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Pennsylvania Republicans cut a lawmaker's mic after he said the state GOP is '100% white'
Posted by: p8712
Date: June 10, 2021 04:31PM
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A Pennsylvania Democrat had his speech cut short on Wednesday after he said the state's Republican lawmakers were "100% white."
The heated moment came during a debate over a Republican proposal to regulate the disposal of fetal remains, one that Democratic lawmakers argued would force women to bury or cremate a miscarried fetus. As USA Today reported, a number of Democratic women spoke against the measure — which Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf has promised to veto — by highlighting their own traumatic experiences with miscarriages.
Rep. Brian Sims, a Democrat from Philadelphia, lamented the fact that his colleagues were forced to share such testimony in the state's Republican-controlled House.
"This is just another act in a political theater that has plagued this chamber for far too long," Sims said. "We are a legislature that has met more to remove mask mandates, strip executive emergency powers, and overturn free and fair elections than we have to make strategic investments in Pennsylvania's women, children, and families."
Sims punctuated his remarks with an attack on his Republican colleagues and the demographic makeup of their caucus. The bill, he said, was just another line item in "a grossly, predictably misogynistic agenda — an agenda pursued by a party that is 100% white, in a chamber that is 70% male."
House Majority Leader Bryan Cutler, a Republican, then cut Sims' microphone. "That's enough," he said amid booing from other GOP lawmakers.
Sims was unrepentant.
"Your boos mean nothing to me," he said. "I've seen what you cheer for."
Re: Pennsylvania Republicans cut a lawmaker's mic after he said the state GOP is '100% white'
Posted by: pdq
Date: June 10, 2021 04:52PM
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Re: Pennsylvania Republicans cut a lawmaker's mic after he said the state GOP is '100% white'
Posted by: wave rider
Date: June 10, 2021 05:14PM
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Re: Pennsylvania Republicans cut a lawmaker's mic after he said the state GOP is '100% white'
Posted by: Blankity Blank
Date: June 10, 2021 08:44PM
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p8712
Sims was unrepentant.
"Your boos mean nothing to me," he said. "I've seen what you cheer for."
Re: Pennsylvania Republicans cut a lawmaker's mic after he said the state GOP is '100% white'
Posted by: Acer
Date: June 10, 2021 09:36PM
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pdq
Truth hurts sometimes.
Re: Pennsylvania Republicans cut a lawmaker's mic after he said the state GOP is '100% white'
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Date: June 11, 2021 01:53AM
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Re: Pennsylvania Republicans cut a lawmaker's mic after he said the state GOP is '100% white'
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Date: June 11, 2021 03:46AM
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Re: Pennsylvania Republicans cut a lawmaker's mic after he said the state GOP is '100% white'
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Date: June 11, 2021 09:32AM
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Re: Pennsylvania Republicans cut a lawmaker's mic after he said the state GOP is '100% white'
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Date: June 11, 2021 12:49PM
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Re: Pennsylvania Republicans cut a lawmaker's mic after he said the state GOP is '100% white'
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Date: June 11, 2021 12:50PM
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Truth hurts sometimes.
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