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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 1:19:42 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
To: counterpunch
LOL! No need to say more!
To: presidio9
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:20:26 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: jessduntno; jdub
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:20:44 PM PDT
by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does.)
To: NormsRevenge
I vote for photo #2. Heheheh.
Hey Norm!! How was the “big boat trip?”
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:21:00 PM PDT
by
EggsAckley
(There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply. W.C. Fields)
To: Clara Lou
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:21:26 PM PDT
by
VTenigma
To: presidio9
A life-sized Gore statue could lead to a global bronze shortage.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:22:27 PM PDT
by
dead
To: jessduntno
That would be the most embarrassing erection since the Clinton administration...
You are bad...but very funny :).
Erect a statue? I can’t believe the insanity that infects these people’s minds.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:23:30 PM PDT
by
Bitsy
To: Reaganesque
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:24:16 PM PDT
by
Slimey
To: presidio9
won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for “informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change.” Ahem! Thats
Catastrophic
Anthropogenic
Climactic
Alterations
Or...CACA.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:25:05 PM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
To: NMEwithin
Gore statue? I’m at a loss for words it’s so absurd... For cryin' outloud. I thought Al Gore WAS a statue.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:25:18 PM PDT
by
pgkdan
( I miss Ronald Reagan!)
To: presidio9
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:25:49 PM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: NormsRevenge
Those lefties love their row boats. We have a pic of Sean Penn boating after Katrina (of course it is in about 3” of wather he he)...they just love boating.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:26:11 PM PDT
by
Bitsy
To: NormsRevenge
Better yet, model it after this...
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:26:53 PM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:28:52 PM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(What kind of organization answers the phone if you call a suicide hotline in Gaza City?)
To: presidio9
I’d be okay with a statue if it was modeled after the photo showing the guy with his head up his own butt.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:30:50 PM PDT
by
Zman
(Liberals: denying reality since Day One.)
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
"Hey dum dum! Give me gum gum!"
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:31:14 PM PDT
by
al_c
(Avoid the consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity)
To: presidio9
We should agree to the statue, but only if it is placed at the coldest place on Earth. That way if his Global Warming Schtick actually comes true, everybody can kiss his......
Otherwise the Penguins can worship it.
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:31:31 PM PDT
by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: presidio9
My dog creates a statue of Gore in the front yard for a number of years now .... can’t control her .....
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:31:57 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: NormsRevenge
Or, how 'bout this:
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posted on
06/16/2009 1:33:12 PM PDT
by
NCC-1701
(ON 1-19-09 GAS WAS, ON AVERAGE IN MEMPHIS, $1.43 A GALLON.)
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