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Allen West explains Pigford vote
the right scoop ^ | 20Jun 2011

Posted on 06/22/2011 12:31:58 AM PDT by shove_it

Allen West says that he didn’t do enough due diligence on the Pigford amendment and says he may have to take this one ‘in the shorts’:

[audio interview at link]


TOPICS: Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: allenwest; pigford; west
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Hey, he screwed up. He's human.
1 posted on 06/22/2011 12:32:02 AM PDT by shove_it
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To: shove_it

He should have done his homework.


2 posted on 06/22/2011 12:35:13 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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To: shove_it; seekthetruth

STT posted this on the Florida messsage board along with this comment from Rep. West’s weekly update:

“- FY 2012 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations – On Thursday, June 16, the House approved H.R. 2112 by a vote of 217-203, I voted YES. The bill would provide a total of $17.25 billion in non-emergency, discretionary budget authority in FY 2012 for government programs funded through the Agriculture and Rural Development Appropriations Act. The bill would represent a decrease of $2.67 billion or 13 percent below the FY 2011 funding level and a reduction of $5.03 billion or 22 percent below the President’s request. H.R. 2112 meets and surpasses House Republican’s pledge by bringing discretionary budget authority for Agriculture and related agencies down to nearly FY 2006 spending levels.

There were some 40 amendments to this piece of legislation and there are those who questioned my NO vote on Rep. Steve King’s amendment on Pigford. I accept full responsibility for not doing a complete due diligence and personal research on this amendment. I am mortal and a fallible human being who seeks to do his best daily, and improve as such.”


3 posted on 06/22/2011 12:37:14 AM PDT by shove_it (just undo it)
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To: smokingfrog

nobody is perfect. not even Ronald Reagan.

and no congressmen can be an expert on every bill,
especially when they can be 2000+ pages.

but West is unique, that he admits his mistakes,
and learns from them.

...and i can forgive him just about anything.
when he had to make a decision between his career, his retirement, everything he had worked for, for 20 years,

...and his men...

he chose his men.


4 posted on 06/22/2011 12:39:34 AM PDT by Elendur (the hope and change i need: Sarah / Colonel West in 2012)
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To: shove_it

Good. Now let him admit he was wrong in voting for Obama’s hundred million for school clinics (aka Planned Parenthood baby-killing recruitment centers), and in his support for killing some of the babies, and maybe I’ll begin to rethink my opinions of him.


5 posted on 06/22/2011 12:43:49 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Tea Party: 'Give us our country back.' - GOP: 'Give us our power back.' Two very different things..)
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To: shove_it; buccaneer81

ping

re: Darrell Issa, Allen West Vote To KEEP Pigford Funds

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2735937/posts


6 posted on 06/22/2011 1:08:13 AM PDT by shove_it (just undo it)
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To: shove_it

I am proud of West for coming clean. That took guts.
Now, what’s Issa’s explanation?


7 posted on 06/22/2011 1:19:52 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: shove_it

It was a rookie mistake. He owned up to it and took responsibility for the result, unlike nearly every other politician.

We`d rather it didn`t, but sometimes..sh*t happens.


8 posted on 06/22/2011 2:24:26 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Imagine.... a world without islam.)
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To: Elendur

Great point!

And I also like your reference to Reagan, who I admire greatly overall, but signed into law some bad legislation in his time. The Military Ex-Spouse Protection Act, which screws military retirees out of up to 50% of their hard-earned retirement benefit. That one has far more reaching consequences than West`s Pigford vote.


9 posted on 06/22/2011 2:30:58 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Imagine.... a world without islam.)
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To: smokingfrog

Yes.....and he has the character to admit that.


10 posted on 06/22/2011 2:34:54 AM PDT by Puckster
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To: shove_it

Nice try.
Allen made the choice to join the CBC. Now he is voting with them.
Obviously, he didn’t t hear us last year... READ THE DAMNED BILL!
Maybe this will silence all of the idiotic talk of “drafting” another rookie that we know squat about for the White House.
But I doubt it.


11 posted on 06/22/2011 2:53:18 AM PDT by PalmettoMason (Blacks are not inferior, but it is racist to hold them to the same standards as everyone else.)
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To: EternalVigilance; shove_it
and maybe I’ll begin to rethink my opinions of him.

No, you wouldn't.

12 posted on 06/22/2011 2:56:41 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: shove_it; Elendur
"...I am mortal and a fallible human being who seeks to do his best daily."

"...nobody is perfect. not even Ronald Reagan."

I hear you. I really hear both of you. But I've seen nearly 24,000 pages of about as close to perfection as this world is likely to see this side of Rapture.

Her name is Sarah Palin. She didn't hand out the emails with the proviso that "Hey, I'm just a fallible human..."

Palin didn't cast her votes in Alaska with the excuse, "Hey, nobody's perfect."

She just did what needed doing, and did it just about as flawlessly as it could have been done.

That's the difference. The huge, all important difference.

BIG movers swept in after this report was filed. Will try to post some photos of the lovely event.

;^\/

13 posted on 06/22/2011 2:56:41 AM PDT by Gargantua ("Palin 2012 ~ Going Oval" ©2010 by Gargantua)
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To: shove_it

Its obvious DC has become bigger than 435 congressman. We need 4535 to keep an eye on the organized looting of the American Treasury.


14 posted on 06/22/2011 3:01:25 AM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you do not, no explanation is possible")
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To: Gargantua; shove_it; Elendur

Allen West
Herman Cain
Sarah Palin

I have noticed that the REPUBLICANS have at least three viable and popular candidates.

Now, who does the Democratic Party have?


15 posted on 06/22/2011 3:05:38 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: PalmettoMason
Steve King's amendment to curtail the Pigford reparations failed by 166 for vs. 262 against. 78 Repubs joined 184 Dems to defeat the amendment. I have not read the text of King's amendment but it looks like bunch of Repubs voted the wrong way, not just Issa & West.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll444.xml

16 posted on 06/22/2011 3:49:00 AM PDT by shove_it (just undo it)
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To: Elendur
I accept full responsibility for not doing a complete due diligence and personal research on this amendment. I am mortal and a fallible human being who seeks to do his best daily, and improve as such.

How many politicians have said something like this in the last 50 years or so?

17 posted on 06/22/2011 4:09:21 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: shove_it

Do first, seek forgiveness later?


18 posted on 06/22/2011 4:49:20 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Elendur

BINGO! And he maned up and admitted it instead of lying. How refreshing.


19 posted on 06/22/2011 5:21:09 AM PDT by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: Right Wing Assault; All

None...


20 posted on 06/22/2011 5:31:01 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Birthers are just as bad as the 9/11 Truthers..)
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