this which establish that all of the agitators and boycotters know NOTHING about the person they're supposedly honoring.

(I can't wait to see how many faux friends "unfriend" me)

6 posted on 01/17/2017 2:30:18 PM PST by grania
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To: SMGFan

Way to chop the beef, governor!


11 posted on 01/17/2017 2:37:33 PM PST by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: SMGFan

Want to see full retard in action ? Go read the comments section for mass delusions and John Lewis-worship.


12 posted on 01/17/2017 2:41:10 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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It amazes me that everyone seems to forget that the people who attacked Lewis were DEMOCRATS....Alabama, George Wallace, KuKluxKlan are all DEMOCRATS and when Lewis recovered from his injuries having his skull fractured by a DEMOCRAT....he joined them...?????????????????


15 posted on 01/17/2017 2:46:07 PM PST by terycarl (COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVER ALL)
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To: SMGFan
Some sites are already "fact-checking" this, but he is right. Grant vigorously supported Reconstruction and suppressed the Ku Klux Klan.

The contested election resulted in the Compromise of 1877, where Congressional Democrats allowed the election of Rutherford Hayes and the Republicans agreed to withdraw troops from the South. Hayes supported equal rights and continued to try to enforce the Enforcement Acts which guaranteed the right of blacks to vote in federal elections. Despite his efforts, however, Southern Democrats gradually imposed their strict Jim Crow system.

16 posted on 01/17/2017 2:46:19 PM PST by colorado tanker
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"You know, I will just say this: John Lewis ought to look at history. It was Abraham Lincoln that freed the slaves. It was Rutherford B. Hayes and Ulysses S. Grant that fought against Jim Crow laws. A simple thank you would suffice."

BOOM! Dang, this makes Trump's response look down right civil. LOL!

17 posted on 01/17/2017 2:47:22 PM PST by Paradox ("Wishing for a tautology to enact itself is not a strategy.")
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It was Rutherford B. Hayes and Ulysses S. Grant that fought against Jim Crow laws.

Hayes ran against them, but caved in to win the presidency in that close 1876 election.

23 posted on 01/17/2017 3:00:09 PM PST by x
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Democratic U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights leader

The transformation of John Lewis is astounding. In just a few short days he went from an unheard of jerk who accomplished nothing, in to an untouchable lightworker of civil right the likes of which the world has never seen.
26 posted on 01/17/2017 3:05:29 PM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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Go LePAGE!!! He;s the ONLY Republican that has had the BALLS to say anything against St. John Lewis, the MORON!!!


28 posted on 01/17/2017 3:07:36 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Potentially our future governor is right on today PING :)


31 posted on 01/17/2017 3:17:50 PM PST by TheStickman (And their fear tastes like sunshine puked up by unicorns.)
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I live in Maine and heard most of that radio interview with Governor LePage.

When the governor said “We’re sick of the silver-tongued people,” I thought he mentioned by name Maine U.S. Senator Angus King (LePage will be challenging him in 2018 for his Senate seat) and First District of Maine moonbat congress-critter Chellie Pingree, who is boycotting the inauguration.


34 posted on 01/17/2017 3:33:56 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (January 20, 2017....America's liberation day approaches.....)
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Regarding history, I have relatives (great-great-great uncles, approximately) who emigrated from Norway to Wisconsin in the early 1800’s and who died serving in the Union Army. In other words, my distant uncles, both white, died in the fight to free the slaves. My great-great-grandfather also served in the Union forces and, fortunately, lived to return home.

If they were all somehow still living, and had voted for Trump, Lewis would no doubt consider them all racists. Screw him, not for being black, but for being un-American. Illegitimate, my butt.


35 posted on 01/17/2017 3:44:23 PM PST by Norseman (Defund the Left....completely!)
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Title doesn't match the article's title.

Article says: "Maine governor offers John Lewis an erroneous history lesson"

40 posted on 01/17/2017 4:11:51 PM PST by COBOL2Java (1 Tim 2:1-3)
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A Republican actually fighting back. Take note, Ben Sasse, Justin Amash, etc.


42 posted on 01/17/2017 4:37:09 PM PST by Trump20162020
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Maybe there’s hope for the GOP in New England yet. Nice to see someone call out the lie that the modern Republican Party is the successor of the old Dem Party. The Dem party has always been and continues to be the party of slavery, segregation, anti-civil rights, and pro judging people on the color of their skin and not the content of their character.


45 posted on 01/17/2017 5:06:04 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
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What is amazing is that a former Black Panther was on TV utterly destroying the actions of not only Lewis, but the entire BLACK CAUCUS (he called them communist), and stated that by joining the Democratic Party, they had submitted to their oppressors.

He was on a big tirade for the sad state of affairs, the break up of the family, and all the other Dem policies that have kept the blacks on the plantation.

He looked to be about 60 years old.


46 posted on 01/17/2017 5:15:30 PM PST by greeneyes
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It seems testicles are finally in bloom in DC.


47 posted on 01/17/2017 5:38:00 PM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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