My Torchic ie. "Chicken" is a really good fighter!
Posted on 04/25/2014 9:31:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Tea Party candidate challenging Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to a primary challenge has been caught in an undercover video attending a cockfighting rally last month and there is evidence that he lied repeatedly about the event.
Matt Bevin, who is seeking to wrest Kentucky’s Republican Senate nomination from McConnell, and his campaign have said they thought it was a state’s rights rally he attended in Corbin, but in the undercover video from WAVE 3 News it’s clear what the event is about with signs supporting the legalizing of cockfighting. Bevin even speaks right after a cockfighting activist who explained clearly why they were: “For the sole purpose of legalizing gamecock fighting at the state level.”
The video emerged less than a month before the May 20 primary vote.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
“...steel spurs & other sadistic stuff”
Why cockfighting is illegal in most states. Otherwise, roosters just square off & when one breaks and runs, the fight is over, no fatalities.
Couldn’t help noticing that the rally took place near Harlan Sanders’ home, so here goes:
“Howdy folks! This is your old friend Colonel Sanders. After the cockfight is over, drop by KFC and try our new, delicious “Bucket O’Loser” Special! Guaranteed fresh as all getout, with that unique adrenalin tang! See y’all there!”
(Anyway, Matt Bevin for U.S. Senate!)
and the problem is.... ?
I don’t see one either.
Tea Party needs better internal policing!
Need a candidate questionare:
What are the 3 most embarrassing things you’ve done in your adult life?
Are you still doing stupid things?
Are you capable of THINKING before you open your mouth?
This is ABC which has experienced declining numbers of viewers for the last decade. Most of its viewers are in the NY city metro area and the Washington DC metro area. Kentuckians by and large don’t watch it and those that do are not energized against Matt Bevin for stroking the gamecock votes.
A report two weeks ago revealed that the gamecock association heavily influenced 60,000 critical votes in KY. McConnell had pushed through legislation barring gamecock and dog fighting in all 50 states, hence gamecock fans in KY were furious and invoked states rights to counter McConnell’s edict. Matt Bevin shows up to give a speech about states rights and the liberal media goes berserk, and of course McConnell is their guy.
The real question is whether this jab will hurt Bevin. I think it helps him because now those 60,000 gamecock members in KY are in his column.
I don’t like cock or dog fighting but in the bigger picture I think Bevin is far better to have as a senator than McConnell. I also think he means it when he says this is a state rights issue. The federal government has no business telling Kentuckians what they do with their chickens unless it affects public health in the food supply.
I’m sorry, I couldn’t find the video. Am I doing something wrong or looking on the wrong page.? I clicked the video link and still couldn’t find a video.
LOL! And it reminds me of the very disturbing joke about a Spanish delicacy and the punchline "Sometimes the bull wins". (all the guys who know the joke are kind of hunched over now).
At least Bevin was not sucking.
“and the problem is.... ?”
Lying about it?
“that was a pretty nasty setup by the McConnell campaign”
McConnell was already 38 points ahead before this “scandal”.
Didn’t this happen a long time ago?
‘Chicken George’ is just screaming out to be photoshopped into O’blamo.
Wow you too. Same here as a child my family raised chickens. Believe me I have seen Roosters square off to see who would be the dominant boss of the group. The Winner would get on top of him after a good fight and the loser would just walk away and the winner kind of fluff his feather and held his head up high like saying “I’m the boss”. Very interesting I learned alot about chickens.
Never did it...before it was outlawed.
Wish I would have..........
Snitch could come up with proof that Bevin was a serial killer and Grimes was a madam at a Frankfort whore house, it’s not going to make a difference, he’s lost my vote for good.
HA!!! Snort!!!!
My Torchic ie. "Chicken" is a really good fighter!
I’d be smoking a 5 Vegas Gold....
I won't miss him.....
I listened to the tape. The opening speaker makes it clear that everyone is gathered "[f]or the sole purpose of legalizing gamecock fighting at the state level.” It wasn't a rally for state's rights in general. Bevin spoke second.
Many FReepers will agree with how Bevin answered the first question presented to him:
Gamefowl Defense Director Dave Devereaux: "Will you vote to support the effort to legalize gamecock fighting in the state of Kentucky?”
Matt Bevin: “I support the people of Kentucky exercising their right, because it is our right to decide what it is that we want to do, and not the federal government’s. Criminalizing behavior, if it’s part of the heritage of this state, is in my opinion a bad idea. A bad idea. I will not support it.”
In an earlier radio interview, Bevin said:
“You look at cockfighting and dog fighting as well, this isn’t something new. It wasn’t invented in Kentucky for example. I mean the founding fathers were all, many of them, very actively involved in this and always have been. These things are part of a tradition and a heritage that go back for hundreds of years and were very integral early on in this country.”
Bevin is supporting the rights of the people of Kentucky to determine whether cockfighting and dogfighting should be legal in Kentucky. The law criminalizing attending cockfighting and dogfighting in Kentucky is a federal law.
However, Bevin needs to quit Clintonizing his explanation.
Ha!!
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