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Democrat Refers to Middle America as ‘Podunk, USA’
Washington Free Bacon ^
| 05/11/2017
| Elizabeth Harrington
Posted on 05/11/2017 1:10:45 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
Derogatory comment made during discussion of rural broadband access!
A Democratic lawmaker from California referred to Middle America as "Podunk, USA," during a committee meeting last week, several sources inside the meeting told the Washington Free Beacon.
Remarks by Rep. Anna Eshoo (D., Calif.) during a closed-door Energy and Commerce Committee meeting with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai raised eyebrows from those present.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bitterclingers; demoncrats; deplorables
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To: ForYourChildren
Hey, I resemble that remark.
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posted on
05/11/2017 1:11:01 PM PDT
by
ForYourChildren
(Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
To: ForYourChildren
You list the source as “Washington Free Bacon”. Freudian slip?
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posted on
05/11/2017 1:14:27 PM PDT
by
pa_dweller
(President Donald Trump, President Donald Trump. Because I know you like seeing it.)
To: ForYourChildren
She is talking about all of these people that live in the red areas. That's a lot of people that she is dissing.
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posted on
05/11/2017 1:14:36 PM PDT
by
ForYourChildren
(Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
To: pa_dweller
He does that all the time..................
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posted on
05/11/2017 1:15:37 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
To: ForYourChildren
Apparently never been to Ceres, Turlock, Atwater, Livingston, Merced, ...
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posted on
05/11/2017 1:15:55 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
To: ForYourChildren
Hey, I don’t!
The liberal elites at the U of Michigan won’t like that description either, they call their school “The Harvard of the Midwest.”
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posted on
05/11/2017 1:18:19 PM PDT
by
Ace's Dad
(BTW, "Ace" is now Captain Ace. But only when I'm bragging about my son!)
To: ForYourChildren
Yeah....but "Podunk" sure put Hillary out to pasture...didn't they?!? 😄
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posted on
05/11/2017 1:19:20 PM PDT
by
FrankR
(FULL REPEAL, OR NO DEAL)
To: ForYourChildren
Anna Eshoo is a total primate:
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posted on
05/11/2017 1:21:46 PM PDT
by
Veto!
(Opinions freely expressed as advice)
To: ForYourChildren
Better Podunk than Pervtown.
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posted on
05/11/2017 1:22:29 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(FABOL)
To: ForYourChildren
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posted on
05/11/2017 1:23:43 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(DinosorosExtinction)
To: ForYourChildren
I live in one of the Red Counties of West Virginia ...
Little Miss KKKalifornia can grab a piece of Cholla and bugger herself with it.
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posted on
05/11/2017 1:24:05 PM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
To: ForYourChildren
The same Podunk that every town half her constituents come from that is 1000000x worse else they wouldn’t sneak in by the bagful, amirite?
To: FrankR
Let me get this straight, we’re deplorable podunks?
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posted on
05/11/2017 1:24:40 PM PDT
by
OLDCU
To: ForYourChildren
“If I were just a private citizen — Joe Six-Pack” President Clinton 1998
Democrats always belittle the commoners. It's deplorable.
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posted on
05/11/2017 1:26:16 PM PDT
by
CJ Wolf
(just a conspiracy theory, no facts behind the above post.)
To: Ace's Dad
The liberal elites at the U of Michigan wont like that description either, they call their school The Harvard of the Midwest.
Same with U of Chicago, where they made a shirt describing Harvard as "The University of Chicago of the Northeast".
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posted on
05/11/2017 1:30:20 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: ForYourChildren
The lady Reprsentative from California probably gets annoyed when people yell “God Bless You!” when her name is called out.
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posted on
05/11/2017 1:31:38 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: ForYourChildren
She was referring to Hope, Arkansas.
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posted on
05/11/2017 1:32:55 PM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: ForYourChildren
Her name is pronounced just like as it is spelled.
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posted on
05/11/2017 1:33:43 PM PDT
by
BilLies
(It is not the color, but the culture that degrades....)
To: ForYourChildren
She’s Assyrian and sure lives up to the first 3 letters of it.
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