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Budi

(15,325 posts)
Wed Jul 29, 2020, 12:43 PM Jul 2020

Gohmert does have a Dem challenger. Gohmert also voted for Lynching...

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 Gohmert’s 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 Gilbert’s campaign manager injured in scuffle at Sunday protest

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Hank Gilbert Twitter

https://mobile.twitter.com/Hank4Texas?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor


Hank Gilbert Facebook
https://m.facebook.com/Hank4Texas/

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Gohmert does have a Dem challenger. Gohmert also voted for Lynching... (Original Post) Budi Jul 2020 OP
I just received a news alert on my phone that he's just tested positive for CV19 Drum Jul 2020 #1
Karma, baby. lagomorph777 Jul 2020 #9
Isn't he in a safe seat . . . Iliyah Jul 2020 #2
Gohmert's seat is safe Red, but should his Covid become a health issue, Budi Jul 2020 #3
He should call WH for a free supply. They have millions of tablets. NCjack Jul 2020 #6
Take double! soothsayer Jul 2020 #7
That's not advisable. Aristus Jul 2020 #11
His seat is safe, but his ass is not. lagomorph777 Jul 2020 #10
Interesting campaign financials... brooklynite Jul 2020 #4
Hank Gilbert's day just got a little bit better Budi Jul 2020 #5
Gohmert also recently called for abolishing the Democratic Party Budi Jul 2020 #8
 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
3. Gohmert's seat is safe Red, but should his Covid become a health issue,
Wed Jul 29, 2020, 01:05 PM
Jul 2020

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

Aristus

(66,294 posts)
11. That's not advisable.
Wed Jul 29, 2020, 01:37 PM
Jul 2020

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...

brooklynite

(94,378 posts)
4. Interesting campaign financials...
Wed Jul 29, 2020, 01:12 PM
Jul 2020

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/

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