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applegrove

(118,749 posts)
Wed Feb 6, 2019, 06:47 PM Feb 2019

GOP congressman tries to have Parkland dad ejected from hearing on gun violence

GOP congressman tries to have Parkland dad ejected from hearing on gun violence

"If we really cared about safer streets, we would build a wall and secure the border."

FRANK DALE at Think Politics

https://thinkprogress.org/matt-gaetz-parkland-shooting-gun-violence-house-judiciary-committee-hearing-lucy-mcbath-jerry-nadler-5125202b1966/

"SNIP....

The House held its first hearing on gun violence in eight years on Wednesday, an emotional event that featured speeches from relatives of gun victims and school shooting survivors.

Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee could be seen wiping tears from their eyes during testimony. That was not the case, however, for Republicans at the hearing.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) tried to get the parent of a Parkland victim removed from the hearing room, then began ranting about “illegal aliens” and shouting “if we really cared about safer streets, we would build a wall and secure the border.”

......

Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter was murdered in the Parkland school shooting last year, noted that most Republicans on the panel left the room roughly 15 minutes into the hearing.

.....SNIP"


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GOP congressman tries to have Parkland dad ejected from hearing on gun violence (Original Post) applegrove Feb 2019 OP
K & R for exposure of GOP deplorables. nt SunSeeker Feb 2019 #1
This is HUGE malaise Feb 2019 #2
Pro Life I tell ya kwolf68 Feb 2019 #3
Matt Gaetz HopeAgain Feb 2019 #4
Whiny Gopers ZapataViva Feb 2019 #11
The Committee should have taken a vote on whether or not to remove Matt Gaetz. RockRaven Feb 2019 #5
Tells you all you need to know about the GOP. sheshe2 Feb 2019 #6
All this talk about "Angel Moms" ehrnst Feb 2019 #7
NRA supporters would rather have dead children than gun control. keithbvadu2 Feb 2019 #14
If there is video of this hearing kacekwl Feb 2019 #8
Here's part of the deplorable's spectacle PSPS Feb 2019 #9
You are a worse than deplorable...shut the fuck up! BigmanPigman Feb 2019 #13
What an entitled punk PatSeg Feb 2019 #25
Because, yeah...immigrants are shooting up schools. forgotmylogin Feb 2019 #10
I will not watch the video. I just can't. TNNurse Feb 2019 #12
They stood up in the audience and criticized onenote Feb 2019 #29
Saw it this morning. He was lying his ass off TNNurse Feb 2019 #30
Agree that they were provoked onenote Feb 2019 #32
That Gaetz guy is a disgusting excuse for a human being. This is the way he is! Deplorable. George II Feb 2019 #15
Republicans, for the most part, are horrible people. Garrett78 Feb 2019 #16
FUCK YOU GAETZ 47of74 Feb 2019 #17
Zactly. Duppers Feb 2019 #21
Yeah I fucking hate them. 47of74 Feb 2019 #22
I had no idea.. Fuzzpope Feb 2019 #18
i'm assuming you're being sarcastic, barbtries Feb 2019 #23
Yes, I'm being sarcastic. Fuzzpope Feb 2019 #24
How that guy can even leave his house, little alone get elected is beyond me... PeeJ52 Feb 2019 #19
This is Joe Scarborough's old Congressional District. nkpolitics1212 Feb 2019 #20
"most Republicans on the panel left the room roughly 15 minutes into the hearing. " riversedge Feb 2019 #26
Gaetz is the scum of the earth. He wouldn't appreciate the meaning of the hearing unless Vinca Feb 2019 #27
The dad was just on Morning Joe Gothmog Feb 2019 #28
It was great that he got to speak fully without some nickel time ... MFGsunny Feb 2019 #33
He was a gofer for Trump before the last election, just like Devin Nunez... kentuck Feb 2019 #31
Disgusting ck4829 Feb 2019 #34

kwolf68

(7,365 posts)
3. Pro Life I tell ya
Wed Feb 6, 2019, 06:51 PM
Feb 2019

Put carcinogens in our water and air, wage perpetual war, ignore parents who's children are gunned down because of your inability to promote sensible safeguards on these instruments of death.

You don't even have the stones to sit through a testimony. The Republicans are ignorant fascists, but maybe most importantly they are cowards.

HopeAgain

(4,407 posts)
4. Matt Gaetz
Wed Feb 6, 2019, 06:51 PM
Feb 2019

Is the most deplorable of the deplorable. He is a true fucking idiot and he deserves the worst. This is the kind of politician the NRA loves.

