Meadows wasn't just a jerk during the Cohen testimony, he's a jerk all the time

Would be interesting to see a list of all gerrymandered rethug squatters

the Committee hearing yesterday. A lot of people were glued to the hearing all day long (including me).

I live in the heavily Democratic 4th District in NC. It's one of the few Democratic districts that couldn't be shifted by the Republican gerrymandering of 2011. NC really has been a purple state. It went for Obama in 2008. Prior to the gerrymandering, we had an almost even split of Democratic/Republican Representatives to Congress. It used be 7/6 one way or the other. It's now 10 Repubs to 3 Dems as a result of the gerrymandering.

The damn Republicans in the State Legislature have been ordered several times by the Supreme Court to fix the gerrymandered district maps, and they just shine it. I have nothing but contempt for Republicans in this state and it's in part, because of this cheating mentality.

And we've been living with this for almost a decade because Dems didn't turn out in the mid-terms of 2010 and the State House was overtaken by Republicans who then gerrymandered the hell out of the Congressional district maps.

The gerrymandering is so obvious when you look at the maps and see the hole made by taking Asheville away from the 11th and putting it in the 10th.

Tapes have surfaced since yesterday of Meadows telling Obama to go back to Kenya. He's a birther POS. I really do not know how/why Cummings is friends with him. Cummings must just be an amazingly gracious and tolerant person.

And Tlaib should apologize for apologizing.

Or he serves on a committee with him and has to have Meadow's help to succeed. Sometimes you have to go a long way out of your way to come back a short distance correctly.

Or was it un-killed again?

which takes 5 minutes on a computer.

The Court struck down the revised maps and told them to do it again. That's when they got away with whining about how close it was to the election so they couldn't possibly do new districts.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/04/north-carolina-redistricting-midterms-807155

Republicans are a bunch of whiny little cheaters. I really have no respect for them.

and explained what happened when the freshman Congresswoman called him out for the racist stunt when he had a black woman who works in the Administration stand by Meadows side--saying nothing--while Meadows spoke for her.

ODonnell showed clips from Meadows' 2012 campaign where he talked about sending Obama back to Kenya. Lawrence called Meadows a racist and said he wasn't bound by Congressional rules of decorum so would not be apologizing.

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of NC. NC is of interest to me. We need to not be shy about being Democrats.

I had two of them (second cousins) on my list when I made GOTV calls for my congressman, LOL. I explained to just those two who I was.

supported the Union were slave owners. I feel like I have some karma to work through.

The one who was the governor of NC became a Confederate congressman, the one who was governor of Kentucky was arrested when Lincoln suspended habeas corpus and imprisoned without due process and when released went to South America for the rest of the war.. One of his nephews won a posthumous Medal of Honor for his part in the Andersonville Raid (The Great Train Chase).

The son of the NC governor donated the equivalent of $120M on 2019 dollars to the NC state university and was a founder of Union Carbide.

We have a complicated history.

And as Bill Maher described in this week's "New Rules," we cannot look at the past by today's standards. That was the way things were back then and it's not up to us to judge them - they did the best they could with what they knew at the time.

Aside from my Dutch grandmother whose ancestors go way back, my mother's parents (Polish) and my Dad's paternal grandparents (Irish) "came over on the last boat," as my mother described it. But they all served, both of my grandfathers served in WWI. My mother's father arrived in this country, they made him a citizen and sent him to France - and my paternal grandfather served on horseback, delivering ammunition to the front - while his brother (my great uncle) who signed up with him was in the worst of the fighting and was awarded the Silver Star. I went to a ceremony honoring him just last year. So I'm proud of my ancestors and you should be too!

Please take us up on weighing in on our North Carolina Group! I have friends and family in NC-10 and they vote Democratic, Western NC is a beautiful part of the state!

North Carolina (Group)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1069

FWIW, I posted a quick note at Steve's web page, suggesting he return for a few short minutes to introduce himself to the North Carolina group.

We'll see where this goes.

I read there post, checked them out and came here to give them Kudos!