Posted on 10/24/2019 11:19:53 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
'Our country has lost a giant.' Elijah Cummings is first African-American lawmaker to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol as Congress bids farewell to sharecropper's son who went head to head with Donald Trump
Elijah Cummings' body is lying lie in state at the Capitol - the first time an African-American lawmaker has been given the honor
Congressional leaders including Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke at a service in celebration of his life Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said: 'Our country has lost a giant.'
Cummings was the son of sharecroppers. He earned a law degree and became a powerful committee leader and longtime Baltimore Congressman
He used his Oversight post to investigate the Trump administration
Trump attacked Cummings and his district, which he called 'rat-infested,' when he was alive
At a funeral in Baltimore Friday former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton will speak
Elijah Cummings was called 'a giant' Thursday as he became the first African-American lawmaker to lie in state in the dome of the Capitol.
The son of sharecroppers was carried up the steps of the Capitol in a flag-draped coffin by a military honor guard, with his widow Maya Rockeymoore Cummings waiting at the top of the steps, hand on heart.
Inside Statuary Hall, his coffin was placed on the same catafalque used in Abraham Lincoln's funeral.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called him 'truly a master of the House,' and Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer said: 'Our country has lost a giant.'
The public will be allowed to pay their respects to Cummings later Thursday. Only two African-Americans have lain in the Dome before: Rosa Parks in 2005 and in 1998, Capitol Hill Police officer Jacob Chestnut, murdered by a gunman while on duty along with another officer.
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The fact that he is dead doesn’t make him a giant of greatness.
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If you are a rat. And a black one. ......well, you get the idea. May his wife be in prison soon.
Isn't that what he did while he was alive?
“American has lost a giant _____ (what)
(fill in the blank)
I have as much respect for Representative Cummings as he had for me.
Those African scarves drive me nuts-—I first came aware of them at college and high school graduations,the black kids wore them with their caps and gowns. They shouldn’t be allowed.
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Not too much farming happening in Baltimore. LOL.
I recall stories of legendary Orioles manager Earl Weaver, having a tomato garden right there at Memorial Stadium. Otherwise very little agriculture there.
The pic of the widow: “hands up don’t shoot”.
Which would apply to most in attendance: a somber group of crooks.
The son of sharecroppers: an honorable profession he should have followed as well, for his adult life went downhill after becoming a lawyer. And as a Dem (aka: communist), appears to have been a devoted enemy of God.
wrong
ignorant
dumbass
Evil wears every skin tone.
Fake worshipper of God, imo.
A giant all right I”m just not going to say a giant what.
What a steaming load of stinking horseshit.
He’s stilly lying?
Thought the lying would have stopped by now.
Our country has lost a giant POS...
“There were sharecroppers in Baltimore?”
His parents might have sharecropped before moving to Baltimore.
I read that Democrat FDR’s farm aid program didn’t pay out on crops on sharecropper tilled land.
The black sharecroppers were generally forced to flee to cities in the Northern US in the mid-1930’s.
>>But at least in hell, his island will not top over.<<
Is this the guy that said that?
Lost a giant ego.
Lost a giant crook.
Lost a giant race baiting poverty pimp.
One of the great moments in democrat party history.
““When we’re dancing with the angels, the question will be asked, in 2019, what did we do to make sure we kept our democracy intact? Did we stand on the sidelines and say nothing?”” - Elijah Cummings
Well he should be trying to justify his actions right about now.
Ok...my vote...post of the day. lol Good one!
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