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California asks Congress to officially censure Trump over Charlottesville
The Hill ^ | September 16, 2017 | Alicia Cohn

Posted on 09/16/2017 11:04:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The lower house of the California legislature on Friday night voted on a resolution urging Congress to formally censure President Trump over his response to violence last month in Charlottesville, Va.

“California sent a strong message to President Trump, and the rest of the nation, that we will no longer tolerate his behavior,” California Assemblymember Tony Thurmond said in a statement.

The measure urges other state legislatures to join it in condemning Trump and calls on the president “to publicly apologize to all Americans for his racist and bigoted behavior.”

The resolution was prompted by Trump’s comments that there was blame on “both sides” of a clash between protesters including white supremacist groups and counterprotesters in a rally opposing the removal of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville.

The president was widely criticized for not explicitly condemning the hate groups involved in his initial, and several subsequent, responses.

Thurmond introduced the resolution, charging that Trump “legitimized” hate groups including the KKK and neo-Nazis by failing to immediately blame them in the aftermath of the violent rally.

“The leader of the free world can’t continue to use language that legitimizes the actions of extremists groups that promote hate,” he said in the statement. “Congress must exercise its power to check the president by voting for his immediate censure.”

On Thursday, Trump signed a congressional resolution condemning white supremacists. The resolution was intended by Congress to urge him to speak out against hate groups.

"We condemn the recent violence in Charlottesville and oppose hatred, bigotry, and racism in all forms," Trump said in a signing statement accompanying the resolution.

The signing statement was criticized by some for failing to again specifically reject the groups referenced in the resolution, which were "white nationalists, white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and other hate groups."


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: california; charlottesville; trump; virginia
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To: Raycpa

I hats auto correction.


21 posted on 09/17/2017 1:48:19 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I feel sorry for the “normal” people in California. They are certainly victims of the reprobate mindset of the state.


22 posted on 09/17/2017 2:21:58 AM PDT by Maudeen (This world is not my home.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When I was young, Black people were considered tough. Now they’re the biggest bunch of whiny pussies in America.


23 posted on 09/17/2017 2:32:40 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

WHERE’S THE REPUBLICAN RESPONSE ?

Responding to these kinds of accusations by defending the accused gives the accusation creds.

What should be happening when stuff like this pops up in their respective legislature calendar.State legislative members (House or Senate) of the opposition party should band together and beside pointing out the waste of money with such stupid resolutions in the case of Charlotttville, attack that governor and mayor for allowing that situation to get out of control.While pointing out political postions taken llke sanctuary (partcicularly in states where the socialists are in control) besides taking jobs are costing them big tax money.


24 posted on 09/17/2017 3:24:41 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (Mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin)
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To: Widget Jr

“Time to introduce a little reality into the insanity of the California legislature.”

California dreaming. It’s on the news this morning that both houses have passed the Sanctuary State bill. Presumably, governor Moonbeam will sign it. I’m thinking that the California secession movement will now take on a new deminsion; that being a secession movement by the northern half and inner mountain stretch to become a separate state. At any rate, Cali will be interesting over the next few years for sure.


25 posted on 09/17/2017 3:45:06 AM PDT by snoringbear (E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: kelly4c

Unfortunately cray cray does seem to be taking over the modern world.

https://youtu.be/w40StCz3b-M


26 posted on 09/17/2017 4:14:07 AM PDT by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Funny they wait until one of their own (Pelosi), has her admission that Trump was right, fade from their pea brains.


27 posted on 09/17/2017 4:27:03 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Western sun must suck all the brain power out of these Nutsafornia Loons. Maybe it’s a requirement to have dementia to live out there. Almost everything you hear from there indicates they are mostly bat sh*it crazy.


28 posted on 09/17/2017 4:44:49 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Moon bats moon battery. I say again CA is one earthquake away from obscurity ...


29 posted on 09/17/2017 4:45:31 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth ( Freep u, Schmucky)
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To: GoldenPup

It was a great place when we left in 1974.


30 posted on 09/17/2017 4:46:26 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

California. A failed former state of the United States that vanished in the mega-quake.


31 posted on 09/17/2017 4:55:10 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: MagnoliaB

Yikes! Is there really any hope for people that deluded? Sadly I don’t think so.


32 posted on 09/17/2017 5:01:06 AM PDT by kelly4c
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
It was a great place when we left in 1974.

Moved there 54 years ago. It was truly wonderful.

Left 28 years ago. Never going back. I do miss the Mexican food though.

33 posted on 09/17/2017 5:08:32 AM PDT by Comment Not Approved (When bureaucrats outlaw hunting, outlaws will hunt bureaucrats.)
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To: Comment Not Approved

We have plenty of Mexican food here in Texas.


34 posted on 09/17/2017 5:09:59 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
California can't tumble into the sea fast enough for my liking.
35 posted on 09/17/2017 5:17:34 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Reminds me of one of Warren Zevon’s best lines:

If California slides into the ocean
Like the mystics and statistics say it will
I predict this motel will be standing
Until I pay my bill


36 posted on 09/17/2017 5:27:47 AM PDT by JennysCool
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They suck. They deliberately shoved a mike in front of Trump with the intention of trapping him in his words, which they did. Filthy liars.


37 posted on 09/17/2017 5:41:58 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only option for remaining sane in a criminally insane world.)
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To: aquila48

It figures. Another low IQ dumb negro.

Maybe someone should tell this idiot that John Kessler, the organizer of the false flag “white supremacist” group Unite the Right, is a supporter of Hillary and Obama, and a member of Occupy Wall Street.


38 posted on 09/17/2017 7:02:09 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Back to the future. It’s 1984 and California is INSOC. Is censuring Trump not an act of hate ?


39 posted on 09/17/2017 7:46:43 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: aquila48

Another race baiting idiot.


40 posted on 09/17/2017 10:34:28 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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