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Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s Corporate Donors Want Their Money Back
rollcall ^
| November 21, 2018
Posted on 11/21/2018 4:05:46 PM PST by SMGFan
Companies say contributions made before lynching comments became public; law makes that unlikely
Half a dozen corporations have asked Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith to reimburse their contributions to her runoff campaign.
The companies have been under intense scrutiny in recent days for their financial support of the senator in the wake of her remark that she would be on the front row of a public hanging at a campaign stop earlier this month. The NAACP has said her comments evoke Mississippis bloody history of lynchings.
The video has drawn new attention to her runoff race against Democratic challenger and former U.S. agriculture secretary Mike Espy, who is black.
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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: corporateliberalism; tough
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To: vette6387
“My comments [did not] mean I would enjoy any type of capital punishment sitting there witnessing this. You know, for anyone that was offended by my comments, I certainly apologize. There was no ill will, no intent whatsoever in my statements...This comment was twisted and it was turned into a weapon to be used against me. A political weapon used for nothing but personal and political gain by my opponent.”
Completely accurate. There was NOTHING racist in the comment. NOTHING that praised lynching, or even public hangings - which often involved whites! There is nothing a white candidate can say that cannot be twisted by ill will to paint the white candidate as a racist. So we either need to concede, or FIGHT BACK! Lose the language, and communication becomes impossible!
“It will be a disaster if MS delivers another RAT to the Senate after the whole debacle next door in Alabama.”
So don’t! This is “No time to go wobbly.” I don’t give a damn if she is a RINO. She said nothing wrong, and she’ll vote 100% FOR Trump judges while Espy will vote 100% against!
This is in no way similar to Alabama. She isn’t being accused of running around with kids. She’s being accused of using the word “hanging” in public! OMG! What is next? A clip of her saying “Niggardly”?
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posted on
11/21/2018 9:23:24 PM PST
by
Mr Rogers
(Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
To: lodi90
The GOP(e) did not defeat Judge Roy Moore in Alabama.....Judge Roy Moore defeated himself by riding around on that stupid horse of his and not campaigning “Hard” during the last weekend of his Senate campaign. Moore was a seriously flawed candidate...on many counts!!!
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posted on
11/21/2018 11:26:47 PM PST
by
JLAGRAYFOX
(Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
To: JLAGRAYFOX
POTUS, Trump was right on the money when he chose to support Interim Alabama Senator, Luther Strange over the “Odd” Judge, Roy Moore. Had the voters of Alabama chosen Strange as their Senate candidate...we would have another GOP Senator...Today!!!
By the way Luther Strange voted with POTUS, Trump, 100% during his short term as an appointed Senator. And Ms. Cindy Hyde-Smith has supported and voted with our great POTUS, Trump 100%...also!!!
Every legal registered voter, all of you, no matter your political slant, in MS better get off their butts, come out to the voting booths next Tuesday, November 27, 2018 and cast their vote for Ms. Hyde-Smith. Shucks...it’s a no brainer!!!
Just remember, MS voters, a victory for Ms. Cindy Hyde-Smith makes POTUS, Trump, the King-Of-The-Hill of the Mid-Term Elections. The POTUS has already caused the victory of Sixteen (16) major Senate & Governor slots, by his non-stop, heavy, successful, massive, campaigning.
Trump now controls the Executive Branch, The Senate Branch and the Judiciary Branch of the Federal Government. The Democrat House can do nothing but make noise..period. A stunning victory by Republican Senate Candidate, Cindy Hyde-Smith would be a powerful message that POTUS, Donald J. Trump will be easily re-elected in 2020!!!
Go, Trump, Go, Hyde-Smith, Go, GOP, GOTV, GO, Trump MEGA & MAGA political rallies in MS, next Monday, November 26, 2018 in Tupelo and Biloxi, MS
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posted on
11/21/2018 11:50:53 PM PST
by
JLAGRAYFOX
(Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
To: Mr Rogers
She will win, but she’s still not one of Mississippi’s best and brightest. I don’t get to vote there, but I still have a right to voice my opinion. It’s just too bad that as you say, we have to fight back. If she were a better candidate “fighting back” would not have been necessary.
The same could be said for the race in Alabama. Roy Moore is a loony toon! And unfortunately for the GOP, he failed to win a race that like the one now in MS we should have won going away. That was a huge loss all around! The country got that A$$HOLE Sessions for AG for nearly two years! The little pud “played Trump, and made Mueller possible, and you can’t argue that Mueller hasn’t been a huge drag on the Trump Agenda. Finally, at the end of the day, we’ve lost a Senate seat to the RATs for six years! Hyde-Smith is Roy Moore in a skirt!
To: Timmy
Exactly - it’s not like Blacks were the only race to ever be hanged - didn’t hear them whining when Saddam was hanged....
