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Frustrated by weeks of protests, a North Carolina lawmaker has lashed out at what he calls gutless wonders in public office who are bowing down to Black Lives Matter.
Republican Rep. Larry Pittman of Cabarrus County called protesters ignorant thugs, criminals, domestic terrorists and vermin. If they resist and attack police, he said they should shoot them.
This is war, he wrote on Facebook Monday. Our people have a right to expect our leaders to be on our side, not surrender to the lawless, godless mob.
Pittman, 65, is running for his fifth term. He faces Democrat Gail Young in November.
His Facebook post came in response to the protests for racial justice that have swept the country following the police killing of George Floyd of Minneapolis.
These vermin dont care about George Floyd or any other individual, except maybe their financial sponsor, George Soros, Pittman wrote. They are bent on destroying our country and our way of life, and they will use any tragedy, any slogan, any excuse to convince clueless people that their radical injustice is justice.
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article243568942.html#storylink=cpy
Thekaspervote
(32,793 posts)dalton99a
(81,570 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Mariana
(14,860 posts)Well, not really.
love_katz
(2,584 posts)THEY are the thugs, THEY are the vermin, THEY are the criminals and terrorists. THEY are the virus: racism, sexism, classism and greed, and complete contempt for our constitution, bill of rights, and our actual laws. THEY are the epitome of ignorance and hate. They just believe that if they shout lies long enough and loudly enough that people will swallow the poison they keep pumping out. May they experience nothing except overwhelming defeat!
struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)By Colin Campbell
APRIL 12, 2017 03:48 PM , UPDATED APRIL 13, 2017 01:58 PM
N.C. Rep. Larry Pittman, a Concord Republican, said in a Facebook post Wednesday that President Abraham Lincoln was a tyrant similar to Germanys Adolf Hitler.
Pittman was responding to commenters on his campaign Facebook page who were criticizing his bill that would have directed state government to defy a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and restore the state constitutions ban on same-sex marriage. House Speaker Tim Moore said Wednesday that the bill is dead and wont get a hearing.
A commenter reminded Pittman that the Supreme Court ruling settled the law on gay marriage and that the lawmaker should get over it ...
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article144216324.html
struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)By Rebekah BarberDecember 18, 2019
... The N.C. Heritage PAC ... contributed .. $2,000 .. to .. Larry Pittman ...
https://www.facingsouth.org/2019/12/sons-confederate-veterans-funding-political-candidates-north-carolina
Skittles
(153,193 posts)get the fuck RID of that racist, anti-Semitic piece of GARBAGE
DFW
(54,436 posts)They don't seem to have another Bogey Man in their inventory.
Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)and stirring up trouble for our people crap from the 60s.
Racist slogans never really change.