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pstokely

(10,529 posts)
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 10:20 PM Jun 2018

Hawley, who said Washington 'doesn't even pretend to listen to us,' will raise money in D.C.

Source: St Louis Post Dispatch

WASHINGTON • In March, Republican Senate candidate and Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley said this about Washington, D.C., in front of about 150 supporters gathered at a farm near Chesterfield:

"We are fighting for the heartland now. Washington, D.C., disrespects us. It disregards us. The political class doesn’t even pretend to listen to us. The liberal elites who call themselves our leaders refer to us as flyover country — and they mean it.”

Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., whom Hawley is trying to unseat, "is the face of Washington's failure," Hawley said then.

Next week, Hawley will hold at least two fundraisers in Washington, D.C.

Read more: https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/hawley-who-said-washington-doesn-t-even-pretend-to-listen/article_07721671-d96d-5581-a57b-6ee5362ca568.html

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Hawley, who said Washington 'doesn't even pretend to listen to us,' will raise money in D.C. (Original Post) pstokely Jun 2018 OP
It doesn't matter if they listen to us Sherman A1 Jun 2018 #1
"liberal elites" The Genealogist Jun 2018 #2
and former law school proof pstokely Jun 2018 #3
The only two persons I know who use the term "flyover country" spooky3 Jun 2018 #4

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
1. It doesn't matter if they listen to us
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 10:26 PM
Jun 2018

As long as they listen to him and fill up the collection plate.

The young man certainly is in a hurry to get onto another job. Must be boring to be the State AG.

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