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posted on
11/22/2018 3:00:23 AM PST
by
trebb
(Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
To: jyo19
Did you mean to reply to someone else? I don't recall spreading the KKKrat lie.
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posted on
11/22/2018 7:20:00 AM PST
by
kiryandil
(Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
To: vette6387
I voted for Martha McSally. I despised her when we were both in the military. She was the GOP-E candidate who sucked up briefly to Trump in hopes he could carry her on his back into the Senate. She ran a cautious, “make no mistakes” race - and lost to a leftist who pretended to be a centrist and who made many gaffes - calling the state the “meth lab of democracy”, attacking stay at home moms, etc.
I’ve only voted FOR a candidate in a general election a couple of times in my life.
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posted on
11/22/2018 7:42:26 AM PST
by
Mr Rogers
(Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
To: Mr Rogers
” and lost to a leftist who pretended to be a centrist and who made many gaffes - calling the state the meth lab of democracy, attacking stay at home moms, etc.”
Sinema is also a Mormon, graduate of BYU! Oh how far the Mormon Church has fallen. With Harry Reid, Jeff Flake, Dean Heller, and Mitt Romney. I bailed on it 50 years ago.
To: vette6387
Sinema is also a MormonOne too many m's.
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posted on
11/22/2018 8:06:59 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: vette6387
I agree, and she will NOT get my vote.
You need to read a post I did from Rush, years ago.
But the important, take-to-heart logic is below.
There's no way in hell I can compromise my values.
Jack Kerwick wrote an article on May 24, 2011 titled
The Tea Partier versus The Republican and he expressed some important issues that I agree with.
Thus far, the field of GOP presidential contenders, actual and potential, isnt looking too terribly promising.
This, though, isnt meant to suggest that any of the candidates, all things being equal, lack what it takes to insure
that Barack Obama never sees the light of a second term; nor is it the case that I find none of the candidates appealing.
Rather, I simply mean that at this juncture, the party faithful is far from unanimously energized over any of them.
It is true that it was the rapidity and aggressiveness with which President Obama proceeded to impose his perilous designs upon the country
that proved to be the final spark to ignite the Tea Party movement.
But the chain of events that lead to its emergence began long before Obama was elected.
That is, it was actually the disenchantment with the Republican Party under our compassionate conservative president, George W. Bush,
which overcame legions of conservatives that was the initial inspiration that gave rise to the Tea Party.
It is this frustration with the GOPs betrayal of the values that it affirms that accounts for why the overwhelming majority
of those who associate with or otherwise sympathize with the Tea Party movement
refuse to explicitly or formally identify with the Republican Party.
And it is this frustration that informs the Tea Partiers threat to create a third party
in the event that the GOP continues business as usual.
If and when those conservatives and libertarians who compose the bulk of the Tea Party, decided that the Republican establishment
has yet to learn the lessons of 06 and 08, choose to follow through with their promise,
they will invariably be met by Republicans with two distinct but interrelated objections.
First, they will be told that they are utopian, purists foolishly holding out for an ideal candidate.
Second, because virtually all members of the Tea Party would have otherwise voted Republican if not for this new third party, they will be castigated for essentially giving elections away to Democrats.
Both of these criticisms are, at best, misplaced; at worst, they are just disingenuous.
At any rate, they are easily answerable.
Lets begin with the argument against purism. To this line, two replies are in the coming.
No one, as far as I have ever been able to determine, refuses to vote for anyone who isnt an ideal candidate.
Ideal candidates, by definition, dont exist.
This, after all, is what makes them ideal.
This counter-objection alone suffices to expose the argument of the Anti-Purist as so much counterfeit.
But there is another consideration that militates decisively against it.
A Tea Partier who refrains from voting for a Republican candidate who shares few if any of his beliefs
can no more be accused of holding out for an ideal candidate
than can someone who refuses to marry a person with whom he has little to anything in common
be accused of holding out for an ideal spouse.
In other words, the object of the argument against purism is the most glaring of straw men:I will not vote for a thoroughly flawed candidate is one thing;
I will only vote for a perfect candidate is something else entirely.
As for the second objection against the Tea Partiers rejection of those Republican candidates who eschew his values and convictions,
it can be dispensed with just as effortlessly as the first.
Every election seasonand at no time more so than this past seasonRepublicans pledge to reform Washington, trim down the federal government, and so forth.
Once, however, they get elected and they conduct themselves with none of the confidence and enthusiasm with which they expressed themselves on the campaign trail,
those who placed them in office are treated to one lecture after the other on the need for compromise and patience.
Well, when the Tea Partiers impatience with establishment Republican candidates intimates a Democratic victory,
he can use this same line of reasoning against his Republican critics.
My dislike for the Democratic Party is second to none, he can insist.
But in order to advance in the long run my conservative or Constitutionalist values, it may be necessary to compromise some in the short term.
