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hue

(4,949 posts)
Fri May 2, 2014, 11:44 AM May 2014

Worthless distraction? State GOP says “no” to right to secede

Source: FOX 6 Now Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Assembly Republicans are urging delegates at the GOP state convention to reject a tea party-backed resolution calling on lawmakers to affirm Wisconsin’s right to secede.

Fifty of the Assembly’s 69 Republicans, including Speaker Robin Vos and Rep. John Nygren, co-chairman of the powerful Joint Finance Committee, sent a letter Friday to delegates calling the resolution a worthless distraction. The letter goes on to call the secessionist movement giving up on the American idea and asks how different the world would be today if Republican President Abraham Lincoln had allowed the southern states to leave the union. The letter adds that Republicans can’t win elections on a platform that includes secession.

Read more: http://fox6now.com/2014/05/02/worthless-distraction-state-gop-says-no-to-right-to-secede/



Delegates vote on this POS on Sat. (tomorrow).
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Worthless distraction? State GOP says “no” to right to secede (Original Post) hue May 2014 OP
Is there something in the water in Wisconsin? TreasonousBastard May 2014 #1
..... trusty elf May 2014 #2
I have said from day one Teaparty hates America randys1 May 2014 #3
I hope it's the centerpiece of their platform. Scuba May 2014 #4
It can still be part of their platform without it being in writing. LiberalFighter May 2014 #11
They miss the good old days of slavery Rocknrule May 2014 #5
And here's the bottom line for the opposition of the "leaders" soon to be known as RINOs... DonViejo May 2014 #6
That tea party thorn will continue to be a pain in the GOP's side. tofuandbeer May 2014 #7
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article alp227 May 2014 #8
I was kind of hoping joe_stampingbull May 2014 #9
Thank God someone's come to their senses. nt Hekate May 2014 #10

randys1

(16,286 posts)
3. I have said from day one Teaparty hates America
Fri May 2, 2014, 11:50 AM
May 2014

and they do. they want to start a new country where their religion and ONLY their religion is the rule of the day

LiberalFighter

(50,504 posts)
11. It can still be part of their platform without it being in writing.
Sat May 3, 2014, 04:14 PM
May 2014

And we should point it out over and over.

Rocknrule

(5,697 posts)
5. They miss the good old days of slavery
Fri May 2, 2014, 11:52 AM
May 2014

when they didn't have communist socialist things like "minimum wage"

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
6. And here's the bottom line for the opposition of the "leaders" soon to be known as RINOs...
Fri May 2, 2014, 12:01 PM
May 2014
The letter adds that Republicans can’t win elections on a platform that includes secession.

joe_stampingbull

(165 posts)
9. I was kind of hoping
Fri May 2, 2014, 10:41 PM
May 2014

that they would vote for the secession resolution to show the whole world what a bunch of crackpot loonies they really are.

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