I cannot believe this!

[SixShooter]

Corrine Brown kicked off the floor? For speaking her mind and saying she was concerned about the disenfranchisement of voters....her views and her words have now been expunged from the Congressional Record...ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THIS IS AN ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA!! AND BECAUSE SHE DOESNT HOLD THE VIEWS OF THE ADMINISTRATION SHE ISNT ALLOWED TO SAY WHAT SHE FEELS?!?!?!?!? ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME??



A FREAKING DICTATORSHIP! THIS IS WHAT THE HELL THIS COUNTRY IS TURNING INTO....DAMMIT im pissed...DAMN



Thank you CORRINE BROWN for making the people of Florida Proud!!!!

[progressivebydesign]

1. I haven't seen the official link for this.. can they DO that???? N/T

[Cleita]

4. They showed the clip on CNN a short time back.

I don't think the transcript will be up yet but you could give it a try a little later.

[Warpy]

14. She made the mistake of reminding the House Thugs

that their little tin Jesus in the White House had stolen the election, and that people were not about to let it happen again.

Pubbies just hate hearing the truth from anyone. That she's black and female just added to their indignation.

[Name removed]

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[arcane1]

24. why not get emotional?

Some of us get pissed off at news like this! :grr:

[PCIntern]

2. they steal a Federal election

and you can't believe that they'll expunge the lady from FL? Hell, they expunged thousands of votes and the democratic process.

[Mz Pip]

3. Geez,

and the RW apologists just about give a ticker tape parade to Cheney for telling a Senator to go fuck himself.

We've somehow got to take back Congress or there will just be more and more of this.

MzPip
:dem:

[maggrwaggr]

7. yup, we have a rubber-stamp congress right now

enabling the fascist Bushco to do whatever crimes they want.

THEY ALL MUST GO. EVERY ONE OF THEM. EVEN THE DEM ENABLERS WHO DON'T FIGHT THEM TOOTH AND NAIL

[gratuitous]

8. Yup, they can dish it out

But they sure can't take it. I have a feeling that Rep. Brown will be back. I'm not so sure I can say the same for the some of the vermin who voted against her.

[Wind Dancer]

5. I called her office today

to express my outrage.

http://www.house.gov/corrinebrown/press108/pr040715.htm

"Striking my words from the House floor is just one more example of the Republican Party's attempt to try and cover up what happened during the 2000 election and of their activities this year in the state of Florida in preparation for stealing this year’s election as well. What is the Republican Party so afraid of? Let me tell you what I'm afraid of: another stolen election and four more years of the Bush administration. When the words of Corrine Brown are stricken from the floor, so is the voice of her 600,000 constituents in Florida's third congressional district.

Let me refresh your memories of what occurred during the 2000 elections, in my district alone (Duval County) there were approximately 27,000 ballots that were spit out by faulty machines. A disproportionately large percentage of these votes came from City Council Districts 7, 8, 9 and 10, primarily African American residential areas. Even more disturbing to me was that the Supervisor of Elections’ office didn’t release these figures to local officials until after the 72 hour deadline had passed. As a result, there were no legal avenues to demand a recount.

Moreover, it often goes unpublished that Florida Governor Jeb Bush spent $4 million of taxpayer money to purge a list of suspected felons from the rolls across the state: but whether or not this list was accurate was of little importance to Governor Bush. Apparently, it was the responsibility of the accused citizen to correct his or her status. Only later did we learn that the reason many of the people were incorrectly purged (estimates go as high as 50-57,000) was merely because their name was the same as, or similar to, one of the purged felons. For this reason, during the 2000 elections, some of the local election supervisors went so far as to refuse to purge names from the list of their voter rolls because, they argued, 'they did not have faith in how the state compiled its list of disqualified voters.'

Moreover, as part of a grassroots effort to encourage voters, particularly minorities, to get out to the polls, I organize motor voter drives. Yet during the last election, many voters, especially African Americans, were wrongly purged from registration lists, and many who had signed up at state motor voter vehicle offices never had their voter registration fully processed. As a result, these voters were disenfranchised as well. It is for this reason that provisional balloting is so important (wherein if a voter has not re-registered after moving within the same county, he or she may cast a provisional ballot at the polling place of their current residence). Unfortunately, to this day, the state of Florida STILL does not completely follow through with provisional balloting because, in Florida, if one casts a provisional ballot in a voter precinct which is not their own, their vote will be discarded.

edited to add press link

[burrowowl]

9. I did too

and said she was right, it was a coup d'etat. Call you repreesentives and let them know how you feel!

