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CajunBlazer

(5,648 posts)
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 11:01 PM Jan 2017

My email to Sheila Butt

She is the Tennessee State Representative who authored a bill which would forbid food stamp recipients from using them to purchase ice cream, cake, cookies, etc. And yes she seems to be a racist who represents a gerrymandered Tennessee district and is currently Republican floor leader in the Tennessee House of Representatives. Ms. Butt is an appropriate name.

I think we should all email her @: rep.sheila.butt@capitol.tn.gov

My email to Representative Sheila Butt:

I just read about your bill which would forbid food stamp recipients from using them to purchase ice cream, cake, cookies, etc. That’s right up there with your Tweet about the need to establish a NAAWP (National Association for the Advancement of White People), but I think that David Duke beat you to it. Don’t you realize that you are making a laughing stock of the State of Tennessee.

By the way, based on your latest pictures it appears that you need to take your own advice and stay away from the ice cream, cake, cookies, etc.

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My email to Sheila Butt (Original Post) CajunBlazer Jan 2017 OP
Ouch! 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2017 #1
Was I too tough on her? CajunBlazer Jan 2017 #6
She had it coming! 50 Shades Of Blue Jan 2017 #12
If you check her out on the interwebs, she appears horrible. HassleCat Jan 2017 #2
I'm in the county next to her- I sent her an email redstateblues Jan 2017 #3
Wow, just what we thought. Rex Jan 2017 #4
No exceptions for birthdays, anniversaries etc I bet? BSdetect Jan 2017 #5
The United States has become GREAT at being mean spirited. grantcart Jan 2017 #7
It's so mean spirited. We all know it's to punish poor people. Her bill doesn't just disallow treats KittyWampus Jan 2017 #8
Here is my email to Ms. Butts Chasstev365 Jan 2017 #9
I like your email better than mine CajunBlazer Jan 2017 #10
Thanks! I'm so glad you posted this! Chasstev365 Jan 2017 #11
Keep going, Sheila... and no alcohol, not even wine in church keithbvadu2 Jan 2017 #13
Yep.... Just keep voting Republican world wide wally Jan 2017 #14
Voting Republician? CajunBlazer Jan 2017 #15
She totally needs to hook up with a guy named Head KamaAina Jan 2017 #16
I think if she hooked up with a guy named Charles Big... CajunBlazer Jan 2017 #17

redstateblues

(10,565 posts)
3. I'm in the county next to her- I sent her an email
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 11:09 PM
Jan 2017

Reminding her that if she claims to be a Christian she is commanded to love her neighbor as her self. Indeed she is one of the reasons our state ranks low in nearly everything.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
4. Wow, just what we thought.
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 11:13 PM
Jan 2017

So she is a know-nothing control freak. Great, one of the worst kinds. The GOP, always with the anti-humanity thing. As if being poor is not a big enough stigma.

BSdetect

(8,998 posts)
5. No exceptions for birthdays, anniversaries etc I bet?
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 11:17 PM
Jan 2017

Like anti-abortion no exceptions for rape or incest.

Keep out of our private life repugnants.

What an idiot?

grantcart

(53,061 posts)
7. The United States has become GREAT at being mean spirited.
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 11:32 PM
Jan 2017

It is an accolade that I am truly tired of winning.
 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
8. It's so mean spirited. We all know it's to punish poor people. Her bill doesn't just disallow treats
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 11:44 PM
Jan 2017

She wants to fine people who can't afford food a $1000 if they buy something like ice cream!

So maybe they can forgo paying rent for a month or two as well as eating.

People in Red States are going to have to band together and take care of each other.

Cause Republican controlled states are going to get worse before they get better.

Chasstev365

(5,191 posts)
9. Here is my email to Ms. Butts
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 11:45 PM
Jan 2017

Dear Ms. Butts:

I am guessing you are a good Christian who reads the Bible. Do you have children?

Your bill that would fine anyone on welfare $1000.00 for buying cake or other desserts while on food stamps truly show your level of hatred for the poor. There is no topic in the New Testiment that Jesus Christ discusses more than helping the poor. If you were Catholic and I was a priest, I would deny you communion for having such contempt for the poor. Have you forgotten, "Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me?"

What really bothers me though is that you be would be willing to tell some child they don't deserve a birthday cake because their parents need welfare to survive, yet it is GOP policies that have denied people a living wage and have sent so many jobs overseas and have caused the factories to close and relocate to the third world.

F YOU and your self-righteousness! You should resign in embarrassment!


CajunBlazer

(5,648 posts)
15. Voting Republician?
Sun Jan 15, 2017, 11:16 PM
Jan 2017

Ms. Butt (a perfect name) is the Republican floor leader in the Tennessee House of Representatives. She is the essence of deplorablability.

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