hammer1 said:
The surprise is going to be in new young voters 21 thru 25 that are being registered as new voters in voting drives, We are running 80 % kerry voters.
Also the Kerry backers are highly educated and familiar with the issues unlike the beer belly right wingers that blindly wanna "kick some ass".
I guess besides Punkvoter.com, M. Moore is handing out more clean underwear than I thought- hope he saves an XXXL for himself. As for the highly educated Kerry backers- maybe you missed the Bezerkely thread :thinking: - not saying all Kerry's supporters are that 'far out,' just saying all Kerry's supporters are not highly educated.
Thursday, October 7, 2004 ?
Pa. state Senate debate turns ugly
By MARK SCOLFORO
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A debate in the usually sedate state Senate chamber dissolved into mudslinging, with a senior Democrat using a derogatory term for homosexuals to denounce a Republican leader.
Republican President Pro Tempore Robert C. Jubelirer on Thursday demanded an apology, and Democratic Sen. Vincent C. Fumo later admitted to "a very unfortunate word choice."
The name-calling erupted Wednesday night during a debate on a slot machine gambling bill passed last July.
"He called me a faggot," Jubelirer related Thursday. "And then I said, 'What did you say?' and he screamed it. If he has an issue with me, that's fine. But to use that term, 'faggot,' to me was a black mark, not only on him but the institution."
No video cameras captured the tirade. But Radio Pennsylvania reporter Ray Smith heard it. "Sen. Fumo used the epithet four times that I counted," he said.
Smith said the shock on lawmakers' faces was obvious.
"I guess he believes the stereotype of that ugly word is someone who is effeminate and doesn't have much courage," Jubelirer said.
Fumo conceded he "made a mistake." In a statement Thursday, he said he was "especially sorry about using the term because it is not the way I feel in my heart toward gays."
The Philadelphia lawmaker also phoned to apologize to longtime friend Mark Segal, publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News and a 30-year lobbyist on gay issues.
"Vince Fumo has one of the best track records of voting for, sponsoring and co-sponsoring legislation for gay and lesbian citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania of any senator serving or who has served in the past," Segal said.
The incident occurred after Republicans invoked an obscure parliamentary rule to cut off debate on a package of changes to the gambling bill. The move short-circuited the Democrats' hopes of bringing up amendments of their own and Fumo went ballistic, according to witnesses.
"I should have called them 'girlie men,'" he told reporters later. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger used the same insult to deride Democratic lawmakers in his state.