Posted on 11/25/2014 2:40:13 PM PST by Zhang Fei
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon (D) came under political fire from his Lt. Governor Peter Kinder (R) for failing to deploy the Missouri National Guard in Ferguson before rioting got out of control. Kinder appeared on Fox News Tuesday morning with Martha MacCallum and expressed strong criticism about the Governor’s lack of action and lack of communication.
“You know what the difference is between an executive and a Senator or Member of Congress?” Kinder asked MacCallum. He then answered his own question stating, “You actually have to do something.” Thus began a very angry commentary by the Missouri Lt. Governor against the Governor who declared a state of emergency six-days ago yet failed to move the national guard into place to protect the citizens of Ferguson.
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You know Democrats would rather let a city burn then offend their voting base!
I don’t know if this will cost MO Dems, but I can’t help thinking it won’t help their electoral fortunes with white voters who are 84% of MO’s population.
Lets here from the MSM that we don’t need to be armed, the government will protect us!
Obamas tail wagging lackeys in all levels of government are shining the Emperor’s shoes. What we have come to expect.
If this riot had happened prior to the November Elections, Democrats would have had even greater losses.
How much more damage will be done in the fourth quarter?
The ROE would be hands off anyway. Why have a bigger paper tiger?
Bingo. Demoncrat Gov. Nixon had his marching orders to ALLOW THE RIOTING TO GROW so as to rebuild the black base following their tremendous loss in the midterm elections. Keeping blacks on the Democrat plantation is the goal. Race-baiter Barry Soetoro is doing all he can to help keep racial tensions alive.
I live in GA, but I listen to a Joplin, MO radio station over the internet (has my shows).
That Gov. is a joke.
I watched Nixon’s presser
NG was all over the place according to him
WHERE?
In another damn city?
“Demoncrat Gov. Nixon had his marching orders to ALLOW THE RIOTING TO GROW so as to rebuild the black base following their tremendous loss in the midterm elections.”
You completely lost me. How does rioting rebuild the black base?
Ferguson, however, has completely ripped apart any chance he had at national office to shreds. MO will go hard Republican in 2016, you can bank on it.
See my analysis.
Trust me, this state is an easy pickup for the Pubbies. Blacks feel betrayed by the Rats, most will stay home or cross-over and vote Republican.
They got showed in the Show Me state
The governor answered the criticism......... 700 national guard were deployed at 100 locations.
do the arithmetic........ 7 guardsmen per location
answering phones and eating stale doughnuts
I guess I’m the only person to see the Governors uniquely effective, if machiavellian response to the riots. The ferals got their riot with recreational looting. Some big box retailers got a good excuse to close marginal locations. Permanently. We all got an excellent example of why the police are pretty much worthless in a SHTF scenario.
Ultimately, Fergadishu will be just another burned out ghetto that will be a footnote in history. The scum wanted it, they got it.
Looks like Nixon is either a loud-mouthed coward or Obama/Holder put a bit in his mouth and covertly took over law enforcement (unenforcement) at Ferguson.
Time to recall this clown, have the State’s Attorney General convene a real grand jury to invest those who planned and carried out the violence in Ferguson, and hand down indictments like rain.
Readers of FR knew more about the Marxist and black extremists planners and perpetrators of the violence in Ferguson than did the DOJ/FBI, State Police, Local Police, National Guard, Governor’s Office and the national press.
Once you know who the enemy is, you will know how to handle them. LESSON UNLEARNED.
The question is, “How many looters should the Guardsmen kill?” They are trained soldiers, not cops.
If they are sent in unarmed (or worse, with empty weapons) they are being set up as targets themselves. If they go in locked and loaded, somebody is going to alarm a soldier and all Hell is going to break loose.
Thanks for posting this!
“Here is the question that the Governor must answer.” Kinder stated. “Is the reason they were not in there because the Obama Administration and the Holder Justice Department leaned on you to keep them out?”
“I cannot imagine any other reason why the Governor who mobilized the National Guard would not have them in there to stop this, before it started,” Kinder said angrily.
.... “As the news broke yesterday afternoon that they would announce it at 8 o’clock Central Time last night,” the Lt. Governor said, “a lot of us were scratching our heads. I think I would have chosen 6 a.m. this morning and had the grand jury meet accordingly to meet that time schedule, rather than an evening announcement when darkness had fallen and the bad folks who were out in force last night had several hours to do their work.”
“Your listeners should know that there is no communication by this Governor with the rest of state government,” Kinder said accusingly. “I sent a staff member of mine down the hall, on the same floor, to the Governor’s Office about an hour ago to inquire about a brief before I went on your air, and I have nothing, Martha. I have nothing.”
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“It’s been this way for the six years of his governorship with about four or five exceptions that were not nearly as serious as this when they did reach out to me for some pending announcement.”
If I were a cop in Ferguson I would have let it burn too.
These hood rats aren’t happy unless they are taking from others and creating general mayhem. Let em suffer from their culture. They don’t wand structure, laws or civility. There are only two things they want from whitey. Free stuff and someone to blame.
They want civility, let em police themselves!
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