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Flying Squid@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

GOP senator tells Arab American witness at hate crimes hearing to 'hide your head in a bag'

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GOP senator tells Arab American witness at hate crimes hearing to 'hide your head in a bag'

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Flying Squid@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 8 months ago
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Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana also repeatedly suggested the witness, a leading Arab American activist, supports Hamas even as she repeatedly denied it.
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    The guy is a senator. He was voted in by his state.

    If they don’t want to be represented by him, they should have voted him out in 2022.

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      New Orleans doesn’t have the voting power to do that. Orleans Parish was literally the only parish that went blue in that election.

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      One city cannot vote out a senator an entire state voted in.

      All mayors of New Orleans since 1872 have been Democrats.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_of_New_Orleans

      Several mayors, including the current mayor, have been black too.

      Do you think people voting black Democrats into the mayor’s office want John Kennedy representing them?

      Edit: The entire city council are also Democrats.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_City_Council

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      New Orleans is the only parish in the entire state where he didn’t win the vote, with only 16.2% voting for him.

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      My guess is him being a Republican he only “won” due to voter suppression and gerrymandering. I would be shocked if he even had the popular vote.

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        He’s a senator, so prepared to be shocked.

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      You do know that the city and county (parish) is New Orleans are the same thing? It’s actually a very small area and not a dense city. You really know nothing able the area.

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