Texas congressman says remarks on Clintons,

[HAB911]

Vince Foster were "a step too far"

U.S. Rep. Pete Olson on Tuesday walked back comments he had made on local radio in which he accused — without evidence — former President Bill Clinton of admitting to the murder of deceased aide Vincent Foster.

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/06/20/congressman-says-comments-about-clintons-were-step-too-far/

[spanone]

1. sick s.o.b.

[nikibatts]

2. No, the people who believed him are the really sick ones.

[Catherine Vincent]

3. Idiot republicans

There will always be a percentage of repukes to believe every lie about the Clintons. It's why a bunch of these nuts are still in office.

[gratuitous]

4. So Olson will be apologizing to the Clintons, then?

Yeah, no. Instead, he pushed even farther: "Most Americans understand this and loathe the Clintons for continuing to live under a different set of rules than the rest of us.” But her e-mails, right Pete?

[MagickMuffin]

7. "A different set of rules" OH Projection much

Petey, take a deep look into the SOUL of YOUR PARTY!!!

trump'd has set a new standard for "A different set of rules" and your party is going along with it just fine.

[Tanuki]

5. His home district of Sugarland has an infamous history of

slavery and subsequently turning sugar plantations into private prison farms after Emancipation so that African Americans could be incarcerated and exploited, often for trivial or non-existent offenses.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood/fortbend/news/amp/Sugar-Land-prison-cemetery-recalls-era-of-forced-6575159.php

...."The same constitutional amendment that ended slavery also allowed forced labor to continue, if used as punishment. Many historians have argued that because so many of the men who were imprisoned, often on trumped-up charges, were African-American, and because some of the same plantations that had depended on slaves benefited from convict leasing contracts, the practice of convict leasing was in some ways an extension of slavery.

"These people were enslaved twice," Moore said.
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As early as the 1870s, convict labor was used to cultivate the land," explained Chris Florance, director of public information and education for the Texas Historical Commission. Two sugar-cane plantation owners whose names are sprinkled over city landmarks today, Littleberry Ambrose Ellis and Edward H. Cunningham, leased convict labor from the state to work the land under the new post-emancipation arrangement. It was Ellis who built the Imperial Mill in 1883.

Conditions for working the land were so bad that Sugar Land earned the nickname, "Hell-hole on the Brazos." Accounts describe prisoners laboring in wet fields of sugar cane, often succumbing to epidemics in the swampy, mosquito-laden landscape."........

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[Archae]

8. That was 140+ years ago.

All those who were responsible for that are dead.

Let's look at now.

It sounds like one thing they still have kept is their fundys, fundamentalist Christians.

These are the people radicals like the Congressman can count on.

Hate radio and faux "news" also dominate the area.

[Gothmog]

6. Pete Olson is an idiot