VA Speaker And Ex-ALEC Chair Berates Woman — ‘I’m Not Speaking In Little Enough Words For You To

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

Understand’

In an exchange caught on camera, Howell berates the group’s executive director Anna Scholl, mocking the group’s website and her. Howell criticizes the Washington Post’s article about the group’s as “full of half-truths or un-truths.”

In a failed attempt to back up his accusation, Howell notes that while the Commonwealth paid about $230,000 on ALEC-related expenses, it spent even more on travel for the same and other legislators to attend conferences by the bipartisan National Conference of State Legislators.

When by Scholl pressed as to how omission of that irrelevant detail constituted an inaccuracy, Howell berated her:

I guess I’m not speaking in little enough words for you to understand.

When Scholl responded to the slight, telling him “I’m a smart girl, actually I went to the University of Virginia,” more than capable of understanding polysyllabic works, Howell curtly replied, “We’ll good for you.”

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/04/12/463774/va-speaker-and-ex-alec-chair-berates-woman-im-not-speaking-in-little-enough-words-for-you-to-understand/

[Dawson Leery]

1. The Republican War On Women continues.

[PA Democrat]

2. Kudos to Scholl for rising above his personal attack.

Howell came off very badly by making it personal when he could not refute the facts.

[Iris]

3. Nice. See what happens when you force these bugs to crawl out from under their rocks?

Keep it up ALEC. You're toast.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. That organization is a cancer in our society. nt

[Iris]

5. Yes. And thank God it's seeing the light of day

and everyone knows.

It is absolutely frightening to think that an organization comprised of big business is writing laws that are not about business.

[Uncle Joe]

6. Howell's body language is defensive and active in trying to process his lie, (cover story.)

Right off the bat he grabs the podium to maintain a solid connection to reality, crosses his arms and starts twiddling his thumbs for inner emotional support.

His harsh insult is a venting of the pent up stress from needing to obfuscate the truth.

Thanks for the thread, Guy Whitey Corngood.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

7. She's good!! LOL! nt

[sabrina 1]

8. Mockery, such a rightwing tool always when they have nothing else.

Pretty much their trademark.

[PatSeg]

9. Yet another flashback to the fifties

Do these people not realize that they are on camera most of the time?

[horseshoecrab]

10. VA Speaker Howell is a worm!

Scholl is very, very good. More power to her in VA! Howell thought he could throw her off by angering her.

Screw him. There are more of us.

Yes indeedy... to Ms. Scholl!


horseshoecrab

[Octafish]

11. What a condescending so-and-so.

Hope the voters of Virginia -- and Ms. Scholl's fellow alums -- remember in November.

[jsmirman]

13. What a charming man

I'm sure he thinks he has good manners.

[Octafish]

18. Odd isn't it? People who chew with their mouth open and have no clue?

It's difficult to imagine what monsters think.



Witches' Sabbath (The Great He-Goat) by Francisco Goya

[tabbycat31]

16. I believe he's not up this November

VA is like New Jersey and we have state level elections in odd years.

[Octafish]

17. Thank you. The guy is exceptionally vile.

"Ronald Raygun Day" isn't the worst of it:

http://e-lobbyist.com/gaits/sponsor/696?sort=asc&order=Bill+Number&page=1

[Warpy]

12. Howell is like most of them, ruthless but not very intelligent

and I'm afraid this shows him up rather badly.

[onethatcares]

14. ah, instead of answering,

I'll just belittle the person.

Yeah, there's a guy that is full of himself

[longship]

15. What the fuck is it going to take?

How far does the Republican Party have to go before the electorate (so to speak) realize the extent to which that they have totally jumped off the deep end?

Religion and democracy are like oil and water. How far can the Republicans go before the electorate realizes that if they vote for a Republican, they are voting against the nation's interest?

What is it going to take?