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Showing Original Post only (View all)To answer your question, Allen, it's because you're an asshole. [View all]
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-29/why-did-florida-fire-allen-westWhy Did Florida Fire Allen West?
By Michael C. Bender on November 29, 2012
Allen West is still surprised that Floridas voters have kicked him out of Congress after only two years. Why would anyone want to get rid of a person that is born and raised in the inner city, third of four generations in the militaryjust an American success story? asks West, from the living room of his Palm Beach Gardens home overlooking a pool and golf course. Im not some guy that came from a rich political family or anything like that, he says. Im just an everyday guy, but I have a passion for my country.
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Really?
You call 80 of your colleagues Communists, you tell key Democrats to "get the hell out of America", you go off on an email rant against a colleague by calling her "vile, despicable and not a lady," you say that Obama voters are "a threat to the gene pool", you say that the sole Muslim member of Congress whom you've never even met "represents the antithesis of the principles upon which this nation was founded," you claim that people with "Coexist" bumper stickers want to give the country away, and you failed to offer a single meaningful piece of legislation in your two years of office.
I'm so glad my state removed this cancer to its legislative delegation. You have no idea.
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To answer your question, Allen, it's because you're an asshole. [View all]
Tommy_Carcetti
Nov 2012
OP
He's classic "get a free pension with health care" disorder, he did'nt want a second term.
xtraxritical
Nov 2012
#50
If you follow West's logic about being born and in the inner city, military stint, just a regular
Tutonic
Nov 2012
#6
KNR...I think you should cut and paste your rant as a letter to Business Week
joeybee12
Nov 2012
#27
Perhaps he should be provided with video of the things he said during his term, and then he
hrmjustin
Nov 2012
#30
Sadly yes, but he might be the kind of guy that would say there is nothing wrong with what i said.
hrmjustin
Nov 2012
#51
And didn't he start his campaign by saying he had a higher security clearance than the president?
rocktivity
Nov 2012
#40