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If you haven’t seen Rep. Jenny Horne‘s speech lecturing her neoConfederate colleagues for their day-long effort to obstruct South Carolina from doing the right thing, you need to stop whatever you are doing and watch it.
NOW.
I have nothing else to say, because this Charleston Republican says it ALL.
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I watched it live (am still wearily watching the debate) and it brought me to tears.
God bless her. I wish I could vote for her.
Rep. Joe Neal told me afterward he never thought he’d live to hear a House Republican tell such truths as that, much less with such power and clarity.
I loved it when she said, in expressing how sick she was of hearing about heritage, “I am a direct descendant of Jefferson Davis — OKAY?”
Like top that, you pathetic pack of ancestor-worshippers…
Yes, that was great. I also thought Rep. Neal’s comments on his ancestry were powerful.
I’m still watching, too. I’m exhausted but I will continue to watch to do very end…
Well, they’re trying to wrap up, and they’re making various maneuvers with Ott’s resolution, and I have to confess that at this point in the evening, I am confused. I am many things, but not an expert on parliamentary procedure…
But I understood perfectly what Rep. Horne was saying…
If you want a bunch of rules to run your life and your government, this is perfection for you.
These same bozos come up with the tax code.
I’m confused too. I’ve been using this page to try and help:
http://www.scstatehouse.gov/studentpage/coolstuff/glossary.shtml
Sometimes it does. But I thought they said they were gonna recur to the morning. I guess that doesn’t mean what it sounds like it ought to. Recurring is not happening yet.
Well, that’s probably most lopsided vote of the day on adjournment. I’ll hang in as long as they well!
James Smith is reminding them what a dishonor it is to soldiers who fought and died for that flag to be flying.
He wishes Robert E. Lee could be hear tonight to set these obstructionists straight. So do I. So do I…
“The flag is furled… maintain your soldierly honor…”
“A symbolic middle finger” to the federal government that passed the Voting Rights Act: James Smith’s characterization of the meaning of our keeping that flag up after 1965…
I think Rick Quinn is upset with Jenny Horne.
Just emailed Sandifer to express my dissatisfaction with his position. Glad he didn’t prevail.
And he wasn’t there for the third reading. Geewhiz…
Stayed up til 1:30 watching. My wife is irritated but it was history in the making. Not pretty that’s for sure but it ended up as it should have.
I watched it all too. The last bit from bed fading in and out of consciousness.
I envy y’all. I missed it. I had been at the State House earlier in the evening, but headed home during the recess after Rep. Horne’s speech.
Things were going great watching the feed on the Web until a little after midnight, when I lost it. Too exhausted to drive back downtown, I went to bed not knowing…
We watched it on the web until about then too. The guide didn’t say it but turns out it was on one of the ETV channels too. My husband started flipping around to see just in case and he found it. We switched to that when the feed got slow – in the middle of Smith talking. He kept freezing.
That’s why I still have an outside TV antenna. Uverse up here in Seneca only carries the primary channels of the local stations. With my outside antenna, I can get all of the sub channels, including all of the ETV sub channels (one of which was entirely devoted to debate coverage). Too bad, though, that someone in master control at ETV Central didn’t notice that the county in which Clemson University resides is spelled ‘Pickens’ and not ‘Pickins’…
WaPo has a nice follow-up interview with her this morning.
I am thankful for her presence in the House, and I am thankful that I’ve never had to spend time with Mike Pitts.
That’s a good article. I think Smith, Ott, Neal, and Stavrinakis should get some credit too. And Cobb-Hunter just for sheer tenacity with her questions for Mr. Speaker.
What was with Rep Mike Pitts not even voting after that day of his?
I would like to see a series of maps by state rep district of the major house votes last night. Not just the final vote.
Rep. Horne is a Representative, a South Carolinian, and a southern lady we can all be proud of!
I was following it on twitter until about midnight.
What a phony. She’s no Meryl Streep.
Rep. Horne’s speech was awesome. And she did a fantastic job questioning Rep. Merrill too, regarding Rick Quinn’s amendment that stalled everything for quite some time before Rep. Quinn eventually asked people to vote against it so that the bill would stay clean, so we could get the flag down today instead of later or never.
Here’s the link.
She wasn’t awesome.
If she could mourn the dead – “crying in five accents” – that would be awesome.
I’d laugh at your good joke but I’m not ready to just yet.
For a communications consultant, he’s got quite a way with words. But then he did name his firm Geechie Communications; so this skill of his goes way back.