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« on: June 03, 2010, 10:04:15 PM »

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« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2010, 10:07:04 PM »
« Edited: June 03, 2010, 10:11:48 PM by Lafayette53 »

I hope he promptly gets voted out of office. Unfortunately he'll probably get a pat on the back for being anti-big government and someone not afraid to stand up Obama's NKVD.

I'll admit that's hyperbole, but when it comes to a state senator making racist comments us colored folk tend to get a bit riled up. Wink
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« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2010, 10:11:51 PM »

When is there going to be an Indian officeholder who isn't a convert?
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« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2010, 10:38:58 PM »

I honestly don't get how some elected officials simply don't care if they offend people.
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« Reply #4 on: June 03, 2010, 10:47:22 PM »

Lord. I wish Bauer would just disappear. The man is trash.
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« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2010, 11:08:52 PM »

Politicians like that just ruin our states image. I don't understand how they don't seem to have any sense. I can easily disagree with practically every last one of his positions but all i have to do is point to these ridiculous comments. What a disgrace.   
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« Reply #6 on: June 03, 2010, 11:26:51 PM »

Politicians like that just ruin our states image. I don't understand how they don't seem to have any sense. I can easily disagree with practically every last one of his positions but all i have to do is point to these ridiculous comments. What a disgrace.   

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« Reply #7 on: June 03, 2010, 11:30:46 PM »

Politicians like that just ruin our states image. I don't understand how they don't seem to have any sense. I can easily disagree with practically every last one of his positions but all i have to do is point to these ridiculous comments. What a disgrace.   

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« Reply #8 on: June 04, 2010, 12:11:01 AM »

When is there going to be an Indian officeholder who isn't a convert?

When one runs as a Democrat.
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« Reply #9 on: June 04, 2010, 12:22:41 AM »

When is there going to be an Indian officeholder who isn't a convert?

When one runs as a Democrat.

We have one in Minnesota, and yes, he is not a convert. He is a Hindu, and his fundie opponent last election was known for trying to convert him to Christianity in her concession to him.

He's also now under some corruption heat though, and it's quite likely that he'll lose the primary.
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« Reply #10 on: June 04, 2010, 12:24:10 AM »

When is there going to be an Indian officeholder who isn't a convert?

When one runs as a Democrat.

We have one in Minnesota, and yes, he is not a convert. He is a Hindu, and his fundie opponent last election was known for trying to convert him to Christianity in her concession to him.

He's also now under some corruption heat though, and it's quite likely that he'll lose the primary.

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« Reply #11 on: June 04, 2010, 07:31:45 AM »

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Will we ever cease to be a joke state? Sad
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« Reply #12 on: June 04, 2010, 08:07:18 AM »

When is there going to be an Indian officeholder who isn't a convert?

There have been some in NJ.
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« Reply #13 on: June 04, 2010, 11:38:46 AM »

Don't forget Congressman Dalip Saund; I'm not sure if he was Hindu or Christian though.
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« Reply #14 on: June 04, 2010, 11:45:18 AM »

He was Sikh.
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« Reply #15 on: June 04, 2010, 11:47:14 AM »

Politicians join Methodist churches because it has the tinge of evangelicalism while still being mainline and inoffensive. I don't put much stock in it.
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« Reply #16 on: June 04, 2010, 03:53:07 PM »

I hope he promptly gets voted out of office. Unfortunately he'll probably get a pat on the back for being anti-big government and someone not afraid to stand up Obama's NKVD.

I'll admit that's hyperbole, but when it comes to a state senator making racist comments us colored folk tend to get a bit riled up. Wink

Knotts won't be up for reelection until 2012, along with the rest of the State Senate.  He'll be 67 by the time of the next campaign season, and might decide to retire, especially if Nikki and the tea partiers do well this cycle.  Sanford tried to get him primaried back in 2008, with Katrina Shealy doing well enough to force him into a runoff which he won.  He'd be likely to get targeted by a Gov. Haley, even without this gaffe.  Heck, we could see Haley go up against Knotts in 2012 if she doesn't make it to the Governor's Mansion.
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« Reply #17 on: June 06, 2010, 10:17:46 PM »

Update

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In a move that should surprise no one, the Lexington County Republican Party condemned Knotts on Saturday.  (His Senate District is entirely within Lexington County.)  He wasn't a favorite of the apparatchiks that control it in the first place.  Shealy, the ex-county party chairwoman who he narrowly beat in the 2008 primary has vowed to run against him in 2012, but she likely was planning on running in 2012 anyway.  In any case, with redistricting between now and then, she might not be able to run against him.
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« Reply #18 on: June 07, 2010, 12:16:25 PM »

Politicians like that just ruin our states image. I don't understand how they don't seem to have any sense. I can easily disagree with practically every last one of his positions but all i have to do is point to these ridiculous comments. What a disgrace.  

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« Reply #19 on: June 07, 2010, 07:58:43 PM »

It gets worse......

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« Reply #20 on: June 07, 2010, 08:29:23 PM »
« Edited: June 07, 2010, 08:37:11 PM by Schroeder »

Politicians join Methodist churches because it has the tinge of evangelicalism while still being mainline and inoffensive. I don't put much stock in it.

Hmm? Haley got married to her Methodist husband in a Methodist church eight years before she ran for office. Granted joining your spouse's religion doesn't always indicate genuine belief, but it doesn't seem to be political to me.

Anyway, the deputy speaker of the state house here, Upendra Chikuvula, is a Hindu.
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« Reply #21 on: June 07, 2010, 08:32:50 PM »


He kind of has a point actually even though it's making it very crassly and idiotically. Haley has been known to attend Sikh temples and take her kids there, along with Methodist churches. She kind of is trying to hide exclusively behind the Methodist side and claim to be that when all signs show she hasn't exactly abandoned Sikhism. Now one may certainly not agree that a "good Christian" should be governor (Wonder if he considers Sanford a "good Christian" after what he did.) but being dishonest about one's religion like that is a somewhat valid point.

Now of course bringing up the point about her father in a turban, and being at war with "foreign countries" is simply beyond idiotic. Wonder what he'd say about someone who has family in Canada, which is a "foreign country".
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« Reply #22 on: June 07, 2010, 09:42:43 PM »

Now one may certainly not agree that a "good Christian" should be governor (Wonder if he considers Sanford a "good Christian" after what he did.) but being dishonest about one's religion like that is a somewhat valid point.

I doubt Knotts thinks Sanford is a good anything.  They loathe each other politically, and the ruckus Knotts raised when Sanford went incommunicado was a major factor in exposing that Sanford had been hiking on the Argentinian Trail, tho I don't think Knotts knew that was where Sanford had gone.
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« Reply #23 on: June 08, 2010, 11:21:45 AM »


Pretty sure Haley was, too.
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