Posted on 02/23/2011 4:20:46 PM PST by neverdem
US Representative Michael E. Capuano, who decried violent political rhetoric after last months 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 theres been an intentional increase in the degree of heat in political discourse, he said. If nothing else good comes out of this, Im..."
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This cat-guano guy is such a loser. He needs to apologize to us peace-loving Citizens. I don’t think he “misspoke”. I think he wants to kill me. What a fool. Resign immediately, you “bloody” cretin.
MSM to Capuano:
Geez Man, Take it back... you’re making us look like hypocrites!
Yeah, you’d think he’d have known that the problem with labor activism getting bloody is that its not always the other guy’s blood.
From Indiana; Cox sent out a message on his Twitter account saying that police should “use live ammunition” against the protesters.
http://www.indystar.com/article/20110223/NEWS05/102230406/-b-Harsh-words-b-Deputy-AG-fired-over-tweets
Make no mistake, this is what the Senator and Community Organizer are calling for. They want to intimidate with terror. They want to incite a beat down.
Except that he’s in Massachusetts, where the majority of voters refused to vote for an auditor for State Auditor in the ‘10 general election, because there was an “R” next to her name.
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At least we know what Capuano really thinks. God knows what Chuck U and Bloomboob are thinking with the GOP House. There could be at least 7 states with no permission slip, Constitutional carry by the end of the year.
Looks like some labor punk, possible CWA member, hit a young girl in the face in Washington D.C. today.
Way to go Capuano, annus mouth.
>> “If the unions took the 30-50 million or so they spend every year on political ads etc...” <<
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They spent more than that just on Jerry Brown last year.
Thanks for the ping!
What a phony. Capuano was clearly playing to the crowd: a collection of thugs and malcontents. Now shortly after he puts his foot in his mouth, he realizes how bad he looks (especially after all the language regarding Tucson), and has to backtrack. The thing is, when liberals let their guard down is exactly when their ugly faces and grotesque souls are revealed. I’m glad he is taking heat for this episode.
They fired him. Too bad we can't have this Capuano fired for advocating violence.
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He regrets saying it in public. That’s it. His and the unions true mentality haven’t changed one bit.
Capuano married Barbara Teebagy, also of Somerville, in 1974.
hehehe, a teebagy!
Well, what if Rush said we should slaughter the union members in the streets and string their entrails up like traffic and Christmas lights... and then apologize? Would America buy it? a) Americans are not that cynical b) not that manipulative. Democrats are both a and b and America sees them for what they are, despite the apologies.
Yes, it was the new media director from Freedomworks, and it's all on videotape.
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