Posted on 01/16/2015 8:52:57 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
In a rare moment of confusion, the usually well informed Rush Limbaugh talked about something he seems not to understand. In a few months there will be a special election to fill the now vacated seat in the 11th Congressional District which is largely on Staten Island. The seat was held by a Republican who has taken a plea and awaits sentencing for an income tax related crime.
For most of America, especially liberal America, Staten Island in a mysterious place that used to have the largest garbage dump in the world and is filled with Right Wing Republicans. Unfortunately for the liberal Democrat who will try to recapture the seat (it was taken from a liberal Democrat by the outgoing Republican) both of those statements are true.
Last summer and fall Staten Island was thrust into the spotlight of racial strife because a common street criminal named Eric Garner, who had no common sense, died while fighting the police who were trying to arrest him for a minor crime he was well known for committing. The case ended with a Staten Island Grand Jury declining to indict any of the police involved which gave birth to the Left’s “I can’t breathe” slogan.
Demonstrations against the police broke out everywhere but Staten Island. Yes there were a few people who gathered together to protest but there was...
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This guy’s blog is flaky, just post all of it.
And you are???
Not a blog pimp.
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