For example,
as Glenn Beck once correctly noted in an interview with Katie Couric,
had John McCain been elected in 2008, it is not at all improbable that, in the final analysis,
the country would have been worse off than it is under a President Obama.
McCain would have furthered the countrys leftward drift,
but because this movement would have been slower,
and because McCain is a Republican, it is not likely that the apparent awakening that occurred under Obama would have occurred under McCain.
It may be worth it, the Tea Partier can tell Republicans, for the GOP to lose some elections if it means that conservativesand the countrywill ultimately win.
If he didnt know it before, the Tea Partier now knows that accepting short-term loss in exchange for long-term gain is the essence of compromise, the essence of politics.
Ironically, he can thank the Republican for impressing this so indelibly upon him.
I'm fresh out of
"patience", and I'm not in the mood for
"compromise".
"COMPROMISE" to me is a dirty word.
Let the
RINO's compromise their values, with the conservatives, for a change.
The "Establishment Republicans" can go to hell!
We can replace the DemocRAT that wins (either Espy or Hyde-Smith) in TWO YEARS !
It may be worth it !
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posted on
11/22/2018 8:31:13 AM PST
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: JLAGRAYFOX
WRONG!
He chose another
"ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICAN" over a REAL CONSERVATIVE in JUDGE Roy Moore.
Judge Roy Moore won that election.
Did you watch the live coverage of the vote count?
Did you watch the youtube.com video that shows the reduction in the total count of over 2,000 votes (
16,028 dropped to 14,321 Roy Moore Write-in votes) of the COMPUTER TOTAL for JUDGE Roy Moore in just one minute, from 6:58 to 6:59 of the LIVE running voting COMPUTER COUNT video Seth Abramson posted, that he shows in his own video ?
Start at 4 minutes 33 seconds into
THE VIDEO and go until 16:20, the end of the video.
Tell me ...
WHEN does a running total vote count GO DOWN, and NOT UP ?
The live feed from the Alabama Secretary of State Live Reporting of the Alabama US Senate General Election VERIFIED the voter fraud, and ALL the networks showed it in LIVE TIME.
Judge Roy Moores Write-In Vote totals WENT DOWN from 24,000 to 16,000, and then WENT DOWN to 14,000 votes !
You want to explain JUST HOW that happens with the time stamped screen shots,
without being FRAUD by someone manipulating the totals in LIVE TIME ?
That's 10,000 write-in votes right there ....THAT WERE FLIPPED FROM JUDGE Roy Moore, TO Doug Jones; making a difference of 20,000 Votes stolen. And that's ASSUMING that Judge Roy Moore got ZERO more votes while the "Vote Flipping" was being done !
Research
Bev Harris.
Watch this video about the same voting machine software that Alabama uses :
Things have changed!
Bennie Smith, a Memphis computer programmer, discovered HOW this is done through a
" ... a GEMS tabulatorfor Global Election Management Systemwhich is a personal computer installed with Diebold software that sits in a windowless room in the countys election headquarters.
The tabulator is the brains of the system.
It monitors the voting machines, sorts out which machines have delivered data and which havent, and tallies the results.
As voting machines check in and their votes are included in the official count, each machines status turns green on the GEMS master panel.
A red light means the upload has failed.
At the end of Memphiss election night in October 2015, there was no indication from the technician running Shelby Countys GEMS tabulator that any voting machine hadnt checked in or that any votes had gone missing, according to election commission e-mails obtained by Bloomberg Businessweek.
Yet as county technicians followed up on the evidence from Smiths poll-tape photo, they discovered more votes that never made it into the election night count, all from precincts with large concentrations of black voters. ... "
Diebold Election Systems changed its name in 2006 to
Premier Election Solutions.
Bloomberg's article titled
How to Protect Against Election Day Hacking gives more proof of this by Memphis computer programmer Bennie Smith.
"... The method Smith used to catch the problem should be a playbook for any candidate, party or concerned citizen worried about the accurate tallying of their votes:Smith snapped some pictures of printed voting tallies (known as poll tapes) at a high-turnout polling location and then compared the results there to the electronic tabulations.
This is a very good, if labor-intensive, way to check to ensure that votes are being counted correctly.
Smith has created a proof-of-concept program called Fraction Magic, showing how corrupt officials could tamper with GEMS to manipulate election outcomes.
This map shows all the locations across the U.S. that use the GEMS vote-tabulation system as of Nov 2016.
... "
For more on STEALING ELECTIONS WITH COMPUTERS and
Technology Cybercrimes, watch Bloomberg's
Digital Defense November 3, 2016 (19:40).
To better understand
"THE MASTER KEY" to stealing elections with computers, watch:
SO ... Someone had better record the LIVE VOTE COUNTING IN MISSISSIPPI .
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posted on
11/22/2018 8:36:16 AM PST
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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