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'It’s a good day' - Sen. John Cornyn reflects on Juneteenth bill signing
KHOU ^ | 6/18/2021 | Adam Bennett

Posted on 06/22/2021 9:56:12 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

Sen. Cornyn spearheaded the effort with Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Houston), the bill’s sponsor in the U.S. House.

Juneteenth, the celebration of freedom that started in Texas, is now being celebrated across the nation.

Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) was instrumental in pushing the holiday from the Lone Star State all the way to the President’s desk.

“It’s a good day,” said Sen. Cornyn on Friday.

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Sen. Cornyn spearheaded the effort with Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Houston), the bill’s sponsor in the U.S. House.

They both stood alongside President Biden as he signed it into law in D.C.

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


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KEYWORDS: assistantdemocrat; cornyn; cuckconservative; deepstate; fakeconservative; juneteenth; rino; texas; uniparty
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To: marcusmaximus

So glad I’ll never vote Republican again
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21 posted on 06/22/2021 10:48:10 AM PDT by Artcore
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To: marcusmaximus

The black community with 75% fatherless birth rates has just stolen fathers day. And they dared name it Juneteenth Independence Day two weeks before July 4th.

Next year it actually falls ON Fathers Day.


22 posted on 06/22/2021 10:49:39 AM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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To: marcusmaximus

It’s a bad day when a spoiled privileged victim group gets yet another day for promoting White Guilt.


23 posted on 06/22/2021 10:51:22 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The government is the biggest criminal of them all.)
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To: Jane Long

Besides Rep. Jackson in West TX, who are the other 13 who voted against this?


24 posted on 06/22/2021 10:52:16 AM PDT by Theodore R. ( )
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To: marcusmaximus

good day for you. bad day for America.


25 posted on 06/22/2021 10:52:25 AM PDT by dadfly
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To: alternatives?

As I understand it, there are roughly 800k government employees.....that adds up to millions if not tens or hundreds of million dollars.


26 posted on 06/22/2021 10:52:33 AM PDT by V_TWIN (Where's Hunter???)
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To: V_TWIN

“that adds up to millions if not tens or hundreds of million dollars.”

and that is for one year. You won’t ever be able to eliminate another paid holiday to offset because that would be racist and disrespectful of Juneteenth.


27 posted on 06/22/2021 10:58:11 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Theodore R.

No idea. You’d have to know the bill number, then look it up.


28 posted on 06/22/2021 11:11:27 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: Artcore

Juneteenth is a nice holiday. It celebrates the end of slavery... and that’s a Republican victory. Many of us have families who fought in the civil war - many of us have families that fought for civil rights BEFORE democrats saw the winds changing and ran to the front of the parade.

So this is OUR holiday too...


29 posted on 06/22/2021 11:22:41 AM PDT by GOPJ (RAPE isn't penis violence. ARSON isn't fire violence. Murder isn't gun violence. CriminalsRviolence )
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To: GOPJ

Keep telling yourself that. It’s nothing more than a club to be used by the left to peddle white guilt, the notion America is always bad, and advance critical race theory.


30 posted on 06/22/2021 11:28:14 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: marcusmaximus

Why didn’t Cornyn or Sheila Jackson-Lee urge Texas to make a STATE recognized holiday before taking it to the federal level?

It doesn’t make sense/mean anything beyond Texas.

Too many modern interpretations of the holiday are false.

It never was to recognize the end of all slavery in the America. More Northern states than Texas held their slaves until December 1865 and Indians held onto slaves much longer than that.


31 posted on 06/22/2021 11:44:20 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: 1Old Pro

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32 posted on 06/22/2021 11:45:59 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: marcusmaximus

the holiday, Juneteenth, is a day of celebrations when the Republican’s defeated the Democrats and set Black people free.


33 posted on 06/22/2021 11:46:12 AM PDT by dirtymac ( Now Is The Time For All Good Men To ComeTo The Aid Of Their Country! NOW)
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To: mrmeyer

Then why add “National Independence Day” to the name of the holiday? Only one reason: to subvert the ONLY “Independence Day” holiday, July 4. Definialy ANTI-Republican Party, and meant to do one thing: Destroy the United States.


34 posted on 06/22/2021 11:58:47 AM PDT by GOP Congress
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To: marcusmaximus

No, I think Juneteenth is great! It is what the Republican party was FOUNDED upon YEARS AGO, Spearheaded by Lincoln and a Union General that threw out the Democrat slaveholders and got rid of slavery in our country. Hooray! (We’ve got to stop allowing the news media to COLOR the best ideas and use them against us). This new holiday celebrates the END OF SLAVERY, it celebrates the FOUNDING of the REPUBLICAN party ... YEARS AGO!!! So Slavery is over and the Republicans are credited. Done! Celebrate is passing!


35 posted on 06/22/2021 12:12:35 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (For accuracy, always replace “Biden” with “Biden’s Handlers”)
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To: marcusmaximus
'It’s a good day' - Sen. John Cornyn reflects on Juneteenth bill signing

So when is Cornhole going to sponsor holidays for the REST of the "downtrodden" [/sarc] minorities?

36 posted on 06/22/2021 12:16:52 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction". It is dying on Our Watch!)
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To: marcusmaximus

Cornholio is an embarrassment to true Texans.


37 posted on 06/22/2021 4:10:47 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: marcusmaximus

HISTORY: Not all slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, nor via Juneteenth. Only the slaves of the REBEL states were freed then. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was a wartime effort to split and weaken the South; he did NOT free any slaves in the Northern states. Slaves in the non-rebelling border states had to wait for the 13th Amendment, effective December 18, 1865.


38 posted on 06/19/2023 4:23:24 PM PDT by 2harddrive (https://rumble.com/vdptuf-best-election-fraud-video-ever-unmasked-have-we-uncovered-the-truth-about)
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