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Gohmert was 1 of 4 who voted against Lynching as a Hate Crime
FEB 2020
Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert one of just four votes against bill to make lynching a federal hate crime
House voted 410-4 on historic Emmett Till Antilynching Act, 120 years after first effort to enact a federal ban.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2020/02/26/texas-rep-louie-gohmert-one-of-just-four-votes-against-bill-to-make-lynching-a-federal-hate-crime/%3foutputType=amp
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I had to look at the calendar and see if it was 2020 or 1920 when I saw that vote," said Democrat Hank Gilbert, a Tyler businessman and rancher hoping to unseat Gohmert in November. It is unconscionable that a sitting congressman would not vote to make lynching a federal crime.
East Texas, like Dallas, has an infamous history of racially motivated killings. In 1998, three white men in Jasper south of Gohmerts district kidnapped James Byrd Jr., 49. One of the men had a tattoo of a black man hanging from a tree, They chained Byrd to a pickup truck and dragged him three miles.
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Democrat Hank Gilbert
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/amp/Tyler-Democrat-Hank-Gilbert-s-campaign-manager-15437098.php
Tyler Democrat Hank Gilberts campaign manager injured in scuffle at Sunday protest
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Hank Gilbert Twitter
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Hank Gilbert Facebook
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Drum
(9,099 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)I wish him a long, painful, and unsuccessful hospitalization.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)will he start taking hydroxychloroquine?
Budi
(15,325 posts)at least there is someone else to vote for (even if its a Dem), if Gohmert cannot fulfil his campaign duties, should it come to that.
With only 3 months before election, Gohmert should prob start the hydroxy treatments right away.
😚
#GoodLuckLouie
NCjack
(10,279 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Aristus
(66,294 posts)Not just because of the potential side effects. If he takes hydroxychloroquine and recovers from COVID-19, he's going to going around trumpeting that the treatment works, which will just muddy the waters still further.
I'm always having to tell patients demanding antibiotics for a viral infection that it won't help. They tell me they received antibiotics for a viral infection before, and they got better. I tell them you got better on your own, as you do with a viral infection, and you thought it was the antibiotics that did it.
The last thing we need at a time like this is more medical misinformation.
And that goes double for demon sperm...
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)brooklynite
(94,378 posts)In what should be an absolutely safe R+25 District, Gohmert has only $62,000 cash on hand, compared to $148,000 for Gilbert.
https://www.fec.gov/data/elections/house/TX/01/2020/
Budi
(15,325 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)A worthy twitter thread
https://mobile.twitter.com/KFaulders/status/1288494359579680775