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Senate says no to Gore statue
the Chattanooga Times Free Press ^
| Tuesday, June 16, 2009
| Andy Sher
Posted on 06/16/2009 1:10:14 PM PDT by presidio9
A resolution urging that the state Capitol Commission erect a statue on the Capitol grounds in honor of former Democratic Vice President Al Gore for winning the Nobel Peace Prize failed on the Senate floor today.
The resolution, which also urged a statue be erected for Nobel Peace Prize winner Cordell Hull, failed on a 15-14 vote with most Republicans voting no. It needed 17 votes to pass.
Earlier, the sponsor, Sen. Andy Berke, D-Chattanooga, said the measure had “broad bipartisan support in the House.”
In the Senate, Sen. Ken Yager, R-Harriman, removed an amendment he had previously attached to the resolution that would have included the name of libertarian economist James Buchanan Jr., who won a Nobel Prize for economics.
Sen. Yager also noted that Mr. Gore had not actually been born in Tennessee.
Mr. Gore, Democrats’ unsuccessful 2000 presidential nominee, won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for “informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change.” That was based in large part for his documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, for which he won an Oscar.
The late Mr. Hull, a one-time U.S. secretary of state, won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping found the United Nations.
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: agw; algore; excelsior
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:10:14 PM PDT
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:11:49 PM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: presidio9
“A resolution urging that the state Capitol Commission erect a statue...”
That would be the most embarrassing erection since the Clinton administration...
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:12:16 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
(July 4th, 2009. Washington DC. Gadsden Flags. Be There.)
To: presidio9
That’s too bad.
Now where are the birds going to poop?
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:12:20 PM PDT
by
counterpunch
(In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
To: presidio9
A Gore statue? I’m at a loss for words it’s so absurd...
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:12:33 PM PDT
by
NMEwithin
To: presidio9
algore Ha Ha Ha loser again.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:13:17 PM PDT
by
Cheetahcat
(Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
To: presidio9
Why can't they just put a wooden Indian in the public square?
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:13:34 PM PDT
by
Beagle8U
(Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
To: counterpunch
That would create more global worming!! HeHeHe!!
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:13:41 PM PDT
by
handy old one
(It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristote)
To: counterpunch
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:14:17 PM PDT
by
StAntKnee
(I keep thinking I'm gonna wake up from this dream theatre of the absurd.)
To: presidio9
Oh, good God!
a statue of Gore?
Is Tennessee running a surplus this year?
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:14:19 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
To: presidio9
The Nobel prize committee is a joke anyway.
Give Fat Albert the prize for an obvious fraud over Irena Sendler?
Disgusting.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:15:19 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: presidio9
Too bad, I was looking forward to peeing on it.
12
posted on
06/16/2009 1:15:23 PM PDT
by
jdub
(A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.)
To: presidio9
They have a lot of brass!
13
posted on
06/16/2009 1:15:33 PM PDT
by
fish hawk
(The trouble with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
To: presidio9
Yeah but what are the pigeons going to have a crap on then?
To: presidio9
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:15:51 PM PDT
by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: presidio9
I’d just as soon they have one of Spiro Agnew.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:16:20 PM PDT
by
fish hawk
(The trouble with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
To: pissant
Model it after this..
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:17:22 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
To: presidio9; Slings and Arrows
Make it out of bio-waste. The artist who made the portrait of Madonna and Child with elephant dung is probably available.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:17:34 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
To: Beagle8U
Because a wooden Indian has more personality and that would make Al look bad.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:17:57 PM PDT
by
fish hawk
(The trouble with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
To: presidio9
A statue of Al Gore? Wouldn’t that be redundant? Besides, didn’t Al invent statue making?
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