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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we all know how Marxists like this moron and zer0bama feel.
Civility is only for their enemies right of center...for the left it is their right to destroy constitutional govt by violence...
dont pi$$ down my back and tell me its raining, zer0..
Sickening, psychotic, Democrat scu&bags.
IMHO
Let’s hope some disgruntled voter burns his home down while he is in Washington, maybe he’ll see what it is like to experience thuggery.
The only thing Capuano regrets is that his comments were heard beyond those he wanted to (urged) get bloody. These union thugs live for violence. It’s like a lawyer making an outrageous statement and being called down by the judge, but in the meanwhile the jury heard it. His message got out.
Not the ‘rank and file’ but the leaders, the organizers.
AND, they like to ‘send messages.’ Not physical, personal violence at a picket line, but maybe doing some damage to an opponent’s car, or in the extreme, killing off a ‘scab’ who has crossed the union lines. That ‘scab’ may have an ‘accident’ that the ‘workers’ and ‘bosses’ are to interpret. The union people have no scruples whatsoever.
The ‘rank and file’ may not be evil to the same degree, but they ARE the useful idiots. I understand that in some states or industries one cannot work without joining the union. That is why union busting has to go forward. Their membership has declined dramatically over the past few decades. With Obama they have regained power, without regaining membership.
You get the word out to the troops, then back off for the rubes, knowing that your boys got the message.
This is a tactic, not a mistake or apology.
Evidently his handlers and sockpuppetmasters frowned upon his choice of words and gave him the word to tone it down.
Don’t want to let the cat out of the bag too soon, after all... Sorta like that idiot communist congresswoman a year or so back “We gon’ NASHON-LIZE yo Oil Companies...”
Folks need to understand - these cretins ALWAYS tell us what they’re going to do, one way or the other...
“...Ought to be fun when folks really start digging through his past...”
Umm, like, Who? The “fair and impartial” media? Hell, he’ll be portrayed as the Saint from Massachusetts, come to cleanse the Senate.
If the GOP would grow some balls and start shining a flashlight on these cockroaches, things might change. But not until then.
Our choices, it seems, will always between the least communist, the least corrupt, or the least stupid of two or three candidates.
“...When I was a kid, I had a girlfriend who’s Father was beaten to a bloody pulp by union thugs ...”
His family and relatives should have tracked them down and shot them full of holes - Period.
The only reason they get away with that sh*t is because there’s no consequences.
Ah, the ole ‘incite now, fake apology latter’ tactic. If only there were an integrity litmus administerd to those running for public office.
Note to self: standards only apply to conservatives
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