Posted on 02/23/2011 4:20:46 PM PST by neverdem
US Representative Michael E. Capuano, who decried violent political rhetoric after last month’s fatal shooting rampage in Tucson, said today he regrets urging union workers at a rally in Boston on Tuesday to “get a little bloody.”
“I strongly believe in standing up for worker rights and my passion for preserving those rights may have gotten the best of me yesterday in an unscripted speech,” the Somerville Democrat said in a statement released this afternoon. “I wish I had used different language to express my passion and I regret my choice of words."
Capuano was referring to remarks he made Tuesday at a raucous rally of about 1,000 union workers who were outside the State House, protesting Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and his plan to limit public employees' collective bargaining rights.
"Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary,” Capuano had declared to cheers, whistles and applause from the union crowd.
His remark raised eyebrows because Capuano was among the lawmakers who were calling for cooler political rhetoric after his Democratic colleague, Gabrielle Giffords, was shot in the Tucson rampage that killed six other people last month.
At the time, Capuano had said the shooting was probably inevitable because of the nation's increasingly heated political rhetoric.
“Many of us were afraid for a long time that something like this would happen, with the level or the tone of the discourse over the last several years," Capuano told WGBH on Jan. 22. "It's gotten violent and personal.”
Capuano echoed that sentiment in a Jan. 9 interview with the Globe.
“Everybody knows the last couple of years there’s been an intentional increase in the degree of heat in political discourse,” he said. “If nothing else good comes out of this, I’m..."
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Sorry. Too late.
Zero tolerance for clowns like you.
Them worms are out of the can, Capuanomoron.
I bet he regrets it now. So much for civility and thinking about consequences before you speak.
Crapawano is sorry he got caught. Crapawano has shown his true colors.
civility bookmark.
He's such a typical loud-mouthed Democrat thug. Any bets on whether or not he beats his women?
Loose lips sink ships.
Oh! The vitriol!
FU michael.
LLS
Well, as long as he hasn't promoted the deadly surveyors circle he's okay.
Regrets only being caught.
Big mouthing demanding “civility” agter Tuscon.
A classic sociopath.
A typical democrat party liar/hypocrite.
Rats Lie.
“He’s such a typical loud-mouthed Democrat thug. Any bets on whether or not he beats his women?”
Capuano the Cliche is Massachussetts answer to Jim Moran.
There fixed it. The article seems to have left it out
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2220514/posts?page=2 ~ seems this Capuano guy has more than his fair share of sleezy associates ~ which is one of the reasons he probably keeps quiet most of the time. The fact he removed his Congressional face at this crowd probably suggests there were some “friends” around who made him feel a bit too much at ease. I’d suggest the Speaker have him EXAMINED carefully!
Sorry he said it; not sorry he meant it.
Ironic that unions take choice away from the workers.
WE have zero tolerance. He is a democrat, and from MA no less, he will get all the passes he wants or needs. They always do. The only reason for the call to civility is to cast their own sins in the opposite direction to take the light of truth off themselves, and we all know it.
When I saw Capuano, I thought of NY Islanders coach Jack Capuano.
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