Rep. Rogers Johnson’s Response to Rep. Peter Sullivan on Howard Dean

[Sullivan 4 Congress]

http://www.politicsnh.com/press_releases/2005/August/8_11nhgop.htm

Stratham – Since Rep. Peter Sullivan is a Democrat, it is impossible for him to not to have heard the original remarks made by then presidential candidate Howard Dean. Perhaps his democrat ears could not comprehend them. As an African-American, I understand exactly what Gov. Dean was trying to say.


In November of 2003, presidential candidate Howard Dean said, “I still want to be the candidate for guys with Con federate flags in their pickup trucks.” My recent activities in Laconia bear out the fact that this type of thought does not belong in New Hampshire. No democrat, republican or independent can say otherwise nor defend what he has said. This is the message NH GOP Chair Henderson was conveying.

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Gee, Rogers, was it something I said?

Rogers Johnson is an African-American right winger and a former member of the leadership team of disgraced former House Speaker Gene Chandler. I guess his race is supposed to give him street cred on this issue, but I prefer to look at his extreme voting record and his poor choice of political cronies as a better indication of his core values.

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1. "No democrat, republican or independent can say otherwise nor defend what

he has said."

As a Democrat, I can explain it to you Rep Johnson.

What he was referring to was the inexplicable way that "guys with confederate flags in their pickup trucks" will vote agianst their own self-interest as long as repukes couch their message to divide those who have more in common than they have in disagreement. You see there are lot of economically depressed poor white folk who vote for policies that are antithetical to their healt and well-being because some repuke says the Democrats are gonna take away your flag or your gun or your Bible. Rep Johnson you know that's a lie, and you KNOW what Dean meant, but feiging ignorance to score political hitpoints is republic politics 101 so I don't need to spell it out further, do I?

And in case that is too long for you here is the Reader's Digest version of what Dean said/meant;

If you want to live like a republican, vote for a Democrat.