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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCalvert County (MD) Commissioner compares David Hogg to Hitler, posts conspiracy theories.
Evan Slaughenhoupt is the President of the Board of County Commissioners for Calvert County, Maryland. (The Great Mills High School shooting last week occurred in adjacent St. Mary's County).
http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/36loc/cal/leg/html/msa15465.html
Commissioner Slaughenhoupt's personal Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/evan.slaughenhoupt
His recent postings regarding David Hogg:
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Lay it all on the line to protect the victimizers.
elleng
(130,861 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,166 posts)Your county deserves better.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)elleng
(130,861 posts)Steny Hoyer is our member of Congress.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)I am from Calvert County and a great deal of my family still live there. I am not a Klanner and neither are they.
You paint an entire county based on one schmuck commissioner.
As another poster has noted Hoyer is the Rep for the area and Maryland Senate President Thomas Miller, a Dem, has been sent to Annapolis from the same seat since 1975.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)That is how repugs win some seats, no party ID, tone down their language for broader appeal.
EVAN K. SLAUGHENHOUPT, JR., President, Board of County Commissioners (Republican)
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)elleng
(130,861 posts)Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)elleng
(130,861 posts)However, the documentary clip was taken out of context. As Hogg has said in multiple interviews, and has been corroborated by multiple witnesses, Hogg was sitting in class when the shooting began:
His father worked in law enforcement, and taught him about weapons and how to handle them. So when Hogg heard a pop while sitting in an AP environmental science class around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, he told his teacher it sounded strangely like a gunshot. But there had been a fire drill that very morning and talk of a Code Red exercise to prepare for an active shooter. This must just be a surprise drill, he reasoned.
And then the fire alarm sounded. Dutifully acting on it, Hogg and other students tried to exit the building. A janitor Hogg doesnt know his name but calls him an angel knew where the shots were coming from and sent the students back. Then a culinary arts teacher, Ashley Kurth, pulled Hogg and others inside, locked the door, and made them hide in a closet. Checking Twitter and Instagram, Hogg whos an editor at the schools TV station found the news that the shooting was real and ongoing.
The shots continued for what felt like an eternity. Hogg considered the possibility that he would not live to see the end of the day.
Hogg returned to his high school later that day, in the evening, specifically to document the aftermath of the shooting he had just experienced:
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)David Hogg had 17 classmates and friends gunned down in less than seven minutes. That's what's bothering the likes of Slaughenhoupt more than anything: He's a survivor of a massacre, and denying this experience puts you on the side of the killers. The only thing Slaughenhopt can hope to do is foment a desperate lie about Hogg.
murielm99
(30,730 posts)I am so sick of these people. We allow people to shoot kids, then pick on them for defending themselves and looking for solutions?
procon
(15,805 posts)As the OP, you made a considerable effort to post multiple examples of Republican conspiracy theories and the horrendous lies they are using to bash an 18 year old survivor of a mass murder shooting spree. You dropped this off like brick without a word of opposition, omitting even one sentence of criticism or a link to truthful accounts that easily refuted the attacks on this wonderfully articulate, brave, strong and brilliant young man.
Other people have stepped into the breach and supplied the missing, but vital information needed to support him and validate his cause, which is also our cause célèbre as Democrats. Sometimes we need to remember what's really important.
elleng
(130,861 posts)Now I'll try to inform other Marylanders.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,166 posts)Courthouse
175 Main St., Prince Frederick, MD 20678
(410) 535-1600, ext. 2203; (301) 855-1243, ext. 2203
e-mail: slaughek@co.cal.md.us
fax: (410) 535-5594; tdd: (410) 535-6355
I suggest you posit your criticism directly to him in a rational, reasonable and respectable (yet firm) manner.
procon
(15,805 posts)facilitating his dishonesty. My criticism is directed appropriately.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,166 posts)yardwork
(61,588 posts)I'm sure that the raised fists are triggering the Trumpster snowflakes, though.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Terrified of everything and terrified more than anything else of changing their minds. If they changed their minds (about, for instance, the need for sensible gun safety measures), it would mean they were GASP! wrong about something and therefore imperfect creatures.
I just can't imagine what it must be like to be so insecure and so afraid -- of everything and everyone -- all of the time. Not a little afraid, or occasionally, but constant cowardice from birth. The list of things they're afraid of? Black people, brown people, people who speak a language other than English, immigrants, educated people, people with different sexual attractions, people with different genitals, people with the same genitals, people having any kind of sex at all, people with a different religion, people with the same but slightly different religion, people with no religion, God(s) that they can't be sure exist yet love them (while simultaneously wanting to send them to Hell for eternity), being disrespected, people in different socioeconomic groups, people in the same socioeconomic groups, people who have traveled extensively, people who haven't traveled much but went to different places, people who are afraid of the police, the actual police, government employees in general, unions consisting entirely of workers exactly like themselves, and on and on and on.
Nipples. They're afraid of the existence of nipples. Let that sink in. The only thing that scares them more than nipples are teenagers who aren't afraid of their bullshit.
And then they come up with irrational "solutions" to nonexistent threats based entirely around panicked fear. Invasions, bombings in lieu of invasions, giant walls in the desert, enabling police states (which they're also afraid of), mass deportations, racism, segregation, tax cuts for billionaires, concealed guns, openly carried guns, military grade guns for defending their crappy apartments, leaving their guns unsecured around small children for "emergencies," banning unfamliar music or frightening video games. And on and on.
David Hogg must be a deep state crisis actor, and at the very least must not have even been there. Guns in schools would save lives, like in at Great Mills High School last week (where, as it turns out, the shooter committed suicide and "a good guy with a gun" didn't accomplish a thing). Someone said "clip" instead of magazine, or "democracy" instead of "democratic republic" and, therefore, we can stop listening to anyone making sense.
farmbo
(3,121 posts)Just like the case filed by Seth Richs family against Infowars and Fox.
In most states its called Tortious Infliction of Mental Distress although since this Ahole is a government official a federal court 42 USC 1983 Action may be possible.
File the case in Parkland, Fla since he published his lies on the internet.
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)But his sister was next to her friend who was shot.
bottomofthehill
(8,327 posts)From my cold dead hand NRA routine with the musket and the the AR 15 years
struggle4progress
(118,273 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,166 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,166 posts)Twitter page is here:
https://twitter.com/EvanSlaug
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,166 posts)Looks like someone called him on his bullshit.
Amazing what some people--including elected officials--will keep on their personal social media pages in full public settings.