RockRaven

(14,985 posts)
5. The Committee should have taken a vote on whether or not to remove Matt Gaetz.
Wed Feb 6, 2019, 07:01 PM
Feb 2019

Or at least install a breathalyzer lock on his microphone like they do with drunks and car ignitions (Gaetz has got a DUI history).

 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
7. All this talk about "Angel Moms"
Wed Feb 6, 2019, 07:13 PM
Feb 2019

But clearly some dead kids are "worth more" than others, to put it in terms the pro-forced childbirth brigade would understand.



keithbvadu2

(36,870 posts)
14. NRA supporters would rather have dead children than gun control.
Wed Feb 6, 2019, 08:40 PM
Feb 2019

NRA supporters would rather have dead children than gun control.

To the gun industry, dead children are merely collateral damage/acceptable losses for gun industry profits and political donations.

-----------------------------

Joe The Plumber: ‘Your Dead Kids Don’t Trump My Constitutional Rights’ To Have Guns

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/27/joe-the-plumber-guns_n_5397981.html

kacekwl

(7,021 posts)
8. If there is video of this hearing
Wed Feb 6, 2019, 07:23 PM
Feb 2019

please use it for all it is worth . Talking to you Democratic leadership.

BigmanPigman

(51,623 posts)
13. You are a worse than deplorable...shut the fuck up!
Wed Feb 6, 2019, 08:27 PM
Feb 2019

I wouldn't drive theough his district, let alone ever live in a place who would elect such an ass. What is up with FL? Is it one step forward and two steps back for politicians in that state.

Chris Hayes just showed this on his show tonight. Good!

PatSeg

(47,560 posts)
25. What an entitled punk
Wed Feb 6, 2019, 11:28 PM
Feb 2019

This is the jerk who used his father's influence to get out of a DUI and received 16 speeding tickets between 1999 and 2014. Last year he invited a white supremacist holocaust denier to the State of the Union address. He couldn't be much more worthless.

TNNurse

(6,929 posts)
12. I will not watch the video. I just can't.
Wed Feb 6, 2019, 08:21 PM
Feb 2019

Did this father do or say something in particular that set this despicable person off???

onenote

(42,739 posts)
29. They stood up in the audience and criticized
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 10:33 AM
Feb 2019

Last edited Thu Feb 7, 2019, 12:09 PM - Edit history (1)

What Gaetz was saying. The Committee chair admonished them for doing so but a short while later one of the did it again

onenote

(42,739 posts)
32. Agree that they were provoked
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 12:11 PM
Feb 2019

But I've attended hundreds of Congressional hearings, and have only seen someone speak out from the audience a couple of times and they've been admonished to stop and/or have been removed from the hearing.

Gaetz is a low life who is barely qualified to flip burgers, let alone serve as a member of Congress. But the story should have presented the context rather than ignoring it.

Duppers

(28,125 posts)
21. Zactly.
Wed Feb 6, 2019, 09:16 PM
Feb 2019

Last edited Wed Feb 6, 2019, 11:45 PM - Edit history (1)

Find a rethug that's not "hateable" at some level.

I hate them all.

 

PeeJ52

(1,588 posts)
19. How that guy can even leave his house, little alone get elected is beyond me...
Wed Feb 6, 2019, 09:03 PM
Feb 2019

I've never seen a more disgusting excuse for a human in my life. He doesn't have one ounce of self respect. He'll say anything to become Faux News' hero.

Vinca

(50,300 posts)
27. Gaetz is the scum of the earth. He wouldn't appreciate the meaning of the hearing unless
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 09:09 AM
Feb 2019

it was his kid laying on the ground with his brains splayed around him. He might not even get it then.

Gothmog

(145,482 posts)
28. The dad was just on Morning Joe
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 09:55 AM
Feb 2019

This congressman is pond scum.

No parent should have to bury their child

MFGsunny

(2,356 posts)
33. It was great that he got to speak fully without some nickel time ...
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 02:49 PM
Feb 2019

... artificial "sound bite" time limitation. I, for one, was very impressed at his depth of knowledge and sticking to facts rather than histrionics!

kentuck

(111,110 posts)
31. He was a gofer for Trump before the last election, just like Devin Nunez...
Thu Feb 7, 2019, 11:37 AM
Feb 2019

They will be lucky if they are not charged with breaking some law.

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