Posted on 04/18/2015 12:31:22 PM PDT by Q-ManRN
Loretta Lynch’s allies are launching a hunger strike until she’s confirmed as attorney general, but they could be waiting weeks if Republicans follow through on their threat to delay Lynch even longer.
“As long as the Senate refuses to take fifteen minutes to confirm someone for Attorney General that they have already confirmed twice for U.S. Attorney,” National Action Network and its allies “will do everything in our power to draw attention to this completely unfair and unnecessary delay to vote to confirm Loretta Lynch,” Sharpton, who founded NAN, said in a statement Wednesday.
The group’s executive director, Janaye Ingram, added: “We stand with Loretta Lynch and are so in support of this cause that we are willing to sacrifice our daily meals to impress upon the U.S. Senate that it’s time to call a vote.”
The hunger strike is part of a broader campaign to publicly pressure Republican leaders to quickly hold a confirmation vote for Lynch, who has been stuck in a nomination purgatory ever since she cleared the Judiciary Committee in late February.
Activists also plan to blitz Senate offices urging support for Lynch, write letters to the editor and op-eds, and launch a social media drive trying to bring attention to the effort.
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Hunger strike my ass, they’re staging a wimpy diet.
yes, a very appropriate way to appoint the highest law enforcement person in the country is a hunger strike.
Ping. This hunger strike by liberal activists until Loretta Lynch is confirmed in the Senate is the best reason that I have heard to keep her from being confirmed indefinitely! And not for lack of other good reasons either. Frankly, it does not look like Al Sharpton has been skipping meals to me.
Have the vote and reject her. She has made it clear that the rule of law would be no obstacle to her own agenda.
Jeb begs to differ.
They’ll alternate fasting one day, eating the next. Not a hunger strike...it’s a phony strike.
The longer a vote is delayed on another racist Commie (with new energy) to be AG, the better for America. Blunts Zero’s destructive, lame duck plots.
Oh, well, a couple days or weeks of a hunger strike might just be a good thing for chubs Jeb.
Bon non-appetit, Gov. RINO!
Leni
EATING EVERY OTHER DAY IS NOT A HUNGER STRIKE!
Jeb needs to save his begging for votes for himself.
He can hope for mine in one hand and...
Ms. O’s school lunches make a hunger strike look pretty good.
Alternate days? Really?
So, they eat as much as they want every other day? And they have the chutzpah to call that a fast?
LOLing out loud at these idiots.
What was it Alan Grayson said “Die Quickly!”
“Loretta Lynch’s allies are launching a hunger strike until she’s confirmed as attorney general”
How long would it take on the hunger strike until these people faded away completely?
May they all loose a lot of weight. What would happen if this evil and incompetent is not confirmed. Would they just dry up and blow away?
most can do without the bean soup
Unless grocery stores are feeling the impact, not much of a “hunger strike”, is it?
“Hunger Games” is more like it.
“...Janaye Ingram, added: “We stand with Loretta Lynch and are so in support of this cause that we are willing to sacrifice our daily meals to impress upon the U.S. Senate that it’s time to call a vote....”
Translation: we stand with her because she’s a black woman.
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