[teach1st]

12. I just called her office, too.

To thank Congresswoman Brown for speaking out.

[ronnykmarshall]

18. Did the same.

I hope this story has legs.

[Cleita]

6. This really is bad.

I hope all you people with Repuke representatives vote against them this election. My rep Bill Thomas doesn't have anyone running against him so I'm thinking of writing one in.

[pnorman]

10. Can somebody provide the time and place?

This is news to me, and I'd like to have enough data to at least make a web-search on the matter.

pnorman

[shoelace414]

13. her speech has been expunged from the congressional record

[tom_paine]

17. Yep. Just the Soviets would have done.

Busheviks = Free-Market Bolsheviks.

And I HATE them for the Lying Tyrannical Thieves and Frauds the SAME as the SOVIETS!

:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[Beearewhyain]

11. I saw a clip of her on the floor on CNN

Called it like it is! Said the election was stolen, blacks were disenfranchised, and called the whole thing a "coup d'etat".

All I can say Corrine is :yourock:

[bobbieinok]

15. in one of the original reports about this there was a long

reference to this being a congressional procedural matter. If someone says something perceived as derogatory to another member or group of members, the target(s) can call for a vote to delete.

As I recall, she questioned the results of the voice vote, so it was done again. The 'republicans' were very loud, so she called for a paper vote.

Apparently in this procedure, if a member loses the vote the comment is withdrawn from the record and the member may not speak on the floor for the rest of the day.

Anyone remember this or have a link???

Some DUers posting thought that another dem make the same comment.....and it should continue (until all the dems were silenced, was my view of the results of such an action.

It might have made a point though.

The whole thing occurred during a c-spann broadcast of the congressional proceedings. There was a play-by-play DU report.

[tom_paine]

16. No, she is NOT an elected representative from the State of Florida

Not anymore. The Old American Republic is gone.

Corrien Brown is an Imperiasl Congresswoman from the Imperial Province of Florida.

As such, Emperor Bunnypants* can do whatever he wishes to her, whenever he wishes, withour fear of invetigation nor repirsal.

I think because of this, Corrine has NOTHING to lose, and if they antharx her or otherwise harm her there WILL be trouble!

She and all of us literally have NOTHING to lose.

She should say it AGAIN and AGAIN!

[lanparty]

28. Did she steal ...

... the secret plans to Emperor Shrubs new orbital battle platform??? Did she hide it in her Sony Aibo?????

;-)

[ronnykmarshall]

19. My letter to my Congressman and Senators

July 16, 2004

Dear Congressman Waxman,

As you are probably aware, Congresswoman Corrine Brown (D-Florida 3rd district) was kicked off the floor of Congress for speaking out against the Florida election of 2000.

Not only was she asked to leave the floor; her words were stricken from the official record.

What are the Republicans afraid of? The truth it sounds like.

Please stand up and fight for Congresswoman Brown and her people of her district. We cannot stand by and let the Republicans silence the voice of the people. Congresswoman Brown speaks the truth and for the people.

Isn’t it ironic that the Vice President can use profanity on the floor of the Senate and the GOP turns a blind eye and deaf ear, yet Corrine Brown speaks out and she is told to shut up.

Please speak out now!


Ronny K. Marshall

[ronnykmarshall]

20. Kick

More people need to get pissed.

[dave29]

22. I didn't think I could be more pissed

but they've done it again.

:mad:

[ronnykmarshall]

23. Call, write!

I wrote my congress critters.

[Unperson 309]

25. She's Angry NOW? Did she SIGN the request shown on F9/11?

No, she didn't, did she?

I applaud her anger, NOW, but I wonder....

Where was she, THEN?

Frankly, NONE of them are covered in glory.

309

[Unperson 309]

26. Replying to my OWN Post... It was SENATORS they needed

to sigh, right. If so I'm in error, she is a congresswoman.

My bad!

309

[lanparty]

27. She needs to be a little more careful ...

She should have used the passive tone "the election was stolen" instead of "YOU stole the election".