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Sheldon Whitehouse under fire for membership at all-white beach club
nypost ^ | 6/21/2021 | emily jacobs

Posted on 06/21/2021 9:13:00 AM PDT by bitt

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is facing new scrutiny over his decades-long membership in an all-white private beach club, as he bills himself as a progressive and prominent critic of “systemic racism” — dismissing membership based on race as “a long tradition in Rhode Island.”

Whitehouse (D-RI) was confronted Friday by a GoLocal Providence reporter, who published the video along with an article on Saturday detailing what occurred after asking about the senator’s membership at Newport-based Bailey’s Beach Club, part of the Spouting Rock Beach Association.

“I think the people who are running the place are still working on that and I’m sorry it hasn’t happened yet,” the progressive pol told the reporter after being asked of the club’s lack of any diversity whatsoever.

Asked if such clubs should continue to exist at a time when the country is having a racial reckoning, Whitehouse replied, “It’s a long tradition in Rhode Island, and there are many of them.

“And I think we just need to work our way through the issues,” he added before leaving the scene.

While Whitehouse appeared to dismiss the club’s circumstances, his wife, Sandra Whitehouse, is one of the three largest shareholders in the club.

When the Rhode Island senator, who was first elected in 2006, initially ran for his office, he disavowed his membership and pledged to quit the club, GoLocal reported.

GoLocal pressed Whitehouse and his office over his membership multiple times in 2017, noting that more than a decade had passed since his unkept campaign promise.

After the lawmaker repeatedly declined requests for comment on his involvement in the club, a GoLocal reporter confronted Whitehouse at a Newport-based event in late August of that year.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: allwhite; baileysbeachclub; beachclub; didyousearch; rhodeisland; sheldonisracist; sheldonwhiteelite; sheldonwhitehouse; sheldonwhitesonly; sheldonwhitesupreme; spoutingrockbeach; whitesonly
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To: plain talk

Sounds like our whites-only Country Club in Williamsport.

These places exist all over America.


21 posted on 06/21/2021 10:49:47 AM PDT by miserare ( Respect for life--life of all kinds-- is the first principle of civilization.~~A. Schweitzer.)
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22 posted on 06/21/2021 10:57:20 AM PDT by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No Amazon, No Chy-Na made )
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To: bitt

Sorry, gang, but I smell an anti-Trump false flag event. Here goes...

The propaganda media will now investigate all the members and highlight the all the members who did business with (sniff) “Donald Trump.” This will of course tie in Trump with racism. At this point, Sheldon Whitehouse is not even in the conversation. He was just reelected, so he’s in until 2026.

Now, the REAL reason for this incident: NY Attorney General Leticia James’ office will look to depose many of these members who had dealings with Trump and give them the riot act: They will find something to charge THEM with something UNLESS they come in and testify against Trump in his upcoming tax trial (yes, he will be indicted soon).

So I’m wondering...is THIS a FALSE FLAG event made to take out Donald Trump, or is it another “happy accident?” It’s glaringly clear to me.


23 posted on 06/21/2021 11:11:17 AM PDT by GOP Congress
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To: GOP Congress

I believe you.nothing is incidental. There is a reason for their madness.
Reminds me of the false flag of DJT calling American war dead “losers and suckers” with no proof.
It was to totally coverup Xiden ‘s calling troops “stupid bastards” on video.


24 posted on 06/21/2021 11:43:40 AM PDT by griswold3 (NBA/ Plumlee Ball. = poor entertainment value while insulting the audience gets you broke )
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To: Mr. K

maybe no one of color has applied yet...


25 posted on 06/21/2021 11:53:24 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Vendome

Would you want to rub elbows with this assh*le? You don’t have to be black to find him repugnant.


26 posted on 06/21/2021 12:09:05 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: bitt
dismissing membership based on race as “a long tradition in Rhode Island.
All this Georgia boy can say is "well bless his heart."
27 posted on 06/21/2021 12:23:48 PM PDT by dblshot (RActually Texas City)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Agree 100% along with that Hirono from Hawaii.


28 posted on 06/21/2021 12:47:01 PM PDT by entropy12 (President Trump saved Millions of lives with his warp speed push of vaccines, including my spouse.)
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To: plain talk
Mrs. Slocum?


29 posted on 06/21/2021 1:13:13 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: rfp1234

Wow. Didn’t expect that. :-)


30 posted on 06/21/2021 1:21:55 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: bitt

From the article:

“Asked if such clubs should continue to exist at a time when the country is having a racial reckoning, Whitehouse replied, ‘It’s a long tradition in Rhode Island, and there are many of them.

“And I think we just need to work our way through the issues,” he added before leaving the scene.’”

????

WHAT issues??? IT’S 2021, JACKASS!! WAKE UP!!

Only a demokkkrat could give an answer like that.

About a half century too late.


31 posted on 06/21/2021 1:27:11 PM PDT by sitetest (Professional patient; no longer mostly dead.)
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To: bitt
Whitehouse is a prototype of the elite democrat career politicians in charge of Congress and the big blue cities/states.

Elite Leftists are frauds, and their rules for us, don’t apply to them.

32 posted on 06/21/2021 2:16:18 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (“Respond only to polite and intelligent posters, who don’t insult you or us! Forget the others!”)
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To: bitt

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is facing new scrutiny over his decades-long membership in an all-white private beach club>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Whats the problem, its a free country.

Whitehouse sure as hell could not join an all black beach club
nor the Congressional Black Congress.

So why can he not join an all white beach club?


33 posted on 06/21/2021 2:52:22 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: bitt

Leftists democrats are all criminals at heart.


34 posted on 06/21/2021 6:15:07 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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